...t that we could not attain to the feelings in the Confirmation poem in the Christian Y ear— Mr. Castleford’s gift to me. Still, I believe that, though... ...d that northern front door, and later nerves that narrow verge, and on the eastern front had been added that Gothic porch of which Emily had heard,—an... ... and built of the cream-coloured stone of the country. It was at the south-eastern angle, where the ground began sloping so near the house that this w... ...ers in the mullion rooms (as they were called) being se- cured by his good offices. And Chapman was right. The unaccountable noises broke out again—sc... ...sweet cottage bonnet’s owner was called Ellen, which just then was the pet Christian name of romance, in honour of the Lady of the Lake. In the midst ... ...made the first visit, for the rejoinder was— ‘Yes; grandpapa said it was a Christian duty to make an advance; but they need not have come so soon. Ind... ...the faggots of a big wood-pile so as to cut off the communication with the offices. Only Chapman and one other man gave any help in this; and presentl... ...adually, and have ever since been undo- ing them, as our architectural and ecclesiastical perceptions have advanced. I wonder how the next generation ... ...skets and bags, and, as we were given to under- stand, discussing by turns ecclesiastical questions, visionary sisterhoods, and naughty children. At f...

...men, that the bodies of the criminals will be given up to their widows for Christian burial? Now, the doubts which were raised as to our powers did mo... ...ty minutes for eleven miles, could the royal mail pretend to undertake the offices of sympathy and condolence? Could it be expected to pro- vide tears... ... most read- ers will see little more than the essential difference between Christianity and Paganism. But this, on consideration, I doubt. The Christi... ...human piety. It is not so much a doctrine built upon the eternities of the Christian system as a plausible opinion built upon special varieties of phy... ... those days, the oblique and lateral com- munications with many rural post-offices were so arranged, either through necessity or through defect of sys... ...s, at height insuperable to man, rose an altar of purest alabaster. On its eastern face was trembling a crimson glory. A glory was it from the reddeni... ...der for days in their sylvan recesses. The mountains of the Vosges, on the eastern frontier of France, have never attracted much notice from Europe, e... ...ed at all; some only suspected; and others discharged without noise by war offices and other absurd people. In our navy, both royal and commercial, an... ...interdict as that pronounced in 1200, by Innocent III, against France. All ecclesiastical functions were suspended and the land was in desolation.”—HA...

...ive assault upon the total position of the Romans. In An Open Letter to the Christian Nobility 1 Luther demolished the three walls behind which Rom... ...could he set forth, in language of almost lyrical rapture, The Freedom of a Christian. 2 Luther was thinking of such a treatise long before it was ... ...into captivity under the tyranny of the Babylonian Empire, so in Europe the Christians have been carried away from the Scriptures and made subject to... ...hurch is a common designation for that entire branch of Christendom known as Eastern Orthodoxy, which was split from Western or Latin Christianity in... ...I, who accepted the validity of the imperative or deprecatory formula of the Eastern church. 121 Alexander of Hales (d. 1245) denied the validity of... ... come to pass that the churchmen of our day are such vigorous guardians of “ecclesiastical liberty”—that is, of wood and stone, of lands and rents (f... ...—that is, of wood and stone, of lands and rents (for to such an extent has “ecclesiastical” today come to mean the same as “spiritual”!). Yet with su... ...all marriages that may have been contracted 171 in any way contrary to the ecclesiastical or pontifical laws. But let them arm themselves with the ... ...ateran Council of 1215 had decreed that no one could simultaneously hold two offices involving pastoral care. The clever and lucrative ways in which ...

...otec- tion of any of the petty kings in their vicinity, accepted of feudal offices in his household, or bound themselves by mu- tual treaties of allia... ... been dislodged from their places, probably by the zeal of some convert to Christianity, and lay, some prostrate near their former site, and others on... ...ground, and on which were richly em- broidered, mitres, crosses, and other ecclesiastical emblems. Another lay brother led a sumpter mule, loaded prob... ...Oriental form of their garments, showed them to be natives of some distant Eastern country.* The whole appearance of this warrior and his retinue was ... ...ue was wild and outlandish; the dress of his squires was gorgeous, and his Eastern attendants wore silver collars round their throats, and bracelets o... ...preserved in the martial exercise called El Jerrid, still practised in the Eastern countries. The steeds of these attendants were in appearance as for... ...the Templar, “my Saracen slaves are true Moslems, and scorn as much as any Christian to hold intercourse with a Jew.” “Now, in faith,” said Wamba, “I ... ...d by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? 39 Sir Walter Scott and hesitation, and many a bow of deep h... ...eir pre- decessors in office. Of these laymen, who were thus invested with ecclesiastical revenues, some were men of high birth and rank, like the fam...

...tell themselves that all this singing denotes the conclusion of two yearly ecclesiastical parliaments – the parliaments of Churches which are brothers... ... the chalk boundary be over- stepped for ever. Alas! to those who know the ecclesiastical history of the race – the most perverse and melancholy in ma... ...his world more dismal than that of the Sabbath bells in Edinburgh: a harsh ecclesiastical tocsin; the outcry of incongruous orthodoxies, calling on ev... ...mity of zeal; and few more deplorable defections than this disloy- alty to Christian love. Shakespeare wrote a comedy of ‘Much 23 Robert Louis Steven... ...ely approach to Princes Street from the east, lined with hotels and public offices, makes a leap over the gorge of the Low Calton; if you cast a glanc... ...rass, unmindful of their master’s excitations. Kirk Yetton forms the north-eastern angle of the range; thence, the Pentlands trend off to south and we...

...e exciting than his life in this country, which was passed in the tranquil offices of love and duty; and I shall say no more by way of introduction to... ...er forgave him), and where his second brother Edward, who had embraced the ecclesiastical profession, was slain on Castlewood Tower, being engaged the... ...ns, whose battery was on the height facing the western court; so that this eastern end bore few marks of demolition, save in the chapel, where the pai... ...e in one of his blunt ways and ordinary rough manner. He called her by her Christian name often and fondly, was very soft and gentle with the children... ...nd being lax about church generally, he went thither and performed all the offices (down even to listening to Dr. Tusher’s sermon) with great devotion... ... tian Hero,” and had all the Guards to laugh at him for his pains, for the Christian Hero was breaking the commandments con- stantly, Westbury said, a...

...o earliest years, to delay would often be to dis- inherit the child of its Christian privileges; privileges not the less eloquent to the feelings from... ...epa- rated and sequestrated. Ground the most hallowed, and popu- lous with Christian burials of households, “That died in peace with one another. Fath... ...y because he was a brilliant scholar, and stands like a bridge between the Christian literature and the Pagan,—Addison had read and esteemed. There wa... ...me the military headquarters for the queen in 1644, when marching from the eastern coast of England to join the king in Oxford; and one such special v... ...Pope, there was a custom, arising from the collision between the civil and ecclesiastical year, of dating the whole period that lies between December ... ...e he had been four months at this school, or was able to construe T ully’s Offices, employed his muse in satirizing his master. It was a libel of at l... ...hort period of two years. This insurance was repeated in several different offices, until a sum of 18,000 pounds had been secured in the event of thei... ...lf of this claim, he endeavored to make this assignment available. But the offices, which had vainly endeavored to extract from the young ladies any s...

...s. Ratcliffe Highway is a public thoroughfare in a most chaotic quarter of eastern or nautical London; and at this time (viz., in 1812), when no adequ... ... that might be mentioned), the rule evidently acted upon by the Founder of Christianity was this—Given the purifica- tion of the well-head, once assum... ...character of their thoughts and expectations. He that in the early days of Christianity should have proclaimed the true theory of the solar system, or... ...re inevitable under the same agency: that is, in the case of any primitive Christian teacher having attempted to speak the language of scientific trut... ...ble than Dr. Grey’s I will refer the reader to a work of our own days, the Ecclesiastical Biography [in part a republication of Walton’s Lives] edited... ...e Long Parliament,—it was a passage in a very pleas- ing work of this day (Ecclesiastical Biography) which suggested to me the whole of what I have no... ...of an annuity office. So fare all companies East and West, and all annuity offices, that stand opposed in interest to philosophers! In 1814, however, ... ...y making part of the establishment and furniture of a great city as police-offices, lamp-lighting, or newspapers. Waiving however this one instance of...

...lties, was doubtless the intense sympathy which she met with. And in these offices of consolation my wife stood foremost. For, and that was fortunate,... ...an other qualities of greater name and pretension. Hannah was this woman’s Christian name; and her name and her memory are to me amongst the most hall... ...s of ruffians, prostitutes, felons, stood the description, at full length, Christian and surnames all properly registered, of my Agnes—of her whose ve... ...was my horror at learning that, by a recent regulation of all the po- lice-offices, under the direction of the public minister who presided over that ... ...n some other plea made good by gifts or bribes— some by Jews and others by Christians, perhaps equally Jew- ish. Superadded to these stationary elemen... ...arose in her history subsequently amongst all the men of rank, military or ecclesiastical, whether in Italy or Spain. The date of these would range be... ...te departure; that is, for signifying whether the settled intention of the Eastern Kalmucks might not have been suddenly interrupted by ad- verse inte... ... those intrigues by which Zebek-Dorchi had practised upon the pride of the Eastern tribes, now stepped in to save their people from ruin. Be the cause... ...houses, and themselves, had it not been for this disappoint- ment. But the Eastern chieftains did not dare to put to haz- ard the safety of their bret...

...En- chantress; or gallantly presenting her with dwarf Negroes;— and a Most Christian King has unspeakable peace within doors, whatever he may have wit... ...which nevertheless hangs won- drously as by a single hair. Should the Most Christian King die; or even get seriously afraid of dying! For, alas, had n... ...beleagured and bewitched him. Behold the new morning glit- tering down the eastern steeps; fly, false Phantasms, from its shafts of light; let the Abs... ...dness of face, which old Mirabeau now looks on, in a Nation calling itself Christian, and calling man the brother of man,—what unspeakable, nigh infin... ...nne, who had all his life ‘felt a kind of predesti- nation for the highest offices, ’ has now therefore obtained them. He presides over the Finances; ... ...s, sanctioning or reject- ing Laws; and withal disposing of its places and offices by sale for ready money,—which method sleek President Henault, af- ... ...al-Allemand, nor any soldier now there. Gone is military order. On the far Eastern Boulevard, of Saint-Antoine, the Chasseurs Normandie arrive, dusty,... ...hile there is grain, on highways or the Rhone-waters, over all that South- Eastern region,—where also if Monseigneur d’Artois saw good to break in fro... ...d, in carmagnole complete: the first exploit is to prostrate what Royal or Ecclesiastical monument, crucifix or the like, there may be; to plant a can...

...the Quaker, “nor any of my brethren.” “Zounds!” say I to him, “you are not Christians, then.” “Friend,” replies the old man in a soft tone of voice, “... ...t tone of voice, “swear not; we are Chris- tians, and endeavour to be good Christians, but we are not of opinion that the sprinkling water on a child’... ...are not of opinion that the sprinkling water on a child’s head makes him a Christian.” “Heavens!” say I, shocked at his impiety, “you have then forgot... ... to assist our poor, to bury our dead, or to preach to the brethren. These offices are all of too tender a nature for us ever to entrust them to other... ...ast the members of it had the 21 V oltaire liberty to meet, to dispute on ecclesiastical matters, to sen- tence impious books from time to time to th... ...ed as absolutely of the lives and fortunes of his conquered subjects as an eastern mon- arch; and forbade, upon pain of death, the English either fire... ...t of them, as though these assemblies then called Parliaments, composed of ecclesiastical tyrants and of plunderers entitled barons, had been the guar...

...count that Jowler married Mrs. J., a creature who had not, I do believe, a Christian name, or a single Christian quality: she was a hideous, bloated, ... ...tres. She consumed the first three platefuls with a fork and spoon, like a Christian; but as she warmed to her work, the old hag would throw away her ... ... and I hoped thus, with luck, impudence, and a complete command of all the Eastern dialects and languages, from Burmah to Afghanistan, to pass scot-fr... ...adopt some of the phraseology pe- culiar to my own country; which is so un-eastern, that, had there been any suspicion as to my real character, detect... ..., attar of roses (in great quart- bottles), and the thousand delicacies of Eastern life. I motioned them away. “I will wear my armor,” said I; I shall... ...fs. “I have,” said I, “unbelieving dogs! I have. Do you think to pervert a Christian gentleman from his faith and honor? Ruf- fian blackamoors! do you... ...up at the FIRST reveille of the bell, and engaged (the honest fellows!) in offices almost menial for the benefit of their French allies. The Duke hims... ...he Prince his life; but, no doubt misguided by the advice of his noble and ecclesiastical counsellors, treated the illustrious English Duke with marke... ...the enemy’s troops. Their valor was ably sec- onded by the gallantry of my ecclesiastical friends: at a mo- ment of danger they rallied round my banne...

...e exciting than his life in this country, which was passed in the tranquil offices of love and duty; and I shall say no more by way of introduction to... ...er forgave him), and where his second brother Edward, who had embraced the ecclesiastical profession, was slain on Castlewood Tower, being engaged the... ...ns, whose battery was on the height facing the western court; so that this eastern end bore few marks of demolition, save in the chapel, where the pai... ...e in one of his blunt ways and ordinary rough manner. He called her by her Christian name often and fondly, was very soft and gentle with the children... ...nd being lax about church generally, he went thither and performed all the offices (down even to listening to Dr. Tusher’s sermon) with great devotion... ... tian Hero,” and had all the Guards to laugh at him for his pains, for the Christian Hero was breaking the commandments con- stantly, Westbury said, a... ... he would have taken that kind one of his mistress, which had done so many offices of friendship for him for so many years. But the Lady Castlewood we... ... I am a humble preacher, that had I not dedicated my little volume of the ‘Christian Hero’—(I perceive, Harry, thou hast not cut the leaves of it. The...