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Página 12
... night threatened to be very uncomfortable , for the wind rose , and there was great appearance of a heavy rain , and the wild beasts are so very numerous in the neigh- bourhood , that I should have been under the necessity of climbing ...
... night threatened to be very uncomfortable , for the wind rose , and there was great appearance of a heavy rain , and the wild beasts are so very numerous in the neigh- bourhood , that I should have been under the necessity of climbing ...
Página 13
... night . Finding that I was very hungry , she said she would procure me something to eat . She accordingly went out , and returned in a short time with a very fine fish ; which , having caused to be half - broiled upon some embers , she ...
... night . Finding that I was very hungry , she said she would procure me something to eat . She accordingly went out , and returned in a short time with a very fine fish ; which , having caused to be half - broiled upon some embers , she ...
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... night ; but before he arrived his mother expired . No permanent impression seems , however , to have been made on his mind by this most trying event ; and whatever remorse he might have felt at the moment , he soon relapsed into his ...
... night ; but before he arrived his mother expired . No permanent impression seems , however , to have been made on his mind by this most trying event ; and whatever remorse he might have felt at the moment , he soon relapsed into his ...
Página 20
... night , fixing their places on a string with small beads on it , and then mark- ing them down on paper . I then went to serve a considerable farmer , whose name was James Glashan ; when he saw me , after my work was done , go into a ...
... night , fixing their places on a string with small beads on it , and then mark- ing them down on paper . I then went to serve a considerable farmer , whose name was James Glashan ; when he saw me , after my work was done , go into a ...
Página 38
... night's lodging in that caravansary . The guards let him know , in a very angry manner , that the house he was in , was not a caravansary , but the king's palace . 66 Now it so happened that the king himself passed through the gallery ...
... night's lodging in that caravansary . The guards let him know , in a very angry manner , that the house he was in , was not a caravansary , but the king's palace . 66 Now it so happened that the king himself passed through the gallery ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 110 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Página 12 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Página 131 - Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; 5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
Página 126 - Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us : therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness ; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Página 38 - let the errors and follies, the dangers and escape of this day, sink deep into thy heart. Remember, my son, that human life is the journey of a day. We rise in the morning of youth, full of vigour and full of expectation; we set forward with spirit and hope, with gaiety and with diligence, and travel on a while in the straight road of piety towards the mansions of rest.
Página 316 - Paul's ministry, shall be his hope, and joy, and crown of rejoicing "in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming
Página 8 - He had disparaged himself by so dirty an employment,' his answer was, ' That the thought of what he had done would prove music to him at midnight; and that the omission of it would have upbraided and made discord in his conscience, whensoever he should pass by that place ; for if I be bound to pray for all that be in...
Página 210 - Where glistening streamers waved and danced, The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's delicious blue; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream.
Página 218 - Wholly unacquainted with the world in which they are so fond of meddling, and inexperienced in all its affairs, on which they pronounce with so much confidence, they have nothing of politics but the passions they excite. Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.