The Children's History of the Society of Friends: Chiefly Compiled from Sewell's History

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Hodges, Smith and Company, 1864 - 188 من الصفحات

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الصفحة 99 - Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
الصفحة 78 - Why sit'st thou here, Cassandra ? — Bethink thee with what mirth Thy happy schoolmates gather around the warm bright hearth ; How the crimson shadows tremble on foreheads white and fair, On eyes of merry girlhood, half hid in golden hair.
الصفحة 147 - Yet with calm and stately mien, Up the streets of Aberdeen Came he slowly riding ; And to all he saw and heard Answering not with bitter word, Turning not for chiding. Came a troop with broadswords swinging, Bits and bridles sharply ringing, Loose and free and froward ; Quoth the foremost, " Ride him down ! Push him ! prick him ! through the town Drive the Quaker coward." But from out the thickening crowd Cried a sudden voice and loud :
الصفحة 1 - God, who at sundry times, and in divers manners, spake in times past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son...
الصفحة 80 - And poisoning with his evil words the ruler's ready ear, The priest leaned o'er his saddle, with laugh and scoff and jeer ; It stirred my soul, and from my lips the seal of silence broke, As if through woman's weakness a warning spirit spoke.
الصفحة 148 - Nay, I do not need thy sword, Comrade mine," said Ury's lord ; " Put it up, I pray thee : Passive to His holy will, Trust I in my Master still, Even though He slay me. " Pledges of thy love and faith. Proved on many a field of death, Not by me are needed.
الصفحة 150 - Every age on him, who strays From its broad and beaten ways, Pours its seven-fold vial. Happy he whose inward ear Angel comfortings can hear, O'er the rabble's laughter ; And, while Hatred's fagots burn, Glimpses through the smoke discern Of the good hereafter.
الصفحة 81 - ... hold,— By the living God who made me ! I would sooner in your bay Sink ship and crew and cargo than bear this child away!" " Well answered, worthy captain, shame on their cruel laws!
الصفحة 79 - The hoar-frost melted on the wall, and upward from the street Came careless laugh and idle word, and tread of passing feet. At length the heavy bolts fell back, my door was open cast, And slowly at the...
الصفحة 77 - Alone, in that dark sorrow, hour after hour crept by; Star after star looked palely in and sank adown the sky ; No sound amid night's stillness, save that which seemed to be The dull and heavy beating of the pulses of the sea...

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