Anecdotes and Incidents, ecclesiastical and religiousBurns & Lambert, 1858 - 184 strán (strany) |
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Strana 93 - Their mutual inquiries produced the amazing discovery that two centuries were almost elapsed since Jamblichus and his friends had escaped from the rage of a Pagan tyrant. The bishop of Ephesus, the clergy, the magistrates, the people, and...
Strana 10 - Barnaby desired all of us to take an account of the time, and pen it in our pocket-books ; and when we got on board we wrote it in our journals, for we saw them run into the flames of fire, and there was a great noise, which greatly affrighted us all, for we none of us ever saw or heard the like before. Captain Barnaby said, ' He was certain it was old Booty which he saw running over Stromboli, and into the flames of hell.
Strana 48 - is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man : thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
Strana 81 - Lord, thou wilt open my lips : and my mouth shall declare thy praise. For if thou hadst desired sacrifice, I would indeed have given it : with burntofferings thou wilt not be delighted. A sacrifice to God is an afflicted spirit ; a contrite and humbled heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Deal favourably, O Lord, in thy goodwill with Sion : that the walls of Jerusalem may be built up.
Strana 167 - These are the glittering robes in which Satan is now arraying. Many spirits are abroad, more are issuing from the pit ; the credentials which they display are the precious gifts of mind, beauty, richness, depth, originality. Christian, look hard at them with Martin in silence, and ask them for the print of the nails.
Strana 165 - ... has nothing to lose, except these mean garments and a few books. Nor does he care for exile, who is not circumscribed by place, who does not make a home of the spot he dwells in, but everywhere a home whithersoever he be cast, or rather everywhere God's home, whose pilgrim he is and wanderer. Nor can tortures harm a frame so frail as to break under the first blow. You could but strike once, and death would be gain. It would but send me the sooner to Him for whom I live and labour, for whom I...
Strana 92 - ... years. At the end of that time the slaves of Adolius, to whom the inheritance of the mountain had descended, removed the stones to supply materials for some rustic edifice : the light of the sun darted into the cavern, and the seven sleepers were permitted to awake.
Strana 93 - The youth, if we may still employ that appellation, could no longer recognise the once familiar aspect of his native country; and his surprise was increased by the appearance of a large cross, triumphantly erected over the principal gate of Ephesus. His singular dress and obsolete language confounded the baker, to whom he offered an ancient medal of Decius as the current coin of the empire ; and Jamblichus, on the suspicion of a secret treasure, was dragged before the judge. Their mutual inquiries...
Strana 75 - God, was struck with the sight, and, stimulated to encounter the honours of spiritual warfare, and to earn for himself eternal life and happiness among God's mighty ones, he forthwith offered up praise and thanksgivings to the Lord, and called upon his companions, with brotherly exhortations, to imitate his example. "Miserable men that we are...
Strana 79 - If you will not believe me, come up yourself and see him : Then Dr. Henley stept up to him, and handled him, and found he lay whole : Then he commanded them to take him down ; and so it happened contrary to their expectation, that not only his body was whole and uncorrupted, but the vestments wherein his body lay, and wherein he was accustomed to say mass, were...