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by Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883
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Scenes and characters from the writings of Thomas Babington Macaulay. To ...

Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...were recorded in the Book of Life. If their steps were not accompanied by a splendid train of menials, legions of ministering angels had charge over them....evangelist, and the harp of the prophet. He had been rescued by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of...
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Lives of the Chief Fathers of New England, Volume 2

1846 - 318 pages
...its disciples in the seventeenth century, it is said by the most eloquent of modern essayists ; — " The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate...evangelist, and the harp of the prophet. He had been rescued by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged — on whose slightest actions oked back with most pride. He had it in his power...good-will of all tha English in Bengal, by giving up to rescued by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of...
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Lives of the Chief Fathers of New England, Volume 2

1846 - 318 pages
...belonged,—on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest,—who had been destined, before heaven and earth were created,...evangelist, and the harp of the prophet. He had been rescued by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of...
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The Lives of John Wilson, John Norton, and John Davenport

Alexander Wilson M'Clure - 1846 - 322 pages
...to earthly causes had been ordained on his account. For his sake, empires had risen, and nourished, and decayed. For his sake, the Almighty had proclaimed...evangelist, and the harp of the prophet. He had been rescued by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of...
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Liberty of Conscience Illustrated: And the Social Relations Sustained by ...

James William Massie - 1847 - 228 pages
...of Cromwell, and the guardian of England. Sir Matthew Hale searched for precedents, took the Enwith hands ; their diadems crowns of glory which should...common deliverer, from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of no vulgar agony, by the blood of no earthly sacrifice. It was for...
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North American First Class Reader: The Sixth Book of Tower's Series for ...

David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a mor« sublime language ; nobies by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by...evangelist and the harp of the prophet. He had been rescued by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of...
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Parsing Book: Containing Rules of Syntax, and Models for Analyzing and ...

Allen Hayden Weld - 1848 - 120 pages
...created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away. 7. Events which short-sighted politicians ascribed to...evangelist, and the harp of the prophet He had been rescued by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. 8. He had been ransomed by the sweat...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]

1849 - 818 pages
...contempt : for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more MM 2 sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier...common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of no vulgar agony, by the blood of no earthly sacrifice. It was for...
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The Juvenile companion, and Sunday-school hive [afterw.] The ..., Volumes 5-6

1856 - 666 pages
...continue when heaven and earth should have passed away. Events, which short-sighted politicians had ascribed to earthly causes, had been ordained on his...common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of no vulgar agony, by the blood of no earthly sacrifice. It was for...
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