The Works of the Rev. John Newton ...N. Whiting, 1826 |
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... wish to be during my absence from you . I should be sorry to find this absence become more easy to me by time . Let it suffice that I eat , drink , and sleep well , and am in health and spirits to do ev- ery thing that may appear ...
... wish to be during my absence from you . I should be sorry to find this absence become more easy to me by time . Let it suffice that I eat , drink , and sleep well , and am in health and spirits to do ev- ery thing that may appear ...
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... wish we had a post every day . Liverpool , June 29 . THOUGH , at taking up the pen , I have not a single sentence ready , I expect something will soon occur , when I write to you . I am going to set you a pattern , how to fill a sheet ...
... wish we had a post every day . Liverpool , June 29 . THOUGH , at taking up the pen , I have not a single sentence ready , I expect something will soon occur , when I write to you . I am going to set you a pattern , how to fill a sheet ...
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... wish , yet be- fore it was too late , some alteration would take place in our fa- vour . Accordingly , this morning ... wishes , obviated the many hindrances in my way , and made me happy in you - surely it would be not only ungrateful ...
... wish , yet be- fore it was too late , some alteration would take place in our fa- vour . Accordingly , this morning ... wishes , obviated the many hindrances in my way , and made me happy in you - surely it would be not only ungrateful ...
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... wish , I dare not now complain ; because in gaining you I secured the principal aim of my life : a real good , which , if set in opposition to the little disappointments I meet with from without , outweighs them all . Nor need I envy ...
... wish , I dare not now complain ; because in gaining you I secured the principal aim of my life : a real good , which , if set in opposition to the little disappointments I meet with from without , outweighs them all . Nor need I envy ...
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... wish you nothing further till we happily meet . Could any thing en- hance the value of such marks of your affection , it would be my receiving them so unexpectedly . For I had long given them over for lost , or worse than lost , exposed ...
... wish you nothing further till we happily meet . Could any thing en- hance the value of such marks of your affection , it would be my receiving them so unexpectedly . For I had long given them over for lost , or worse than lost , exposed ...
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