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... company of " Christy Minstrels " used then to perform . " I remember Sir Edward Burne - Jones's account , " says Mr. Collingwood , " of a visit to them ; how the Professor dragged him there , to a front seat , and those burnt - corked ...
... company of " Christy Minstrels " used then to perform . " I remember Sir Edward Burne - Jones's account , " says Mr. Collingwood , " of a visit to them ; how the Professor dragged him there , to a front seat , and those burnt - corked ...
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... Company " ( a summary of Fors ) . Spectator , March 15 and 22 , 1879 : " Mr. Ruskin's Society . " " We give this account , " wrote the editor , " from a friend of the scheme , as of a certain intellectual interest . We pass no criticism ...
... Company " ( a summary of Fors ) . Spectator , March 15 and 22 , 1879 : " Mr. Ruskin's Society . " " We give this account , " wrote the editor , " from a friend of the scheme , as of a certain intellectual interest . We pass no criticism ...
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... Company . 17. Affairs of the Master . 18. Letter from " A Methodist Preacher . " FATHER - LAW . LETTER 74 ( February ) ( Venice , Christmas Day , 1876. ) 1 , 2. St. Ursula sends the author her dianthus ; and a friend in England , a ...
... Company . 17. Affairs of the Master . 18. Letter from " A Methodist Preacher . " FATHER - LAW . LETTER 74 ( February ) ( Venice , Christmas Day , 1876. ) 1 , 2. St. Ursula sends the author her dianthus ; and a friend in England , a ...
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... Company . 18 . Accounts of the Master : author's absence of mind at Verona . 19. Letter on Turkish Loans and Bulgarian Atrocities . " 20. Reference to a letter from a Scottish correspondent . 66 STAR LAW • LETTER 75 ( March ) " ( Venice ...
... Company . 18 . Accounts of the Master : author's absence of mind at Verona . 19. Letter on Turkish Loans and Bulgarian Atrocities . " 20. Reference to a letter from a Scottish correspondent . 66 STAR LAW • LETTER 75 ( March ) " ( Venice ...
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... Company . 14. Character and failures of Mazzini and Garibaldi . The days of Kinghood and Priesthood not ended . NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE . - 15 . Affairs of the Company : provision of allotments at Sheffield . 16. Affairs of the Master ...
... Company . 14. Character and failures of Mazzini and Garibaldi . The days of Kinghood and Priesthood not ended . NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE . - 15 . Affairs of the Company : provision of allotments at Sheffield . 16. Affairs of the Master ...
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Page 188 - He that committeth sin is of the Devil; for the Devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the Devil.
Page 359 - My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
Page 359 - THE fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Page 275 - Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves...
Page 287 - My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken ; the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Page 243 - He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
Page 531 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Page 298 - He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
Page 57 - More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them is thy servant warned; and in keeping of them there is great reward.
Page 531 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.