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... , that he might be feared by all men during his life , and remembered and talked about long after his death . Julius Cæsar lived forty years before Christ came into the world . He , perhaps , never heard JULIUS CÆSAR, FIRST EMPEROR OF ROME.
... , that he might be feared by all men during his life , and remembered and talked about long after his death . Julius Cæsar lived forty years before Christ came into the world . He , perhaps , never heard JULIUS CÆSAR, FIRST EMPEROR OF ROME.
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Catherine Sinclair. into the world . He , perhaps , never heard that it was his duty to be humble , and peaceable , and 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 ...
Catherine Sinclair. into the world . He , perhaps , never heard that it was his duty to be humble , and peaceable , and 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 ...
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... never made his bad health an excuse for being indolent or idle , but practised every sort of fatiguing exercise . Cæsar once swam two hundred paces at sea , holding a book in his left hand above water , and his armour with his teeth ...
... never made his bad health an excuse for being indolent or idle , but practised every sort of fatiguing exercise . Cæsar once swam two hundred paces at sea , holding a book in his left hand above water , and his armour with his teeth ...
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... never seemed to care what he ate , nor where he slept , nor whether he lived or died , provided he could show what a hero he was ; and whichever of his soldiers was the bravest in battle might be sure that Cæsar would notice it , and ...
... never seemed to care what he ate , nor where he slept , nor whether he lived or died , provided he could show what a hero he was ; and whichever of his soldiers was the bravest in battle might be sure that Cæsar would notice it , and ...
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... never cut their hair , they had a very wild and frightful appearance . How astonished a British army would be now to see the soldiers who defended this country formerly , and who scarcely looked like human beings ; they had neither ...
... never cut their hair , they had a very wild and frightful appearance . How astonished a British army would be now to see the soldiers who defended this country formerly , and who scarcely looked like human beings ; they had neither ...
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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.