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Page 193 - And still increasing lights ! what are ye ? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden ? Is your course measured for ye ? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion — at which my soul aches to think — Intoxicated with eternity...
Page 198 - This conceit grew so strong in little time upon my spirit that, had I but seen a priest, though never so sordid and debauched in his life, I should find my spirit fall under him, reverence him, and knit unto him; yea, I thought for the love I did bear unto them, supposing they were the ministers of God, I could have lain down at their feet, and have been trampled upon by them; their name, their garb, and work did so intoxicate and bewitch me.
Page 78 - Sir this is a busy day with us, we cannot hear you, it is Robin Hood's day. The parish are gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood. I pray you let them not.
Page 157 - And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. 17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
Page 78 - The church stood in my way, and I took my horse and my company and went thither. I thought I should have found a great company in the church, and when I came there the church door was fast locked.
Page 202 - Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not ; for he will not pardon your transgressions : for my name is in him.
Page 34 - in general what will be the end of the conflict ? I answer, Victory ! But if you ask me in particular, then I answer Death. But death is not extinction. Rather it serves to spread abroad the light.
Page 315 - Busy yourself with your defence rather than with your dreams," said his faithful friend, the knight of Chlum, to whom he had communicated this vision. " I am no dreamer," replied Huss, "but I maintain this for certain, that the image of Christ will never be effaced. They have wished to destroy it, but it shall be painted afresh in all hearts by much better preachers than myself. The nation that loves Christ will rejoice at this. And I, awaking from...
Page 315 - Christ that he had had painted on the walls of his oratory, effaced by the Pope and his bishops. This vision distressed him ; but on the next day he saw many painters occupied in restoring these figures in greater number and in brighter colours. As soon as their task was ended, the painters, who were surrounded by an immense crowd, exclaimed, ' Now let the popes and bishops come ! They shall never efface them more ! ' ' And many people rejoiced in Bethlehem, and I with them,' adds John Huss. ' Busy...
Page 265 - Then came orations, then dinners, ball, oratorios, boat-races, processions by torchlight. For three days the population of Mentz was kept in a state of high excitement, and the echo of the excitement went through Germany . "Guttenberg! Guttenberg!" was toasted in many a bumper of Rhenish wine amidst this cordial and enthusiastic people.