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الصفحة 147
... the world to confound the wise , and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty . " If there is one word in our language more misunder- stood than any other , it is the little word " Faith . ” We have been told ...
... the world to confound the wise , and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty . " If there is one word in our language more misunder- stood than any other , it is the little word " Faith . ” We have been told ...
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الصفحة 147 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
الصفحة 56 - In these far climes it was my lot To meet the wondrous Michael Scott ; A wizard, of such dreaded fame, That when, in Salamanca's cave, Him listed his magic wand to wave, The bells would ring in Notre Dame...
الصفحة 30 - Length of days is in her right hand ; and in her left hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
الصفحة 147 - Samuel, and of the prophets : who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
الصفحة 165 - Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh : yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth kntiw we him no more.
الصفحة 58 - Before their eyes the wizard lay, As if he had not been dead a day. His hoary beard in silver rolled, He seemed some seventy winters old; A palmer's amice wrapped him round, With a wrought Spanish baldric bound, Like a pilgrim from beyond the sea: His left hand held his Book of Might, A silver cross was in his right; The lamp was placed beside his knee.
الصفحة 141 - A most portentous face of scoundrelism: a fat, snub, abominable face; dew-lapped, flat-nosed, greasy, full of greediness, sensuality, oxlike obstinacy; a forehead impudent, refusing to be ashamed; and then two eyes turned up seraphically languishing, as in divine contemplation and adoration; a touch of quiz too: on the whole, perhaps the most perfect quack-face produced by the eighteenth century.
الصفحة 164 - The direction from which the invasion came is not far to seek : it is to be found in the ever increasing presence of non-operative members.
الصفحة 97 - The first of these inventions was "the plan of a certain ship, which with its men was to go under the surface of the sea, wherever it chooses, and do great damage to the fleet of the enemy.
الصفحة 107 - I have thus been instructed concerning different kinds of spirits, and the state of souls after death, — concerning hell, or the lamentable state of the unfaithful, — concerning heaven, or the most happy state of the faithful, — and particularly concerning the doctrine of faith which is acknowledged throughout all heaven : on which subjects, by the divine mercy of the Lord, more will be said in the following pages.