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... doors of that monastery were thrown open . I behold its scared inmates issuing from the sanctuary where their hearts had found rest ; I see them watering with their tears the soil from which they were so cruelly driven . One young nun ...
... doors of that monastery were thrown open . I behold its scared inmates issuing from the sanctuary where their hearts had found rest ; I see them watering with their tears the soil from which they were so cruelly driven . One young nun ...
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... Door of the Church - Cruel Mode of Preserving Order - Palm- Sunday- Procession of the Catholics ; of the Armenians - Wednesday in Passion - Week - Office of the Darkness - Maundy - Thursday - Solemn Mass Procession - Foot - Washing ...
... Door of the Church - Cruel Mode of Preserving Order - Palm- Sunday- Procession of the Catholics ; of the Armenians - Wednesday in Passion - Week - Office of the Darkness - Maundy - Thursday - Solemn Mass Procession - Foot - Washing ...
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... doors , but at my request I was allowed a few moments . How beautiful is that cathedral ! how imposing its architecture ! what profound sensations it excites ! How that majestic obscurity all at once imposes silence on earthly thoughts ...
... doors , but at my request I was allowed a few moments . How beautiful is that cathedral ! how imposing its architecture ! what profound sensations it excites ! How that majestic obscurity all at once imposes silence on earthly thoughts ...
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... door of my chamber , was also a gift from the same empress . I shall soon have been two months at Cyprus , my dear friend . Since my convalescence , I frequently ride out on horseback , to explore the environs , but my favourite resort ...
... door of my chamber , was also a gift from the same empress . I shall soon have been two months at Cyprus , my dear friend . Since my convalescence , I frequently ride out on horseback , to explore the environs , but my favourite resort ...
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... door for a dog : " Father Genipert , what are you about ? beware of the plague ; " he replied , with the utmost in- genuousness : " But surely our poor Castor must not go without his dinner ! " Castor was not turned out till yes- terday ...
... door for a dog : " Father Genipert , what are you about ? beware of the plague ; " he replied , with the utmost in- genuousness : " But surely our poor Castor must not go without his dinner ! " Castor was not turned out till yes- terday ...
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Page 385 - And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
Page 67 - And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
Page 298 - And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you : this do in remembrance of me. Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
Page 304 - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Page 225 - When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, and said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.
Page 334 - HOW doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people ! How is she become as a widow ! she that was great among the nations, And princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
Page 77 - And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not. And he came and touched the bier ; and they that bare him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, arise ; and he that was dead sat up, and began to speak ; and he delivered him to his mother.
Page 42 - ... the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor ; he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Page 300 - Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith ? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it ? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
Page 191 - Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world ; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort ; and in secret have I said nothing. Why askest thou me ? ask them which heard me, what I have said unto them : behold, they know what I said.