... for our poor strength, even as are these firmamental lights to the grasp of our weak hands, at least no such vain excuse may avail us in regard to ...
... Her, down with Her even to the ground. Now when thoughts such as these assail us, it is a soothing and a blessed thing to turn and look upon that ...
... responded to the harmonies of Catholic truth, and sighed after Catholic unity. Who knows not that a fuller and purer service obtains in her public ...
... a beach of about two miles long has been formed, upon which the booming German Ocean breaks with no little force. At the southern extremity of the ...
... the Storms, a designation latterly softened into the Lady-Kirk, stood on the top of the cliff at the foot of which the little fishing village of Covesea ...
... the horrors of the continental army, had the effect of calling the blood into her face, and though it could hardly be called one of consciousness, ...
... painters, and the living beings who peopled it were in keeping with the rest. In among the embers grubbed two or three white-headed varlets marvellously ...
... Scotland, if possessing neither the peculiar quiet charm of an English one, nor the innocent mirth of a continental one, is not without its striking ...
... version than they were rudely burst in upon by a company of dragoons and (as the phrase ran in those days) were rabbled, that is, they were ejected ...
... and present excitement in exchange for the real happiness of a good conscience, some proper persons fancy that it is the mark of an unimpressed mind. ...
... spiritual guide should be with the Highland expedition, in order to influence the mind of the future conqueror of S. James', and the young Leslie pointed ...
... and love. It was that difference which the Church has illustrated and the poet has adorned by the characters of Leah and Rachel. Both were studies from ...
... nature as to be placed in symbolic form before the Easterns. I thought your teaching was similar to the English Church, and I cannot see how that ...
... chamber with the clergy, but the jail arrangements in those days were so unsatisfactory that access to every room in the building was to be had. Indeed ...
... our very errors are by the Cross turned into medicines. It was so with George Watt the fact of that night's riot brought him into contact with ...
... over the roaring of the stream, and soon answered from what seemed to be the bowels of the earth a few feet beyond him. Presently a bundle of brushwood, ...
... and much surprised was he with their peculiar ways, as he picked his steps among the pools of filthy water, the sleeping ducks, the crab-creels, ...
... some dozen men from a dark alley in Peter Cushney's entry down to the prison door. Bang-bang-bang-the stout old door is assaulted, for a time in ...
... Dumas pre born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie 24 July 1802 5 December 1870 was a French writer best known for his historical novels of high adventure ...
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