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Página 124 - ... and I, have founded empires ; but on what have we rested the creations of our genius '. Upon force. Only Jesus has founded an empire upon love ; and, at this moment, millions of men would die for him. It was not a day nor a battle that won the victory over the world for the Christian religion. No ; it was a long war, a fight of three centuries ; begun by the apostles, and continued by their successors and the Christian generations that followed.
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Página 141 - Worcester-House, and another Scotch gentleman with him, whose name I cannot call to mind. After dinner, as we were standing and talking together in the room, says my Lord Newborough to the other Scotch gentleman, who was looking very steadfastly upon my wife, " What is the matter, that thou hast had thine eyes fixed upon my Lady Cornbury2 ever since she came into the room ? Is she not a fine woman? Why dost thou not speak?"- — " She's a handsome Lady, indeed," said the gentleman,
Página 124 - ... see no army, but a mysterious force, and a few men scattered here and there through all parts of the world, and who had no rallying point but their faith in the mysteries of the cross. I die before my time, and my body will be put into the ground to become the food of worms. Such is the fate of the great Napoleon ! What an abyss between my deep wretchedness, and Christ's eternal kingdom, proclaimed, loved, adored, and spreading through the world ! Was that dying? Was it not rather to live ? The...
Página 141 - ... dye of it. Upon the ninth day after the small-pox appeared, in the morning, she bled at the nose, which quickly stopt ; but in the afternoon the blood burst out again with great violence at her nose and mouth, and about eleven of the clock that night she dyed, almost weltering in her blood. This is the best account I can now give of this matter, which tho...
Página 140 - House, and another Scotch gentleman with him, whose name I cannot call to mind. After dinner, as we were standing and talking together in the room, says my Lord Newborough to the other Scotch gentleman, (who was looking very steadfastly upon my wife) ' What is the matter that thou hast had thine eyes fixed upon my Lady Cornbury ever since she came into the room ? Is she not a fine woman ? Why dost thou not speak ?' ' She is a handsome lady indeed (said the gentleman), but I see her in blood.
Página 141 - Lady indeed," (said the gentleman,) " but I see her in blood." Whereupon my Lord Newborough laughed at him ; and all the company going out of the room, we parted : and I believe none of us thought more of the matter ; I am sure I did not. My wife was at that time perfectly well in health, and looked as well as ever she did in her life. In the beginning of the next month she fell ill of the smallpox : she was always very apprehensive of that disease, and used to say, if she ever had it she should...
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