Papers and Proceedings of the Connecticut Valley Historical Society ..., المجلد 4The Society, 1912 |
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الصفحة 171 - To deny the possibility, nay, actual existence, of witchcraft and sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God, in various passages both, of the Old and New Testament...
الصفحة 104 - There's not a day but, to the man of thought, Betrays some secret that throws new reproach On life, and makes him sick of seeing more.
الصفحة 56 - Which not for warmth, but ornament, is worn; For the kind spring, which but salutes us here, Inhabits there, and courts them all the year.
الصفحة 166 - A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death : they shall stone them with stones ; their blood shall be upon them.
الصفحة 36 - ... that selling them provisions for money was contrary to the laws of nations, but if they would send in a captive for every five bushels of corn, I would supply them.
الصفحة 178 - You are a liar ; I am no more a witch than you are a wizard ; and if you take away my life, God will give you blood to drink.
الصفحة 104 - Humility. 1 WHEREFORE should man, frail child of clay, Who, from the cradle to the shroud, Lives but the insect of a day — O ! why should mortal man be proud ? 2 His brightest visions just appear, Then vanish, and no more are found ; The stateliest pile his pride can rear A breath may level with the ground.
الصفحة 117 - Great art is the expression of the mind of a great man, and mean art, that of the want of mind of a weak man. A foolish person builds foolishly, and a wise one, sensibly; a virtuous one, beautifully ; and a vicious one, basely. If stone work is well put together, it means that a thoughtful man planned it, and a careful man cut it, and an honest man cemented it. If it has too much ornament, it...
الصفحة 105 - Our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity we have had our conversation in the world...
الصفحة 148 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.