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... feet ; - Thrones and Empires trembled at his nod . The Russians and Prussians had been degraded by the treaty of Tilsit ; the Portuguese Court had emigrated to the Brazils ; the Spanish Throne had been abdicated , and the Royal Family ...
... feet ; - Thrones and Empires trembled at his nod . The Russians and Prussians had been degraded by the treaty of Tilsit ; the Portuguese Court had emigrated to the Brazils ; the Spanish Throne had been abdicated , and the Royal Family ...
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... feet long and 35 broad at the widest part . The pulpit is very antient carved work . The aisles are composed of four plain arches of Norman , which support a slanting roof ; the roof of the chancel is flat , and the parapet very high ...
... feet long and 35 broad at the widest part . The pulpit is very antient carved work . The aisles are composed of four plain arches of Norman , which support a slanting roof ; the roof of the chancel is flat , and the parapet very high ...
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... feet in height , and at the top and bottom of the table a temple with dome roof , supported by eight massive pillars ; these were richly gilt . A variety of other orna- ments were intermixed with the viands . The Royal table displayed a ...
... feet in height , and at the top and bottom of the table a temple with dome roof , supported by eight massive pillars ; these were richly gilt . A variety of other orna- ments were intermixed with the viands . The Royal table displayed a ...
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... feet above the surface of its lake , which extends from it , in the form of a crescent , and to which it seems to form an Amphitheatre . The blue and limpid waters of the Rhone- for they are here of singular trans- parency - divide the ...
... feet above the surface of its lake , which extends from it , in the form of a crescent , and to which it seems to form an Amphitheatre . The blue and limpid waters of the Rhone- for they are here of singular trans- parency - divide the ...
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... feet in depth . At Geneva its breadth is not more than from three to four hundred feet ; but between Rolle and Thenon , it is computed at three leagues and a quarter . Its whole ex- pause contains about 26 square leagues . This ...
... feet in depth . At Geneva its breadth is not more than from three to four hundred feet ; but between Rolle and Thenon , it is computed at three leagues and a quarter . Its whole ex- pause contains about 26 square leagues . This ...
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Page 400 - Pilate, saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.
Page 39 - Would he had blotted a thousand," which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this but for their ignorance who chose that circumstance to commend their friend by wherein he most faulted ; and to justify mine own candour, for I loved the man, and do honour his memory on this side idolatry as much as any.
Page 400 - And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
Page 210 - O powerful Goodness! bountiful Father! merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolutions to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favors to me.
Page 72 - MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL. WHEREAS, there was this day read at the Board, a Report from a Committee of the Lords of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, dated the 7th of last month, in the words following, viz.
Page 400 - Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God; he riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself. After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.
Page 40 - ... as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power, would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things, could not escape laughter : as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him,
Page 340 - There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both. The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
Page 531 - is Tonson. You will take care not to depart before he goes away : for I have not completed the sheet which I promised him ; and if you leave me unprotected, I must suffer all the rudeness to which his resentment can prompt his tongue.
Page 108 - I shrewdly suspect that those non est tanti gentlefolks only depreciate the natural and unaffected pleasure which men like me receive from sights of splendour and sounds of harmony, either because they would seem wiser than their simple neighbours, at the expense of being less happy ; or because the mere pleasure of the sight and sound is connected with associations of a deeper kind, to which they are unwilling to yield themselves. " Leaving these gentlemen to enjoy their own wisdom, I still more...