Heroes of the Cross: Or, Studies in the Biography of Saints, Martyrs and Chritian PioneersJ. Masters, 1880 - 479 páginas |
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... labour so multifarious and so incessant ? Poet , missionary , traveller , warrior , ruler ; in his life - time he played many parts , and played each well . More correctly speaking , he played no part , for he was all that he appeared ...
... labour so multifarious and so incessant ? Poet , missionary , traveller , warrior , ruler ; in his life - time he played many parts , and played each well . More correctly speaking , he played no part , for he was all that he appeared ...
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... labour and repent in yonder island of Tiree for seven years , and after that I will see thee again . " " But how , " continued the sufferer , " am I to expiate a perjury of which I have not yet spoken ? Before I left my country I slew a ...
... labour and repent in yonder island of Tiree for seven years , and after that I will see thee again . " " But how , " continued the sufferer , " am I to expiate a perjury of which I have not yet spoken ? Before I left my country I slew a ...
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... labour among a people fortified in their prejudices against truth by their Druids or magicians , " a set of men inspired and animated by the devil , and in great credit and authority with this people , " through their " charms ...
... labour among a people fortified in their prejudices against truth by their Druids or magicians , " a set of men inspired and animated by the devil , and in great credit and authority with this people , " through their " charms ...
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... spiritual growth ; but even in his most engrossing mental labour he still saw the image of his mother warning him that she had bred and educated him in a higher and holier hope . On one occasion , he was proceeding 54 HEROES OF THE CROSS .
... spiritual growth ; but even in his most engrossing mental labour he still saw the image of his mother warning him that she had bred and educated him in a higher and holier hope . On one occasion , he was proceeding 54 HEROES OF THE CROSS .
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... labour , to convert ; is one of the most beautiful in our nature . With Bernard it was very strong ; and having thrown off the fetters of the world , he keenly desired that his brothers and kins- men should rejoice in an equal freedom ...
... labour , to convert ; is one of the most beautiful in our nature . With Bernard it was very strong ; and having thrown off the fetters of the world , he keenly desired that his brothers and kins- men should rejoice in an equal freedom ...
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Abbot Adamnan Anne Askew Apostle assistance beautiful Bernard Bishop Bishop of Belley blessed brethren brother called Catharine character charity Christian Church Church of England Citeaux Clairvaux cloth Columba confession courage Cross Crown 8vo death desire devotion Divine doctrine duties eloquence exclaimed eyes faith father favour Fcap Florence Frà Francis Francis de Sales friars friends gave Girolamo Savonarola GOD's Gospel grace hand heart Heaven Holy honour Iona island JESUS CHRIST John Coleridge Patteson King labour learned live LORD Martyn meditation mind mission missionary monks ness never night noble Patteson peace Picts poor Pope pray prayer preach preacher priest Raymond of Capua received religious replied Rome Sacrament saint Savonarola says seemed sent sermons sick Siena Signory soul spirit suffer teaching thee things thou thought tion truth Vincent Vincent de Paul voice words Xavier young zeal
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Página 19 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Página 427 - O GoD, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast, And our eternal home.
Página 83 - He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much : and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
Página 122 - And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God : but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
Página 20 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground •which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Página 323 - First, that in the most blessed Sacrament of the Altar, by the strength and efficacy of Christ's mighty word (it being spoken by the priest), is present really, under the form of bread and wine, the natural body and blood of our Saviour Jesus Christ, conceived of the Virgin Mary ; and that after the consecration there remaineth no substance of bread or wine, nor any other substance, but the substance of Christ, God and man.
Página 334 - Who in the same night that He was betrayed took bread, and, when He had given thanks, He brake it, and gave it to His disciples, saying, Take, eat ; this is My Body, which is given for you : do this in remembrance of Me.
Página 345 - Rather than thus our wills too strong for it. His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might Be wrong ; his life, I'm sure, was in the right...
Página 476 - It is a review of the cares, the duties, the troubles of life ; the consolations that enable souls to bear, the principles upon which it behoves them to act ; the hopes that brighten the darkest prospects of the traveller through the world. It is no unworthy gift to the Church from one who has served her so well by his pen in past time.
Página 422 - O that I had wings like a dove ! then would I flee away and be at rest.