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Life of John Wesley Redfield by Terrill, Joseph Goodwin
While Mr. Redfield was engaged in the work of a physician at this time, he began seriously to consider the question of marriage. Nineteen years had gone by since his wife deserted him, and fourteen since the courts had given him a legal separation from her.
King James Version of the Holy Bible by Anonymous (Bible)
Chapter 3 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
Divine Comedy by Alighieri, Dante (1265-1321)
An end had put unto his reasoning The lofty Teacher, and attent was looking Into my face, if I appeared content; And I, whom a new thirst still goaded on, Without was mute, and said within: "Perchance The too much questioning I make annoys him." But that true Father, who had comprehended The timid wish, that opened not itself, By speaking gave me hardihood to speak.
Divine Comedy by Alighieri, Dante (1265-1321)
"Our Father, thou who dwellest in the heavens, Not circumscribed, but from the greater love Thou bearest to the first effects on high,…
Food for the Lambs; or, Helps for Young Christians by Orr, Charles Ebert (1861-1933)
The following beautiful language is found in Isa. 51:3: "For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall he found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody." Zion is a metaphor signifying the church of God.
Robert Falconer by MacDonald, George (1824-1905)
CHAPTER XVIII. A GRAVE OPENED. ONE thing that troubled Robert on this his return home, was the discovery that the surroundings of his childhood had deserted him. There they were, as of yore, but they seemed to have nothing to say to him--no remembrance of him.
ANF05. Fathers of the Third Century: Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
Refutation of All Heresies by Hippolytus of Rome (170-235)
.—Valentinus’ Explanation of the Existence of Jesus; Power of Jesus Over Humanity. After, then, there ensued some one (treaty of) peace and harmony between all the Æons within the Pleroma,…
Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery by Herbermann, Charles George (1840-1916)
The middle part of the German colony, German Southwest Africa, between 19° and 23° S. lat., 14° and 20° long. Moving from the Atlantic coast towards the interior the traveller meets first a sand-belt of forty-two miles, stripped of all vegetation and covered with gigantic sand-dunes; then a strip of desert land about ninety miles broad, with rugged, bare mountains and wide, barren sand-plains.…
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims by Anonymous (Bible)
... tabernacle of the testimony was with our fathers in the desert, as God ordained for them, speaking to ...
New Testament, An American Translation by Anonymous (Bible)
Chapter 7 The high priest said, “Is this statement true?” He answered, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The glorious God appeared to our forefather Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran, and he said to him, ‘Leave your country and your relatives and come to the country that I will show you.’ So he left the country of the Chaldeans and went to live in Haran,…