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Her charity is known throughout the country, and appeals for the distressed are never made to her in vain. The Sicilian Court. Retirement of the duke. The Restoration. The return to Paris. Arrival in Paris. Reception by the Bourbons. Testimony of an American. Pride of the Bourbons. Madame de Genlis. Triumphal advance of Napoleon. Flight of Louis XVIII. Signal triumph of Napoleon.
Luke xviii. 1-8. For these reasons I gave myself again particularly to prayer last evening, that the Lord would send further means, being also especially led to do so, in addition to the above reasons, because there had come in but little comparatively since the 29th of last month.
Thus, in less than twenty-four hours, the same man had been entrusted to execute measures the most opposite, and to serve interests the most contradictory. He was one day the minister of usurpation, and the next the minister of legitimacy! How can I express what I felt when Fouche took the oath of fidelity to Louis XVIII. when I saw the King clasp in his hands the hands of Fouche!
Thus Hezekiah commanded the priests and Levites to do their duties, 2 Chron. xxix. 5, 24, and the people to do theirs, 2 Chron. xxx. 1; and for this he is commended, that therein he did cleave unto the Lord, and observed his precepts which he had commanded Moses, 2 Kings xviii. 6.
XVIII. it is not thine, but another man's sin. Why should it trouble thee? Let him look to it, whose sin it is. XIX. Of an operation and of a purpose there is an ending, or of an action and of a purpose we say commonly, that it is at an end: from opinion also there is an absolute cessation, which is as it were the death of it. In all this there is no hurt.
After the 18th Fructidor the Directory required the King of Prussia to send away Louis XVIII., and the Cabinet of Berlin, it must be granted, was not in a situation to oppose the desire of the French Government, whose wishes were commands. In vain Louis XVIII. sought an asylum in the King of Saxony's States.
He died through our sins, and we live through his righteousness. Gospel Luke xviii. 14. This man went down to his house justified rather than the other. Collect. that they, plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good works, may of thee be plenteously rewarded.
In the old ducal castle of Mittau, the capital of Courland, Louis XVIII. and his wife, with their nephews, the Ducs d'Angouleme He loved hunting as means of killing time; was given to early hours and innocent pleasures. He was a gentleman, and brave as became one. He had not the "gentlemanly vices" of his brother, and was all the better for it.
And the soul which thus sails forth into the sea of life finds itself not indeed freed from all storms of the spirit, but at least sure of its direction through them all. John xviii. 28-38.
There was not a trace of dandyism in him, and he reminded her immediately of a portrait she had seen of Edward Irving in a shop at Eastthorpe. He stood straight up in the pulpit reading from a little Testament he held in his hand, and when he had given out his text he put the Testament down and preached without notes. His subject was a passage in the life of Jesus taken from Luke xviii. 18
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