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Spurgeon preached habitually at the Tabernacle on Sundays and Thursdays.
Spurgeon preached habitually at the Tabernacle on Sundays and Thursdays.
- On the death of Peter (1725) the internal tranquillity and progress of the empire were again seriously threatened by the uncertainty of the order of succession, and the autocratic power which he had wielded so vigorously passed into the hands of a series of weak, indolent sovereigns who were habitually guided by personal caprice and the advice of intriguing favourites rather than by serious political considerations.
The great officers of state acted habitually on the principle that might is right.
About 1852 he purchased a farm at Chappaqua, New York, where he afterwards habitually spent his Saturdays, and experimented in agriculture.