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... dreadful pirates ( or sea robbers ) , who sailed about the seas in large ships of their own , and seized all the boats they met with , murdering most of their prisoners , and making those whom they did not kill pay large sums of money ...
... dreadful pirates ( or sea robbers ) , who sailed about the seas in large ships of their own , and seized all the boats they met with , murdering most of their prisoners , and making those whom they did not kill pay large sums of money ...
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... dreadful stories were told every day of their horrid cruelties . One thing that the pirates had done a short time before was very shocking . They had landed near Rome , and seized a very rich and great man , whom they took away far out ...
... dreadful stories were told every day of their horrid cruelties . One thing that the pirates had done a short time before was very shocking . They had landed near Rome , and seized a very rich and great man , whom they took away far out ...
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... dreadful battle took place , many were killed and wounded on both sides ; but at last the pirates were defeated and taken prisoners ; then Cæsar seized all their money , and did as he had threatened , for he crucified the whole of them ...
... dreadful battle took place , many were killed and wounded on both sides ; but at last the pirates were defeated and taken prisoners ; then Cæsar seized all their money , and did as he had threatened , for he crucified the whole of them ...
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... dreadful fits , which caused him to fall suddenly on the ground quite helpless , and to have frightful convulsions ; yet he never made his bad health an excuse for being indolent or idle , but practised every sort of fatiguing exercise ...
... dreadful fits , which caused him to fall suddenly on the ground quite helpless , and to have frightful convulsions ; yet he never made his bad health an excuse for being indolent or idle , but practised every sort of fatiguing exercise ...
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... dreadful customs , they frequently sacrificed men upon their altars , because they thought it would please their false gods . It is curious , that in almost every savage country people shed the blood of their fellow - creatures as an ...
... dreadful customs , they frequently sacrificed men upon their altars , because they thought it would please their false gods . It is curious , that in almost every savage country people shed the blood of their fellow - creatures as an ...
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Seite 99 - A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Seite 111 - I am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day; and not to me only, but unto all them, also, that love His appearing.
Seite 152 - And just as he added at the last, "Woe, woe to myself also!
Seite 20 - Man came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them ; he came not to curse, but to bless us, by turning away every one of us from his iniquities.
Seite 122 - For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death : for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
Seite 106 - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest : but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
Seite 180 - ... spite, however, of the edicts of the governing powers and the violence of the mob, the new faith continued to make progress. For some years prior to 1590, 10,000 natives were, it was reckoned, annually gained over to Christianity; and the state of affairs certainly seemed to prove the truth of the saying that the blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church.
Seite 65 - O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this little measure?
Seite 180 - In the general, that there shall be such a happy period as the millennium, that ' the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High,' Dan. vii. 27. that Christ shall have ' the heathen for his inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession,
Seite 106 - Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren which are with me greet you. All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Caesar's household.