But of the more exalted beings who have like him emanated from the common principle of all existence, Man, since his advent on the earth, though not the creator, is the preserver or the destroyer.

Yet he begins this inquiry by this declaration: "That there is a supreme being, infinitely powerful, wise, and benevolent, the great creator and preserver of all things, is a truth so clearly demonstrated, that it shall be here taken for granted."

You have often thanked me as the preserver of your life, but you little knew the deep interest I had in its safety.

But in her most private and humble petitions to God, she never forgot to mingle with her requests for spiritual blessings on herself, fervent prayers for the conversion of the preserver of her life.

Say, on your way down tell the barhop to mix me up a life preserver in a rose glass.

Your actual preserver was a young girl.

Now, good-byethough I haven't introduced myselfnot knowing the name of my kind preserver.

In the porch under the façade of St Peter's are two marble statues on horseback, one at each end of the porch: they represent Constantine the Great and Charlemagne, the two great benefactors of the holy Catholic Church; the one, in fact, its founder, the other its preserver.

Gilliatt, his son, his preserver, should marry Dérouchettehe, and none other.

The only remark she vouchsafed to her former preserver was a whispered

Among them the Lord and Lady Aylmer, former Governor of Canada, Lord Elgin and son, the Celebrated preserver, not depredator (as he has been most slanderously called) of the Phidian Marbles.

Were you my preserver?" "Your preserver was the plague," rejoined Disbrowe, in a sombre tone.

Were you my preserver?" "Your preserver was the plague," rejoined Disbrowe, in a sombre tone.

In the meantime her husband had got about half way to the residence of his preserver, when his quick ear detected the sound made by the feet of horses, and as he stopped to listen more intently, the sharp crack of a rifle sent him bounding back to his concealment in the forest.

Oh, my, yes, and a life-preserver besides!" "How?" asked Buddy.

She seemed to have an inexhaustible fund of them in reserve which she could deftly strap on as life-preserver at the first far sign of danger.

One would never develop strength on a life-preserver.

In the talks they had together the great man's son continually expatiated upon his preserver's brilliant prospects.

The third aspect, Vishnu, was God in his character of loving protector and preserver.

Brahma as Creator can hardly do this, but Vishnu as Preserver agrees to intervene and plans are laid.

They illustrate his attitudes, confirm him in his role as protector and preserver and show him in a new lightthat of a guardian and upholder of morality.

He had the French Guards and the Swiss set at liberty; and they defiled before him, arms lowered and bareheaded, as before their preserver.

this man may have been my preserver, after all!

I beheld once more the preserver of my life; the instrument, under Providence, of restoring me to my home, my family, and my friends, and I regarded him with no ordinary emotion.

Fields had always been afraid of water and had worn a life preserver every day since we left the wagons.