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Again was Red Dog in saddle, exhorting, declaiming, prophesying, but with no such ready result as during the winter days gone by. It was one thing to rally to the standard of a war chief and follow him on a raid against the agent of the Great Father when but a handful of soldiers could back the authorities.

I also made some reference to the dancing, in which they so much indulge at this time of the year, exhorting them not to keep up their parties late at night, to finish with reading and prayer, and not to be ashamed for the Bible to be seen on the table; also not to let the whiskey bottle appear.

The violence of his illness does not prevent him from exhorting his brethren He is touched at the fatigue which his illness caused them Thanks God for the pains he suffered Dictates a letter to Clare and her daughters Rejoices and thanks God for his approaching death Blesses his children Has himself carried to S. Mary of the Angels Blesses the town of Assisi Informs a pious widow of his approaching death Blesses his brethren a second time, and makes them eat a bit of bread, blessed by his hand Gives a special blessing to Bernard, the eldest of his children What we may presume were his dispositions in receiving the last sacraments He stretches himself naked on the bare ground Desires to be buried in the place of execution Exhorts his brethren He has the praises of God sung when at the point of death He speaks to his children, and blesses them for the last time Has the passion of Jesus Christ read to him He recites the 141st psalm, and dies after the last verse Miraculous proofs of his beatitude State of his body after death The Stigmata are seen and touched publicly His obsequies Clare and her daughters see and kiss the Stigmata He is buried at Assisi, in the church of S. George The circular written after his death His canonization The Church of S. Francis at Assisi He is buried there Researches are made to find the sacred body The mission of St.

Clouds of incense rose. In the adjoining building an earnest young preacher was exhorting a congregation of elderly and somnolent ladies to eschew the lusts of the flesh and to renounce the world and its gauds, marking each point in his discourse with raps of his fan.

We separate from them not in anger, not in malice, not for a selfish purpose, not to do them an injury, not to cease warning, exhorting, reproving them for their crimes, not to leave the perishing bondman to his fate O no!

This "method" she went on to describe, exhorting her son "in all things to act upon principle;" and the society which the brothers John and Charles afterwards founded at Oxford is supposed to have been in a great measure the result of her exhortations.

Impatient to unravel this clue, and to defeat its success, Manfred hastened to the convent, and arrived there as the Friar was earnestly exhorting the Princess never to yield to the divorce. "Madam," said Manfred, "what business drew you hither? why did you not await my return from the Marquis?" "I came to implore a blessing on your councils," replied Hippolita.

Exhorting or encouraging, as of an army by a general, is expressed with some part of the looks and action of courage. Jealousy would be likely to be well expressed by one, who had often seen prisoners tortured in the dungeons of the inquisition, or who had seen what the dungeons of the inquisition are the best earthly emblem of; I mean Hell.

As to your exhorting me in the same letter, as in many previous ones, to ambition and labour, I shall, of course, do as you say: but when am I to enjoy any real life? Your fourth letter reached me on the 13th of September, dated on the 10th of August from Britain. In it there was nothing new except about your Erigona, and if I get that from Oppius I will write and tell you what I think of it.

The panic spread rapidly, the host wavered, and had already begun to fly, when William, throwing off his helmet, rode among them, and exhorting some and striking others with a lance he had caught up, at last restored order, and the Breton infantry rallied and fell upon their pursuers, killing many and driving the rest back up the hill.