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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
Between the age of Charlemagne and that of the crusades, a revolution had taken place among the Spaniards, the Normans, and the French, which was gradually extended to the rest of Europe.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
I have expiated with pleasure on the first steps of the crusaders, as they paint the manners and character of Europe: but I shall abridge the tedious and uniform narrative of their blind achievements,…
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
Pleasure and guilt are synonymous terms in the language of the monks, and they discovered, by experience, that rigid fasts, and abstemious diet,…
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
Theological History Of The Doctrine Of The Incarnation.—The Human And Divine Nature Of Christ.—Enmity Of The Patriarchs Of Alexandria And Constantinople.—St.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 60: 1914 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"LORD make me to know my end and the measure of my days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am." Psalm 39:4. ACCORDING to the judgment of Calvin, and some of the ablest commentators, there is a kind of pettishness in this verse.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 30: 1884 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them, and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them: and it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel, and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night." Exodus 14:19-20.
History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey (1830-1907)
E QUAKER COLONIZATION—GEORGIA. THE bargainings and conveyancings, the confirmations and reclamations, the setting up and overturning, which, after the conquest of the New Netherlands, had the effect to detach the peninsula of New Jersey from the jurisdiction of New York, and to divide it for a time into two governments, belong to political history; but they had, of course,…
Harmony of the Law - Volume 1 by Calvin, John (1509-1564)
1. And the Lord spake. Although the institution of the Passover in some degree appertains to the Fourth Commandment, where the Sabbath and Feast-days will be treated of; yet, in so far as it was a solemn symbol Memorial.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 18: 1872 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"For you have not passed this way before." Joshua 3:4. THEY had come out of Egypt. They had gone up and down in the wilderness, but they had never before crossed the Jordan.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 05: 1859 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
“From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force,”—Matthew 11:12. WHEN JOHN THE BAPTIST preached in the wilderness of Judea, the throng of people who pressed around him became extremely violent to get near enough to hear his voice.