A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF At length, on the third day, at evening, they came to a village standing on a green with elms round it, very pretty to look at; and the people there all took off their hats, and made curtsies to my Lord ...
in Lesbos and on the continent opposite to prevent the fleet moving without his knowing it, and himself coasted along to Methymna, and gave orders to prepare meal and other necessaries, in order to attack them from Lesbos in the event of their remaining for any length of time at Chios....
The long voyages of Solomon and Necho had been limited to coasting Africa; the voyage of Alexander the Great had been from the Indus to the Persian Gulf; hence it was that the court of Euergetes was startled by the strange news that the Arabian guards on the coast of the Red Sea had...
On bright, clear days, when there is no mist at all, people standing on the coast of France, at the spot where the English Channel is narrowest, can just see the tall white chalk cliffs on the southern coast of England. These cliffs are so dazzlingly white that the people who lived i...
“Rainism” that cinched his status as K-pop’s most overtly sexy star. Over the top of a throbbing beat, he enticingly promises to be a “bad boy,” and the song makes good on that promise. Its lyrics — such as “trembling inside your shaking body is my magic stick” — were ...
Church History is the discipline that investigates and describes the history of the Christian church in its original life and thought as an entity of God's saving purposes in universal history.
Scripturally, a mind focused on the flesh is said to be in opposition to God. And yet flesh plays a primary role in the act of salvation: the Christian God enters the world incarnate, suffers a physical death, returns with a tangible resurrected body, and promises a similar corporeal resur...
who had removed during the previous winter. Soon after our arrival a conference was held in which the elders expected to receive additional powers to go forth and preach the gospel; and of a truth they did receive more strength and were encouraged through the promises given to them by the ...
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and then supported them with letters of encouragement and advice. Geneva thus became the centre of an international movement and a model for churches elsewhere.John Knox, the Calvinist leader of Scotland, described Geneva as “the most perfect school of Christ that ever was on the earth since ...