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Página 58 - And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.
Página 26 - Or in proud falls magnificently lost, But clear and artless, pouring through the plain Health to the sick, and solace to the swain. Whose causeway parts the vale with shady rows ? Whose seats the weary traveller repose ? Who...
Página 69 - And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said. Thou art my beloved Son ; in thee I am well pleased.
Página 65 - And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
Página 26 - Behold the market-place with poor o'erspread ! The Man of Ross divides the weekly bread : He feeds yon almshouse, neat, but void of state, Where age and want sit smiling at the gate : Him portioned maids, apprenticed orphans blest, The young who labour, and the old who rest. Is any sick? The Man of Ross relieves, Prescribes, attends, the medicine makes, and gives.
Página 46 - To the monk heaven was next door ; he formed no plans, he had no cares ; the ravens of his father Benedict were ever at his side. He "went forth" in his youth "to his work and to his labour" until the evening of life ; if he lived a day longer, he did a day's work more ; whether he lived many days or few, he laboured on to the end of them. He had no wish to see further in advance of his journey than where he was to make his next stage. He ploughed and sowed, he prayed, he meditated, he studied, he...
Página 143 - Aristotle and the author of the Essay ; and whether all that is there traced comes wholly from the senses and experience ; or whether the soul originally contains the principles of several notions and doctrines, which the external objects only awaken on occasions, as I believe with Plato/' The nature of the problem is well stated here ; and Leibnitz sides with Plato in his solution of it.
Página 56 - Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.
Página 95 - Philadelphus, was BERENICE, whose name is found on a ceiling at Karnak, in the phrase, " Ptolemy and . . Berenice, the saviour gods.
Página 457 - A young nobleman, eldest son of the Viscount Montgomery, when a child, had a severe fall, attended with fracture of the ribs of the left side. The consequence of this was a suppurating abscess, which went on discharging abundantly for a long time, from an immense gap in his side; this I had from himself and other credible persons who were witnesses. Between the eighteenth and nineteenth years of his age, this young nobleman, having travelled through France and Italy, came to London, having at this...

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