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... kind to all men , but acted as if he had no other aim than to please himself , and to govern other people not that he cared to make them wiser , or happier , or better , but he merely desired his own glory . : When he was very young ...
... kind to all men , but acted as if he had no other aim than to please himself , and to govern other people not that he cared to make them wiser , or happier , or better , but he merely desired his own glory . : When he was very young ...
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... kind to Cæsar , and got him elected one of the consuls who were to govern Rome for a year . At the same time , Pompey , Cæsar , and Crassus made an arrangement , that they would allow nothing to be done in Rome , except what they all ...
... kind to Cæsar , and got him elected one of the consuls who were to govern Rome for a year . At the same time , Pompey , Cæsar , and Crassus made an arrangement , that they would allow nothing to be done in Rome , except what they all ...
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... kind to him , and who had been such a good husband to his daughter Julia , that he little thought anything could ever happen to make Cæsar his enemy ; but people who are ambitious cannot bear any to be equal to them ; and it is still ...
... kind to him , and who had been such a good husband to his daughter Julia , that he little thought anything could ever happen to make Cæsar his enemy ; but people who are ambitious cannot bear any to be equal to them ; and it is still ...
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... kind and merciful , be- cause Cæsar wished to show the Romans what a good king he would be if they raised him to the throne . He relieved many debtors , and allowed several persons who had been unjustly banished to return home , so that ...
... kind and merciful , be- cause Cæsar wished to show the Romans what a good king he would be if they raised him to the throne . He relieved many debtors , and allowed several persons who had been unjustly banished to return home , so that ...
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... kind immediately afterwards . Very different was the example given by our Lord , as related in the Scriptures ; for , though he could create with a single word as much food as satisfied thousands of people , yet when they were all fed ...
... kind immediately afterwards . Very different was the example given by our Lord , as related in the Scriptures ; for , though he could create with a single word as much food as satisfied thousands of people , yet when they were all fed ...
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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.