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Arthur Hall, Smart, and Allen, 1863 - 275 páginas
 

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Página 242 - The age is running mad after innovation ; and all the business of the world is to be done in a new way : men are to be hanged in a new way; Tyburn itself is not safe from the fury of innovation.
Página 124 - To thee, all Angels cry aloud; the Heavens, and all the Powers therein. To thee, Cherubim and Seraphim continually do cry, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Sabaoth; Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of thy Glory.
Página 25 - An Act for the Punishment of idle and disorderly Persons, and Rogues and Vagabonds, in that part of Great Britain called England.
Página 101 - Though he, that has but impudence, To all things has a fair pretence ; And, put among his wants but shame, To all the world may lay his claim...
Página 198 - Above all, the testator positively enjoins 'that all the instructors and teachers in the college shall take pains to instil into the minds of the scholars the purest principles of morality, so that on their entrance into active life they may, from inclination and habit, evince benevolence towards their fellow-creatures and a love of truth, sobriety and industry, adopting at the same time such religious tenets as their matured reason may enable them to prefer.
Página 156 - ... and the Christian. Our most eminent men, as well as humble citizens, were early at the Hall to secure eligible seats ; and they were alike profoundly silent and attentive to the eloquence and philosophy of the lecturer.
Página 201 - Perpetual harmony their bed attend, And Venus still the well-match'd pair befriend. May she, when time has sunk him into years, Love her old man, and cherish his white hairs ; Nor he perceive her charms through age decay, But think each happy sun his bridal day.
Página 97 - A simple branch of the science which I have always found to be correct is ignored and ridiculed entirely by some astrologers. It is based upon the daily motion of the ]) after a birth has taken place, allowing twenty-four hours for a year for the effects to appear, whatever they may be.
Página 117 - ... the Isle of Purbeck, and died about sixteen years since. Her mistress one time being desirous to accompany her mother, the Lady Beconsfield, unto London, who lived twelve miles from her habitation, caused Sarah to inspect her crystal, to see if she, viz. her mother, was gone, yea or not : the angels appeared, and shewed her mother opening a trunk, and taking out a red waistcoat, whereby she perceived she was not gone. Next day she went to her mother's, and there, as she entered the chamber, she...
Página 120 - My brethren, there are men who, whether designedly or not, are in league with the fallen spirits — wizards and necromancers, using enchantment and divination, and producing divers effects beyond the power of man — real and natural effects, by the help of the devil, upon both the minds and bodies of their fellowcreatures. I shall endeavour this evening, by God's help, to follow that branch of the subject, and to...

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