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... fuch a man an eloquent companion ; it tells him the hiftory of its ages , and reveals to him the fears of its experience : and fo minutely has the record been preserved for our philofopher , that the gust of wind blown many centuries ...
... fuch a man an eloquent companion ; it tells him the hiftory of its ages , and reveals to him the fears of its experience : and fo minutely has the record been preserved for our philofopher , that the gust of wind blown many centuries ...
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... fuch thing as trite or common- place in these confeffions ? In the literal tranf- cript of real life , rarely . It is true that the writer's moral or general reflections may , from the feeble- ness of his reason , be trite in the ...
... fuch thing as trite or common- place in these confeffions ? In the literal tranf- cript of real life , rarely . It is true that the writer's moral or general reflections may , from the feeble- ness of his reason , be trite in the ...
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... fuch peculiar ability , or fuch perfect but fequeftered virtue , fhould be fo little known , - that in his heart and memory only should furvive , and fo ultimately perish , a picture of excellencies quite unique , when blended in a ...
... fuch peculiar ability , or fuch perfect but fequeftered virtue , fhould be fo little known , - that in his heart and memory only should furvive , and fo ultimately perish , a picture of excellencies quite unique , when blended in a ...
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... fuch thing as wearying ; but , on the contrary , the reader is led onward by a quiet but increasing intereft , that makes the time lapse by infenfibly . There is throughout the volume , and especially in the earlier chapters , a ...
... fuch thing as wearying ; but , on the contrary , the reader is led onward by a quiet but increasing intereft , that makes the time lapse by infenfibly . There is throughout the volume , and especially in the earlier chapters , a ...
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... fuch castles in the air , that , tired as I was ( and going at the harrows from five in the morning to fix at night , on soft loose fand , is one of the most tiring days of work upon a farm ) , I took off my shoes , fcraped the earth ...
... fuch castles in the air , that , tired as I was ( and going at the harrows from five in the morning to fix at night , on soft loose fand , is one of the most tiring days of work upon a farm ) , I took off my shoes , fcraped the earth ...
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Page 162 - Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto ; whom no man hath seen, nor can see : to whom be honour and power everlasting.
Page 82 - With what to sight or smell was sweet, from thee How shall I part, and whither wander down Into a lower world, to this obscure And wild ? how shall we breathe in other air Less pure, accustom'd to immortal fruits?
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