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... truth , that mankind had transgressed in a pecul lar manner more than once , the emphasis would fall or first ; and the line be read " Of man's first disobedience , " & c . Again , admitting death ( as was really the case ) to have been ...
... truth , that mankind had transgressed in a pecul lar manner more than once , the emphasis would fall or first ; and the line be read " Of man's first disobedience , " & c . Again , admitting death ( as was really the case ) to have been ...
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... truth form the basis of every virtue . Disappointments and distress , are often blessings in dis- guise . Change and alteration , form the very essence of the world . True happiness is of a retired nature ; an enemy to pomp and noise ...
... truth form the basis of every virtue . Disappointments and distress , are often blessings in dis- guise . Change and alteration , form the very essence of the world . True happiness is of a retired nature ; an enemy to pomp and noise ...
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... truth and delicacy of his sensibility . When , upon rational and sober inquiry we have estab lished our principles , let us not suffer them to be shaken by the scoffs of the licentious , or the cavils of the sceptical . When we observe ...
... truth and delicacy of his sensibility . When , upon rational and sober inquiry we have estab lished our principles , let us not suffer them to be shaken by the scoffs of the licentious , or the cavils of the sceptical . When we observe ...
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... truths which the multitude do not tell him . A more sound instructer will lift his voice and awaken with- in the heart those latent suggestions , which the world had overpowered and suppressed . Amusement often becomes the business ...
... truths which the multitude do not tell him . A more sound instructer will lift his voice and awaken with- in the heart those latent suggestions , which the world had overpowered and suppressed . Amusement often becomes the business ...
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... truth . " L'Estrange , in his Fables , tells us that a number of frolic- some boys were one day watching frogs , at the side of a pond ; and that , as any of them put their heads above the water , they pelted them down again with stones ...
... truth . " L'Estrange , in his Fables , tells us that a number of frolic- some boys were one day watching frogs , at the side of a pond ; and that , as any of them put their heads above the water , they pelted them down again with stones ...
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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.