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A. Gardner, 1885 - 192 páginas
 

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Página 53 - And if my heart and flesh are weak To bear an untried pain, The bruised reed he will not break, But strengthen and sustain. "And so beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar; No harm from him can come to me On ocean or on shore. "I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms in air...
Página 187 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Página 113 - Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth ; And the heavens are the works of thine hands: They shall perish; but thou remainest; And they all shall wax old as doth a garment; And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, And they shall be changed: But thou art the same, And thy years shall not fail.
Página 113 - And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Página 158 - Majesty recommended the following rules, by them to be most carefully observed : — " 1 . The ordinary Bible read in the church, commonly called the Bishops' Bible, to be followed and as little altered as the original will permit.
Página 72 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Página 158 - No Marginal Notes at all to be affixed, but only for the Explanation of the Hebrew or Greek Words, which cannot without some circumlocution, so briefly and fitly be express'd in the Text. 7. Such Quotations of Places to be marginally set down as shall serve for the fit Reference of one Scripture to another.
Página 102 - Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Página 34 - When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights, Then in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now.
Página 53 - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into, Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.

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