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The coming of the Messiah.

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...ALL that I have to say to thee, my venerable friend Christophilus, reduces itself to the serious and formal examination of one single point; which, in the present constitution or system of the church and the world, appears to me of the highest importance; viz. Whether the ideas which we entertain concerning the coming of Messiah, that essentia...

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...ART II...32 CHAPTER I.....33 CHAPTER II....46 CHAPTER III ....67 CHAPTER IV....85 CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY...113 TO THE READER....129 A CRITIQUE OF THE WORK ...130 DEDECATION....135 PREFACE.....137 PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE.....143 THE COMING OF MESSIAH...151 CHAPTER I.....151 CHAPTER II....160 CHAPTER III....163 CHAPTER IV....167 CHAPTER V.....168 ARTICLE I.......

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...T, LONDON MDCCCXXVII THIS EDITION PUBLISHED BY J G TILLIN ENGLAND © MM Coming of Messiah Vol. 1 -ii- CONTENTS DEDICATION. ............ ............................................................................129 A CRITIQUE OF THE WORK .................................................... ............................................................................143 THE COMING OF MESSIAH...................................................... ...rine of the second advent. It was this day twelve-months, a day to be remembered in the history of my ministry; for which, not I only, but many soul... ...e former advent of Christ and so avoid the second advent altogether, as an event in the history of the earth’s amelioration. But this is sufficiently... ...of the four horns. It is a thing quite usual in the discursive prophecies to derive the history of the sufferings of the church from so high a source... ...eclares so clearly in prophecy and history, that all the peoples of Syria, Mesopotamia, Palestine Tyre, Egypt, the Arabias, &c. were conquered by Ne... ...ort, almost the whole of Europe, Asia Minor, with all its kingdoms, Syria, Mesopotamia, Palestine, the three Arabias, Chaldea, Persia, Egypt, all the... ...hree ribs, when, besides Chaldea, Media, and Persia, he subdued also Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, the Arabias, and a considerable part of In...

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...RONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Pandora by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...t form of culture Mr. and Mrs. Day had brought back from Italy, Greece and Palestine—they had trav- elled for two years and been everywhere—especially... ...here whole ranges of competition and com- parison were absent. The natural history of this interest- ing creature was at last completely laid bare to ... ...she herself probably wouldn’t have been abashed even by the hero with whom history has taken fewest liberties. “You look as if you could hardly believ...

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...Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State University, El... ...at hath kissed the blessed tomb, And visited each holy shrine In Araby and Palestine; On hills of Armenie hath been, Where Noah’s ark may yet be seen;... ... Appeared the form of England’s king Who then, a thousand leagues afar, In Palestine waged holy war: Yet arms like England’s did he wield, Alike the l... ... Go seek them there and see; Mine is a tale of Flodden Field, And not a history. At length they heard the Scottish host On that high ridge had made... ... Such general superstition may Excuse for old Pitscottie say; Whose gossip history has given My song the messenger from heaven, That warned, in Lithgo... ...sh, and bursting sigh, And question kind, and fond reply:- VI. DE WILTON’S HISTORY. “Forget we that disastrous day, When senseless in the lists I lay....

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...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ...ry Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...d me to see where I am particularly deficient, viz. general knowl- edge of history, and a thorough acquaintance with Greek and Roman customs, law cour... ...n making out a stiff bit of Greek or Latin if I have time, but I must read History chiefly this year, and then I hope to be selected next time. My tut... ...ood common sense, and a well-read man). But I of course want to be reading history as well, and that involves a good deal; physical geography , geolog... ...onal fact, that though a mixture of Chaldee and Syriac was the language of Palestine in our Lord’s time, yet He certainly sometimes spoke what is now ...

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.... 5 ROMULUS ........................................................................................................................... 34 COMPARISON OF ROMULUS WITH THESEUS .............................................................. 64 LYCURGUS .......................................................................................................................... 68 ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings....

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...ic Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... and manners was perfect, Dr. Howard Littlefield proved it to them, out of history, economics, and the confessions of reformed radicals. Babbitt had a... ... this burg that say I’m a roughneck and a never-wuzzer and my knowledge of history is not-yet. Oh, there’s a gang of woolly-whiskered book-lice that t... ...what sets it in a class by itself; that’s why Zenith will be remembered in history as having set the pace for a civilization that shall endure when th... ...rab Sunday School books: “Hetty, a Humble Heroine” and “Josephus, a Lad of Palestine;” he thumbed once more the high-colored text-cards which no boy w...

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would...

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...Excerpt: The condition of the Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many...

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.................................................................................................................................... 8 SHE WAS A PHANTOM OF DELIGHT ................................................................................................................... 10 The REDBREAST and the BUTTERFLY. .................................................................

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...POEMS POEMS IN TWO VOLUMES, VOL. I. BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AUTHOR OF THE LYRICAL BALLADS. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication... ... Poems in T wo Volumes, Volume One by William Wordsworth is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...erd with a sigh 40 Looks round, to learn the history. From those abrupt and perilous rocks, The Man had fallen, that... ...: From the Castle forth they went. And at the head of their Array To Palestine the Brothers took their way. 40 Side by sid...

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...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to di...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................................

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...PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...upposed it—a simple reca- pitulation, or resumé, of the Roman imperatorial history. It moves rapidly over the ground, but still with an exploring eye,... ...ath- ered so thickly over the one solitary road 5 traversing that part of history. Glimpses of moral truth, or suggestions of what may lead to it; in... ...imagined, any liter- ary valuation of Cicero; it is a new reading of Roman history in the most dreadful and comprehensive of her convulsions, in that ... ...and yet shadowy above all things,—who had suffered the passion of death in Palestine, slept upon our minds like early dawn upon the waters. The nurse ... ...and images of death were entangled with those of summer, as connected with Palestine and Jerusa- lem, let me come back to the bed chamber of my sister... ...s arms descended from the heavens, that he and his young children, whom in Palestine, once and forever, he had blessed, though they must pass slowly t...

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... The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...h heaven. Manfred, who hoped by the confessor’s means to come at the youth’s history, readily granted his request; and being convinced that Father Jer... ...you are no longer Friar Jerome, but the Count of Falconara. Let me know your history; you will have time to moralise hereafter, if you should not happ... ... ceived the agreeable news that the confederate Princes who were warring in Palestine had paid his ransom. He instantly set out for the wood that had... ...orror. “Rise,” said he; “thy life is not my present purpose. But tell me thy history, and how thou camest connected with this old traitor here.” “My L...

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,00...

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... ...................................................................................................................................... 31 COMPARISON OF SERTORIUS WITH EUMENES................................................................. 50 AGESILAUS ............................................................................................................................

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... Plutarch’s Lives – Volume Two trans. Arthur Hugh Clough is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...mention for the sake of king Juba, of all monarchs the greatest student of history, whose ances- tors are said to have sprung from Diodorus and Sophax... ...t might be to gratify Pompey, whose father is described by Rutilius in his history, as the vilest man alive. From thence Pompey came to the city of Am... ... Albanians, Syria, Cilicia, and Mesopotamia, to- gether with Phoenicia and Palestine, Judaea, Arabia, and all 132 V olume Two the power of the pirate... ...L GESIL GESIL GESIL GESILA A A A AUS US US US US THUS HAVING DRAWN out the history of the lives of Agesilaus and Pompey, the next thing is to compare ...

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...their sister has children, and she will have to roam from room to room before the whitewashers, which is not what I should wish in the critical state of chest left by measles.?...

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...gnum Bonum, or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ildren’s lessons and other occupations left her free to indulge in it. The history of the travels, and the account of the discovery, were given and he... ...the first time you have tried such an examination, and boys never do learn history.” “Nor anything else in this happy town,” was the answer, accompani... ...Mr. Ogilvie had never heard them. Luckily the reading had just come to the history of the “Do as You Likes,” and the interview between the last of the... ...d died a natural death in the winter that had been spent between Egypt and Palestine. So far from picking up ideas from it there, Babie, in the actual... ...d had made their eyes light up by telling them of a scene he had beheld in Palestine, illus- trating the parable they had been repeating, when the cha...