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... dying and hanging here is upon the account of the bishop's death ; but I must tell you that I was never in this country before this time . The ground of my sentence is because I will not call my being in arms at Both- well Bridge ...
... dying and hanging here is upon the account of the bishop's death ; but I must tell you that I was never in this country before this time . The ground of my sentence is because I will not call my being in arms at Both- well Bridge ...
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... died in Jamaica , June 14 , 1700 . John Borland , his colleague , and the solitary survivor of what was to have been the Presbytery of Caledonia , in what Lord Macaulay justly calls " his curious and interesting narrative " of the ...
... died in Jamaica , June 14 , 1700 . John Borland , his colleague , and the solitary survivor of what was to have been the Presbytery of Caledonia , in what Lord Macaulay justly calls " his curious and interesting narrative " of the ...
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... died here in Jamaica , the Reverend Mr Alexander Shields was one . He departed this life at Port Royal , in Jamaica , on June 14 , of a violent and malignant fever , much lamented of all who knew his worth and parts , and had the ...
... died here in Jamaica , the Reverend Mr Alexander Shields was one . He departed this life at Port Royal , in Jamaica , on June 14 , of a violent and malignant fever , much lamented of all who knew his worth and parts , and had the ...
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... died . St Mary's College is nearly opposite the Town Church , and outside and in has a venerable academic air about it . It contains much that is full of interest to the student . But we must hurry on to the burying- ground , in which ...
... died . St Mary's College is nearly opposite the Town Church , and outside and in has a venerable academic air about it . It contains much that is full of interest to the student . But we must hurry on to the burying- ground , in which ...
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... DIED SEPTEMBER TWENTY - ONE A.D. 17II . Another , a century later , over the remains of an Ann Herd , who died in 1829 , reads a useful homily : Often i stood as you stand now To view the dead as you do me Ere long and you shall be as ...
... DIED SEPTEMBER TWENTY - ONE A.D. 17II . Another , a century later , over the remains of an Ann Herd , who died in 1829 , reads a useful homily : Often i stood as you stand now To view the dead as you do me Ere long and you shall be as ...
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Page 33 - And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree : his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day ; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God ;) that thy land be not defiled, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
Page 106 - They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
Page 200 - I know in whom I have believed, and that he is able to keep that which I have committed to him against that day.
Page 127 - Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people : for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
Page 274 - But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir, come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
Page 26 - God alone is Lord of the conscience, and hath left it free from the doctrines and commandments of men which are in any thing contrary to his word, or beside it, in matters of faith or worship.
Page 218 - O cruel woman, how can you name his name to me ? the first news I expect to hear of him is, that he is hanged for a thief.
Page 239 - Knox and Welch !" exclaimed he, " the devil never made such a match as that." — " It's right like, sir," said she, "for we never speired* his advice." He asked her how many children her father had left, and if they were lads or lasses. She said three, and they were all lasses,