Scenes from Christian HistoryCrosby, Nichols, and Company, 1854 - 288 pages |
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... mother , he had been educated with the best training Rome could give him . His mother was the beautiful Agrippina , and she turned all her efforts early to secure him the throne , which he so early gained . When he began his reign , he ...
... mother , he had been educated with the best training Rome could give him . His mother was the beautiful Agrippina , and she turned all her efforts early to secure him the throne , which he so early gained . When he began his reign , he ...
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... mother . This spring , however , Nero , being at Baię , at his summer palace , sent to her a message to beg her to visit him there that they might reconcile these unnatural ani- mosities . Agrippina gladly accepted the invitation , and ...
... mother . This spring , however , Nero , being at Baię , at his summer palace , sent to her a message to beg her to visit him there that they might reconcile these unnatural ani- mosities . Agrippina gladly accepted the invitation , and ...
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... mother , without the suspicion of matricide . Upon the lake there would be few witnesses , and it was meant that this should be supposed to be a shipwreck , or accident of the sea . Of course he did not take passage himself on the fated ...
... mother , without the suspicion of matricide . Upon the lake there would be few witnesses , and it was meant that this should be supposed to be a shipwreck , or accident of the sea . Of course he did not take passage himself on the fated ...
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... mother's deliverance from the water , he sent a guard of soldiers to her palace ; and there , where she was deserted even by her last attendant , without pretence of secrecy , they put to death the daughter and the mother of a Cęsar ...
... mother's deliverance from the water , he sent a guard of soldiers to her palace ; and there , where she was deserted even by her last attendant , without pretence of secrecy , they put to death the daughter and the mother of a Cęsar ...
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... mother er ; and that her birthday should always be regarded as an unlucky day , when no business of state should be begun . received news of this decree , which somewhat quieted his fears . One of his flatterers ventured to assure him ...
... mother er ; and that her birthday should always be regarded as an unlucky day , when no business of state should be begun . received news of this decree , which somewhat quieted his fears . One of his flatterers ventured to assure him ...
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Page 226 - For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward.
Page 102 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 206 - And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth ; And the heavens are the works of thine hands: They shall perish; but thou remainest; And they all shall wax old as doth a garment; And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, And they shall be changed: But thou art the same, And thy years shall not fail.
Page 102 - Not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying; but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh™ in concupiscence.
Page 11 - And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
Page 167 - One part of his dress only remains, but it is too remarkable to be suppressed; it was a brass ring, resembling a dog's collar, but without any opening, and soldered fast round his neck, so loose as to form no impediment to his breathing, yet so tight as to be incapable of being removed, excepting by the use of the file. On this singular gorget was engraved in Saxon characters, an inscription of the following purport:—" Gurth, the son of Beowulph, is the born thrall of Cedric of Rotherwood.
Page 218 - Below him extended a vast chaos of rock and forest, and green savannahs and wandering streams, while at a distance the waters of the promised ocean glittered in the morning sun. At this glorious prospect Vasco Nunez sank upon his knees, and poured out thanks to God for being the first European to whom it was given to make that great discovery. He then called his people to ascend : " Behold, my friends," said he, " that glorious sight which we have so much desired.
Page 166 - His garment was of the simplest form imaginable, being a close jacket with sleeves, composed of the tanned skin of some animal...
Page 34 - Christ, as to a divinity, binding themselves by a solemn oath, not for the purposes of any wicked design, but never to commit any fraud, theft, or adultery, never to falsify their word, nor deny a trust when they should be called upon to •deliver it up; after which it was their custom to separate, and then reassemble, to eat in common a harmless meal.
Page 24 - By that event the sect, of which he was the founder, received a blow, which for a time checked the growth of a dangerous superstition ; but it revived soon after, and spread with recruited vigor, not only in Judea, the soil that gave it birth, but even in the city of Rome...