My First Travels: Including Rides in the Pyrenees, Scenes During an Inundation at Avignon, Sketches in France and Savoy, Visits to Convents and Houses of Charity, &c., &c, Volume 2T. Cautley Newby, 1859 - France |
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Page 139 - Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who, and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him : for she. is a sinner.
Page 41 - For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.
Page 47 - Oh ! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye. But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die...
Page 29 - That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee : I bare the loss of it : of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. Thus I was ; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night ; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
Page 300 - Ask, and ye shall receive ; seek, and ye shall find ; knock, and the door shall be opened to you.
Page 131 - That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.
Page 220 - the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing ;" neither the mind with any degree of knowledge which can be conveyed into it.
Page 137 - Have we not power to eat and to drink? 5 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
Page 5 - ... he and his princess, while on a visit to the Comte d'Armagnac at Tarbes, rode over to Lourdes, which he had a great desire to see. He was greatly pleased, "as well with the strength of the place as with its situation on the frontiers of several countries, for those of Lourdes can overrun the country of Arragon to a great extent, and as far as Barcelona in Catalonia.
Page 6 - My lord, in truth I owe you faith and homage, for I am a poor knight of your blood and country ; but, as for the castle of Lourde, I will never surrender it to you.