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Page 44
... look wise , return , and assure the company that he could give no opinion upon an affair of so much importance . Yet there was sometimes an occasion for a more supported assurance . I remember to have seen him , after giving his opinion ...
... look wise , return , and assure the company that he could give no opinion upon an affair of so much importance . Yet there was sometimes an occasion for a more supported assurance . I remember to have seen him , after giving his opinion ...
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... look'd they found their horror grew , And shaped it into rods , and tingled at the view . So have I seen , ( who has not , may conceive , ) A lifeless phantom near a garden placed ; So doth it wanton birds of peace bereave , Of sport ...
... look'd they found their horror grew , And shaped it into rods , and tingled at the view . So have I seen , ( who has not , may conceive , ) A lifeless phantom near a garden placed ; So doth it wanton birds of peace bereave , Of sport ...
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... look upon it as an opportunity put into my hands to serve and glorify my great Creator , and shall look upon it as a call from heaven , as much as if I heard the Almighty say to me , I desire to have this person love me , and therefore ...
... look upon it as an opportunity put into my hands to serve and glorify my great Creator , and shall look upon it as a call from heaven , as much as if I heard the Almighty say to me , I desire to have this person love me , and therefore ...
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DAY SUBJECT 119 Of Improving by good Examples | 5 |
Primitive Christians | 9 |
Summer | 14 |
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