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Page 20
... hour , his useless intentions and barren zeal . The spirit of true religion , breathes mildness and affability . It gives a native , unaffected ease to the behaviour . It is so- cial , kind , and cheerful : far removed from 20 Part 1 ...
... hour , his useless intentions and barren zeal . The spirit of true religion , breathes mildness and affability . It gives a native , unaffected ease to the behaviour . It is so- cial , kind , and cheerful : far removed from 20 Part 1 ...
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... hours with comfort , to lay up such a treasure of pleasing ideas , as shall support the expenses of that time , which is to depend wholly upon the fund already acquired SECTION V. W lost the government of himself ? THAT 22 Part 1 . The ...
... hours with comfort , to lay up such a treasure of pleasing ideas , as shall support the expenses of that time , which is to depend wholly upon the fund already acquired SECTION V. W lost the government of himself ? THAT 22 Part 1 . The ...
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... hours so fingering ? Who are so often devoured with spleen , and obliged to fly to every expedient , which can help them to get rid of themselves ? Instead of producing tranquillity , indolence produces a fretful restlessness of mind ...
... hours so fingering ? Who are so often devoured with spleen , and obliged to fly to every expedient , which can help them to get rid of themselves ? Instead of producing tranquillity , indolence produces a fretful restlessness of mind ...
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... hour should bring her to a like fate . She even saw his headless body carried back in a cart ; and found herself more confirm- ed by the reports which she heard of the constancy of his end , than shaken by so tender and melancholy a ...
... hour should bring her to a like fate . She even saw his headless body carried back in a cart ; and found herself more confirm- ed by the reports which she heard of the constancy of his end , than shaken by so tender and melancholy a ...
Page 39
... hours passed in violent fluctuation of opinion , sleep insensibly seized him in his chair . He dreamed that he was ranging a desert country , in search of some one that might teach him to grow rich ; and , as he stood on the top of a ...
... hours passed in violent fluctuation of opinion , sleep insensibly seized him in his chair . He dreamed that he was ranging a desert country , in search of some one that might teach him to grow rich ; and , as he stood on the top of a ...
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Page 91 - And now behold I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befal me there, save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying, that bonds and afflictions abide me.