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Page 56 - To chase these pagans, in those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, Which, fourteen hundred years ago, were nailed, For our advantage, on the bitter cross.
Page 9 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created : and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Page 5 - But thy most dreaded instrument, In working out a pure intent, Is Man — arrayed for mutual slaughter, . Yea, Carnage is thy daughter...
Page 103 - This voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost, ' 'Tis better to have fought and lost, Than never to have fought at all.
Page 117 - O God, whose nature and property is ever to have mercy and to forgive, receive our humble petitions ; and though we be tied and bound with the chain of our sins, yet let the pitifulness of thy great mercy loose us ; for the honour of Jesus Christ, our Mediator and Advocate.
Page 86 - Dardanidae duri, quae vos a stirpe parentum 95 prima tulit tellus, eadem vos ubere laeto accipiet reduces. antiquam exquirite matrem. hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris et nati natorum et qui nascentur ab illis.
Page 4 - Why? what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee ; . . And, for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself? — It waves me forth again — I'll follow it.
Page 117 - Above all, that gospel which breathes " peace on earth and good will to men," holds out for universal observance its golden rule of doing to others as we would have others do to us...
Page 67 - ... cove, as he designates him who has, with one of Farlow's best rods, been, to the extreme disgust of the youngster, the whole morning a field ahead of him ; and which said youngster would sooner run all day, or ride a donkey, than fail to follow the hounds, should they be drawing in his neighbourhood. It must not be supposed, from what I have said, that I think lightly of good riders : far be it from my intention to disparage...
Page 39 - A high ideal of excellence in any individual involves combativeness and readiness to suffer. The great soldier who has also the brains to be a great civilian and the heart of a good man, is the highest of human beings.