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... soul is rendered the receptacle of many repug- nant and jarring dispositions , and resembles some barbarous country , cantoned out into different principalities , which are continually waging war on one another . Diseases , poverty ...
... soul is rendered the receptacle of many repug- nant and jarring dispositions , and resembles some barbarous country , cantoned out into different principalities , which are continually waging war on one another . Diseases , poverty ...
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... soul . SECTION X. WHENCE arises the misery of this present world ? It is not owing to our cloudy atmosphere , our changing seasons , and inclement skies . It is not owing to the debility of our bodies , nor to the unequal distribution ...
... soul . SECTION X. WHENCE arises the misery of this present world ? It is not owing to our cloudy atmosphere , our changing seasons , and inclement skies . It is not owing to the debility of our bodies , nor to the unequal distribution ...
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... soul is weary of life , " it becomes a wise and a good man , in the evil day , with firmness , to maintain his post ; to bear up against the storm ; to have recourse to those advantages which , in the worst of times , are always left to ...
... soul is weary of life , " it becomes a wise and a good man , in the evil day , with firmness , to maintain his post ; to bear up against the storm ; to have recourse to those advantages which , in the worst of times , are always left to ...
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... soul of Hazael abhorred , at this en time , the thoughts of cruelty . Uncorrupted , as yet , by ambition or greatness , his indignation rose at being thought at capable of the savage actions which the prophet had men- etioned ; and ...
... soul of Hazael abhorred , at this en time , the thoughts of cruelty . Uncorrupted , as yet , by ambition or greatness , his indignation rose at being thought at capable of the savage actions which the prophet had men- etioned ; and ...
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... a whole kingdom trembled before him ; one spirit , which the utmost stretch of his power could neither subdue nor humble , blasted his triumphs . His whole soul was shaken with a storm of passion 34 Part 1 , The English Reaaer.
... a whole kingdom trembled before him ; one spirit , which the utmost stretch of his power could neither subdue nor humble , blasted his triumphs . His whole soul was shaken with a storm of passion 34 Part 1 , The English Reaaer.
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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.