Lectures Delivered Before the Young Men's Christian Association, 1845-1846--1864-1865, Volumen3James Nisbet & Company, 1873 |
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... beautiful Amina for his wife , two hundred Arabian ladies met their death for grief . However , Amina was not permitted long to enjoy the happiness of being Abdallah's wife , for he shortly died , leaving to her charge an only son , a ...
... beautiful Amina for his wife , two hundred Arabian ladies met their death for grief . However , Amina was not permitted long to enjoy the happiness of being Abdallah's wife , for he shortly died , leaving to her charge an only son , a ...
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... beautiful book ; that the allusions to Scripture would have been more correct , and the details of scriptural facts would have been free from much of the absurdity which is found in them . However , whether he could or could not read ...
... beautiful book ; that the allusions to Scripture would have been more correct , and the details of scriptural facts would have been free from much of the absurdity which is found in them . However , whether he could or could not read ...
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... beautiful , and in a style far superior to that of any existing writer in Arabia . All were struck with their grandeur and sublimity . They made his fame as an author , and converted Lebid , the first poet of Arabia , by the mere beauty ...
... beautiful , and in a style far superior to that of any existing writer in Arabia . All were struck with their grandeur and sublimity . They made his fame as an author , and converted Lebid , the first poet of Arabia , by the mere beauty ...
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... beautiful in the extreme , and his address insinuating beyond any power of resistance . To this he added consummate eloquence - an eloquence that charmed and ravished all who heard it . Then his habits of meditativeness , his fancying ...
... beautiful in the extreme , and his address insinuating beyond any power of resistance . To this he added consummate eloquence - an eloquence that charmed and ravished all who heard it . Then his habits of meditativeness , his fancying ...
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... beautiful slave called Mary . His wife Hafsa detected him in crime with this slave . He swore a solemn oath to his wife that if she did not expose the crime he would never repeat it . Shortly after , however , he was found violating his ...
... beautiful slave called Mary . His wife Hafsa detected him in crime with this slave . He swore a solemn oath to his wife that if she did not expose the crime he would never repeat it . Shortly after , however , he was found violating his ...
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Página 240 - And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. 42 And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.
Página 236 - But now I have' written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Página 263 - All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
Página 238 - For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God ; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre ; but a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate...
Página 238 - Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
Página 240 - But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles ; but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him ; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.
Página 147 - I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Página 239 - For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel ; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness ; whose end shall be according to their works.
Página 283 - And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience ; .and patience, experience; and experience, hope: and hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
Página 174 - God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.