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... faid to have been defcended from the ancient princes of Verona . He learned the Latin tongue in his own country ; and in his rath year was prefented to the emperor Maximilian , who made him one of his pages . He ferved that emperor 17 ...
... faid to have been defcended from the ancient princes of Verona . He learned the Latin tongue in his own country ; and in his rath year was prefented to the emperor Maximilian , who made him one of his pages . He ferved that emperor 17 ...
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... faid to have encouraged trade and manu- factures , and to have received an embaffy of learned men from Ptolemy , king of Egypt . He died 171 B. C. and left the throne to his fon , Thereus , who , proving a tyrant , was banished , and ...
... faid to have encouraged trade and manu- factures , and to have received an embaffy of learned men from Ptolemy , king of Egypt . He died 171 B. C. and left the throne to his fon , Thereus , who , proving a tyrant , was banished , and ...
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... faid not less than 50,000 , in his march through Scotland . Yet he penetrated to the most northern extremity of the illand , and obliged the enemy to yield up their arms . On his return , be built a much stronger fortification to fecure ...
... faid not less than 50,000 , in his march through Scotland . Yet he penetrated to the most northern extremity of the illand , and obliged the enemy to yield up their arms . On his return , be built a much stronger fortification to fecure ...
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... faid to have done with the greatest cruelty , and even to have totally exterminated the inhabitants . The capital , called Camelon ( fuppofed to have been Abernethy ) , held out four months ; but was at laft taken by furprife , and ...
... faid to have done with the greatest cruelty , and even to have totally exterminated the inhabitants . The capital , called Camelon ( fuppofed to have been Abernethy ) , held out four months ; but was at laft taken by furprife , and ...
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... faid to have been innumerable . The confequence was , that the Scots were deprived of all their poffeffions fouth of the Forth ; and Conftantine , quite difpirited with his misfortune , refigned the crown to Malcolm , and retired to the ...
... faid to have been innumerable . The confequence was , that the Scots were deprived of all their poffeffions fouth of the Forth ; and Conftantine , quite difpirited with his misfortune , refigned the crown to Malcolm , and retired to the ...
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Page 274 - For the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead...
Page 253 - And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people.
Page 275 - Mark also, the disciple and interpreter of Peter, delivered to us in writing the things that had been preached by Peter. And Luke, the companion of Paul, put down in a book the gospel preached by him (Paul). Afterwards John, the disciple of the Lord, who also leaned upon his breast, he likewise published a gospel while he dwelt at Ephesus, in Asia.
Page 373 - The supreme Judge, by which all controversies of religion are to be determined, and all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men, and private spirits, are to be examined, and in whose sentence we are to rest, can be no other but the Holy Spirit speaking in the Scripture.
Page 236 - Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men : For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
Page 262 - Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter. Fear God, and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil.
Page 380 - Hebrides implies only the local frequency of a power which is nowhere totally unknown ; and that, where we are unable to decide by antecedent reason, we must be content to yield to the force of testimony.
Page 243 - Go! if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood, Go! and pretend your family is young; Nor own, your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards. Look next on greatness; say where greatness lies? "Where, but among the heroes and the wise?
Page 236 - And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.
Page 379 - ... diminution of the waters is apt to raise in a lonely region, full of echoes, and rocks, and caverns ; the grotesque and ghastly appearance of such a landscape by the light of the moon. Objects like these diffuse a gloom over the fancy, which may be compatible enough with occasional and social merriment, but cannot fail to tincture the thoughts of a native in the hour of silence and solitude.