The Lives of the Saints, Volume 1

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Page 311 - I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world : thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
Page 147 - Who is like unto the Lord our God, that hath his dwelling so high, and yet humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven and earth ? 6 He taketh up the simple out of the dust, and lifteth the poor out of the mire ; 7 That he may set him with the princes, even with the princes of his people.
Page 385 - And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king.
Page 189 - They have ears, and hear not ; noses have they, and smell not, 7 They have hands, and handle not; feet have they, and walk not; neither speak they through their throat. 8 They that make them are like unto them ; and so are all such as put their trust in them.
Page 174 - Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder : the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
Page 8 - Why do ye inquire of Jesus the Son of man ? he sits in heaven on the right hand of the majesty on high, and will come again in the clouds of heaven.
Page 30 - God, of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds; and Man, of the substance of his mother, born in the world...
Page 189 - Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
Page 374 - He had laid aside every mark of royalty or of distinguished station; he was clad only in the thin white linen dress of the penitent, and there, fasting, he awaited in humble patience the pleasure of the Pope. But the gates did not unclose. A second day he stood, cold, hungry, and mocked by vain hope.
Page 240 - Visitation' which I either did or ever shall hold. This man, that, for sixteen years together, was fain to walk upon his hands, by reason of the close contraction of the sinews of his legs...

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