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Page 25
... scenes of heartfeit satisfaction succeed uninterruptedly to one another ! How many clear marks of benevolent intention appear U every where around us ! What a profusion of beauty and da ornament , is poured forth on the face of nature ...
... scenes of heartfeit satisfaction succeed uninterruptedly to one another ! How many clear marks of benevolent intention appear U every where around us ! What a profusion of beauty and da ornament , is poured forth on the face of nature ...
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... scenes of sore distress , which are passing at that mo- ment throughout the world ; multitudes struggling for a poor subsistence , to support the wife and children whom they love , and who look up to them , with eager eyes , for that ...
... scenes of sore distress , which are passing at that mo- ment throughout the world ; multitudes struggling for a poor subsistence , to support the wife and children whom they love , and who look up to them , with eager eyes , for that ...
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... scene , where their affections would be for ever united ; and where death , disappointment , and mis- fortunes , could no longer have access to them , or disturb their eternal felicity . 12 It had been intended to execute the lady Jane ...
... scene , where their affections would be for ever united ; and where death , disappointment , and mis- fortunes , could no longer have access to them , or disturb their eternal felicity . 12 It had been intended to execute the lady Jane ...
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... scenes of nature , on which the eye rests with pleasure . 6 Whereas the suspicious man , having his imagination fill- ed with all the shocking forms of human falsehood , deceit , and treachery , resembles the traveller in the wilderness ...
... scenes of nature , on which the eye rests with pleasure . 6 Whereas the suspicious man , having his imagination fill- ed with all the shocking forms of human falsehood , deceit , and treachery , resembles the traveller in the wilderness ...
Page 64
... blueness of the ether was exceedingly heightened and enlivened , by the season of the year , and the rays of all those luminaries that passed through it . The galaxy es В e scene , appeared in its most beautiful 64 The English Reader .
... blueness of the ether was exceedingly heightened and enlivened , by the season of the year , and the rays of all those luminaries that passed through it . The galaxy es В e scene , appeared in its most beautiful 64 The English Reader .
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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.