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Page 544 - LIKE CHRIST. Thoughts on the Blessed Life of Conformity to the Son of God. A Sequel to "Abide in Christ.
Page 516 - Kamenyets, and the first cavalier of the Commonwealth. It was whispered that the hetman himself was to come to the funeral; but as he had not appeared so far, and as at any moment the Tartars might come in a chambul, it was determined not to defer the ceremony. Old soldiers, friends or subordinates of the deceased, stood in a circle around the catafalque. Among others were present Pan Mushalski, the...
Page 535 - ... legions of knights, the blood not yet wiped from them, and while still trembling from their efforts in battle, gave out three times the loud thundering shout : — " Vivat Joannes victor ! " Ten years later, when the Majesty of King Yan III. (Sobieski) hurled to the dust the Turkish power at Vienna, that shout was repeated from sea to sea, from mountain to mountain, throughout the world, wherever bells called the faithful to prayer.
Page 537 - Grecian rnytt i/logy is so intimately connected with the work of the greatest poets that it will continue to be interesting as long as classical poetry exists, and must form an indispensab'e part of the education of the man of literature and of the gentleman.
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| Title | Pan Michael (Pan Volodiyovski): A Historical Tale |
| Author | Henryk Sienkiewicz |
| Translated by | Samuel Augustus Binion |
| Publisher | Altemus, 1898 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Oct 20, 2007 |
| Length | 529 pages |
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