Less Black Than We're Painted: A Novel, Band 1G. Munro, 1878 - 43 Seiten |
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Seite 42 - Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.
Seite 121 - He that regardeth the day regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it.
Seite 22 - In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, we now pronounce our final sentence, and condemn thee, Michael Servetus, to be bound and taken to Champel, and there, being fastened to a stake, to be burned alive, along with thy books, printed as well as written by thy hand, until thy body be reduced to ashes.
Seite 21 - He spoke very quietly, but he would have liked nothing better at that moment than to have...
Seite 29 - He saw a Hand they could not see Which beckoned him away ; He heard a Voice they could not hear Which would not let him stay.
Seite 55 - Buddha, has spread far beyond the limits of the Aryan world, and to our limited vision, it may seem to have retarded the advent of Christianity among a large portion of the human race. But in the sight of Him, with whom a thousand years are but as one day...
Seite 35 - I WAKE, I rise : from end to end Of all the landscape underneath, I find no place that does not breathe Some gracious memory of my friend ; No gray old grange, or lonely fold, Or low morass and whispering reed, Or simple stile from mead to mead, Or sheepwalk up the windy wold ; Nor hoary knoll of ash and haw That hears the latest linnet trill, Nor quarry trench'd along...
Seite 29 - ... who has worked himself up to believe that death at the hangman's hands is the most glorious euthanasia. Surrendering himself to the one idea of " martyrdom," he had become possessed by it, and henceforth his actions were out of the range of criticism : there was nothing for it but to let matters take their course.
Seite 109 - To be sure," said the obliging Captain, — "as well as I can, that is. Now, do you remember what I told you the other day about the sun shining all the time, — do you remember that ? " " Yes," answered William, " that I do. Goes round and round, that way," and he whirled his hat about his head.
Seite 20 - observed the curate, with severity ; for there are sonic, things (though they are different ones) that none of us can stand. ! "Quite the contrary," answered Dick, coolly. "I was thinking of the fun one gets out of the choristers. You give them nuts, you know — sixpennyworth among the lot will do it — and then they can't sing a note.