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Being perfectly disposed to conform myself decisively to what shall be thought proper, you cannot oblige me more, than by communicating to me your sentiments hereon, which I shall receive as those of a friend, and govern myself accordingly. I am, with the most perfect esteem, Dear Sir, your friend and servant, Th: Jefferson. LETTER CXXI. TO JOHN JAY, October 6, 1785 Paris, October 6, 1785. Sir,
'I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. 2. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth. PSALM cxxi. 1, 2. The so-called 'Songs of Degrees, of which this psalm is one, are usually, and with great probability, attributed to the times of the Exile. If that be so, we get an appropriate background and setting for the expressions and emotions of this psalm.
As a rule four artists were employed, one beginning at each point of the cross. Each arm of the cross was completed by the artist who began the work. For illustration of painting see PL CXXI. The black cross-bars in the illustration denote pine logs; the white lines the froth of the water; the yellow, vegetable debris gathered by the logs; the blue and red lines, sunbeams.
As the Saint finished the first relation of her life in June, 1562, this is one of the additions subsequently made. Ch. xiv. section 7. Ch. xxvi. section 3, ch. xxxii. section 16. Psalm cxxi. See ch. xxx. section 2. Visions of the Sacred Humanity, and of the Glorified Bodies. Imaginary Visions. Great Fruits Thereof When They Come from God. I now resume our subject.
Mercy to Maria Teresa, February 18th, 1778, Arneth, iii., p. 170. See Coxe's "House of Austria," ch. cxxi. The war, which was marked by no action or event of importance, was terminated by the treaty of Teschen, May 10th, 1779.
The following is the translation from the original parchment: In the year 17 of Tiberius Caesar, Emperor of Rome and of all the world, unconquerable monarch: In the CXXI Olympiad; in the XXIV Illiad and of the creation of the world according to the number and count of the Hebrews, four times 1157; of the propagation of the Roman Empire, the year 73; of the deliverance from slavery to Babylon the year 430; and the restitution of the Holy Empire, the year 497.
The money-lender heard all that passed and was filled with shame at having earned the contempt of the jackal; he feared more disgrace on the morrow, so he at once called the crow and made her return the egret's nestlings, and the next morning when the jackal came back it found that everything had been settled to the satisfaction of the egret. CXXI. The Jackal and the Hare.
The rollicking politician, "Jim Coffroth," every Californian knew; the author of these lines was another man by the same name: Amid the Silence of the Night. "Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep." Psalm cxxi.
First missionary of the Canadian Presbyterian Church to China, by the Foreign Mission Committee, as a parting token of their esteem, when about to leave his native land for the sphere of his future labors among the heathen. WILLIAM MACLAREN, Convener. Ottawa, 9th October, 1871. Matthew xxviii: 18-20. Psalm cxxi It was a moment of severe trial to the young soldier.
My dear Mary left for Bristol, and I for London, on my way to Germany. I was led to read, this morning, Psalm cxxi. with my dear wife before we separated, which we both felt to be very appropriate to our circumstances. April 6. This evening I went on board the steamer for Hamburg. April 7. All the day ill from sea sickness. April 8. Lords day.
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