Omniana, Or Horæ Otiosiores

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Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812 - 330 sider

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Side 43 - Vouchsafe, O Lord : to keep us this day without sin. O Lord, have mercy upon us : have mercy upon us. O Lord, let thy mercy lighten upon us : as our trust is in thee. O Lord, in thee have I trusted : let me never be confounded.
Side 42 - When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death, thou didst open the kingdom of heaven to all believers. Thou sittest at the right hand of God in the glory of the Father. We believe that thou shall come to be our judge.
Side 100 - Christianity upon the subject of the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the body; but this was to be presumed, because Freemasonry is truth, and all truth must be identical.
Side 56 - Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.
Side 112 - ... of a most enormous size. It was built with sticks upon the ground, and was no less than six and twenty feet in circumference, and two feet eight inches high.
Side 65 - ... or even only recently formed, and entirely unconnected with any other water, swarms of fishes are continually found. The only explanation which it appears possible to give of this phenomenon is, that the spawn is by some unknown process carried up with the rain into the sky, and then let down with it upon the earth in a condition immediately to become alive.
Side 135 - ... jacket, trowsers, and shoes ; they then tossed up which should hang the other, and the short one won the toss. They got upon the wall, the one to submit, and the other to hang him on the lampiron. They both agreed in this statement. The tall one, who had been hanged, said, if he had won the toss, he would have hanged the other.
Side 48 - An odd circumstance occurred during the morning preaching. It was well only serious people were present. An ass walked gravely in at the gate, came up to the door of the house, lifted up his head, and stood stock still, in a posture of deep attention. Might not the dumb beast reprove many who.
Side 239 - ... such uneasiness as causes him to roll, perhaps among many more of the smeared leaves, till at length he becomes completely enveloped, and is deprived of sight. In this situation he may be compared to a man who has been tarred and feathered.
Side 122 - Tomb'd safely with you, till doom's fatal day ; That in this solitary place, where none Will ever come to breathe a sigh or groan, Some remnant might be extant, of the true And faithful love I ever tendered you.

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