Anna Owena Hoyers: A Poetess of the Seventeenth Century

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Bryn Mawr College, 1915 - 131 pages
 

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Page 55 - For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted
Page 110 - Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother: 26 Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh.
Page 108 - Blessed be he of the Lord, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen. And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.
Page 109 - Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty...
Page 28 - Littera gesta docet, quid credas allegoria, Moralis quid agas, quo tendas anagogia.
Page 108 - So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest ; and dwelt with her mother in law.
Page 106 - Item in der ersten translatze dises buches von Euriolo vnd lucrecia wirt funden ain grosser fremder handel ainer bulschafft vnd darjnne alle aigenschaft der liebe vnd was die gebürt/ besunder daz darlnne allwegen entlich mer » bitterkait dann süsse vnd mer laides dann fröiden funden werd vnd darumb die syg zefliechen vnd zemyden.
Page 127 - Who cannot see that the parable of the ten virgins, ' five of whom were wise, and five were foolish...

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