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Page 11
... scarcely more than a boy , but a very giant for size and strength , and already , unhappily , as much given to drinking and swearing as any of his comrades on his side of the camp . He thought to prove his manliness and good com ...
... scarcely more than a boy , but a very giant for size and strength , and already , unhappily , as much given to drinking and swearing as any of his comrades on his side of the camp . He thought to prove his manliness and good com ...
Page 12
... scarcely touched the dying man's lips before he revived wonder- fully , and his appearance might have deceived even those far more experienced than Henry Savile into hopes for his recovery . But it did not deceive himself . " Hope for ...
... scarcely touched the dying man's lips before he revived wonder- fully , and his appearance might have deceived even those far more experienced than Henry Savile into hopes for his recovery . But it did not deceive himself . " Hope for ...
Page 22
... scarcely be said to have any history at all . It was the Protector's policy to repress anything especially national , that he might the more easily govern the two countries as one people ; and as the Covenanters were themselves split up ...
... scarcely be said to have any history at all . It was the Protector's policy to repress anything especially national , that he might the more easily govern the two countries as one people ; and as the Covenanters were themselves split up ...
Page 44
... and the boy's growing ambition was fast managing still more . Will is a strong key for the unlocking of many gates , and it scarcely needed a second glance at the boy's expressive countenance to understand that IV IVIE MCCALL.
... and the boy's growing ambition was fast managing still more . Will is a strong key for the unlocking of many gates , and it scarcely needed a second glance at the boy's expressive countenance to understand that IV IVIE MCCALL.
Page 47
... scarcely any resistance to his wishes . She knew too well that had she been a man she would have followed the same course . As it was she gave him a proud , fond smile for farewell , and then returned within the gates of their home to ...
... scarcely any resistance to his wishes . She knew too well that had she been a man she would have followed the same course . As it was she gave him a proud , fond smile for farewell , and then returned within the gates of their home to ...
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Popular passages
Page 231 - As smoke is driven away, so drive them away : As wax melteth before the fire, So let the wicked perish at the presence of GOD.
Page 25 - And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate ; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel.
Page 343 - Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Page 336 - I say unto you, my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom you shall fear: fear him, which after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
Page 16 - One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one ; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee ; till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.
Page 43 - And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it : that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
Page 16 - And therefore will the Lord wait, that He may be gracious unto you, and therefore will He be exalted, that He may have mercy upon you : for the Lord is a God of judgement; blessed are all they that wait for Him.
Page 124 - That we shall in like manner, without respect of persons, endeavour the extirpation of Popery, prelacy (that is, Church government by Archbishops, Bishops, their Chancellors and Commissaries, Deans, Deans and Chapters, Archdeacons, and all other ecclesiastical officers depending ou that hierarchy), superstition, heresy, schism, profaneness, and whatsoever shall be found to be contrary to sound doctrine and the power of godliness...
Page 86 - But he that hateth his brother, is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
Page 126 - ... and thereby be in danger to receive of their plagues, and that the Lord may be one, and His name one in the three kingdoms.