No Fiction: A Narrative, Founded on Recent and Interesting Facts, Volume 2Francis Westley, 1820 |
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... cast aside his reserve and communicated his feelings ; but he was grieved to the utter most to find he was reduced to such a state / of mental suffering . As soon as he well could , he wrote to him as follows : - Mr. Douglas to Mr ...
... cast aside his reserve and communicated his feelings ; but he was grieved to the utter most to find he was reduced to such a state / of mental suffering . As soon as he well could , he wrote to him as follows : - Mr. Douglas to Mr ...
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... cast away life - they die as suicides ! " How greatly am I concerned to find you , in your present state , resolving to ' forsake at once the world and religion , and to seek in retirement that peace neither of them can afford you ...
... cast away life - they die as suicides ! " How greatly am I concerned to find you , in your present state , resolving to ' forsake at once the world and religion , and to seek in retirement that peace neither of them can afford you ...
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... cast it back into the drawer . The same drawer contained her miniature likeness . He seized and opened it . It had an amiable and smiling expression . It spoke of tenderness supported by dignity . His hand trembled his lip quivered - he ...
... cast it back into the drawer . The same drawer contained her miniature likeness . He seized and opened it . It had an amiable and smiling expression . It spoke of tenderness supported by dignity . His hand trembled his lip quivered - he ...
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... assert ; ) and to excuse himself on that account . Having done this , he fastened the door and cast himself on his bed , indifferent alike to food - to com- VOL . II . F fort to life ! Even the habit of drinking , ch , 21 . 69 NO FICTION .
... assert ; ) and to excuse himself on that account . Having done this , he fastened the door and cast himself on his bed , indifferent alike to food - to com- VOL . II . F fort to life ! Even the habit of drinking , ch , 21 . 69 NO FICTION .
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... cast on others , was originally his own . From his worldly disappointments , he was thrown back upon his religious declensions , as the source of all evils . Conscience , from having slumbered so long , now awoke " to bite like an adder ...
... cast on others , was originally his own . From his worldly disappointments , he was thrown back upon his religious declensions , as the source of all evils . Conscience , from having slumbered so long , now awoke " to bite like an adder ...
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Page 202 - О that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Page 3 - For this reason these familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater use than the solemnities of professed morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions.
Page 136 - Take with you words, and turn unto the Lord, and say unto Him : Take away all iniquity and receive us graciously.
Page 203 - He hath brought me up out of the horrible pit and the miry clay ; and hath set my feet upon a rock, and hath established my goings ; and hath put a new song into my mouth, even praise to my God !' O, if I am saved it must be as
Page 216 - Mine ! — Oh, say not they are too cold, too slow to kindle. They are too easily roused, too ardent, too soon bent before an earthly idol ; but" here she laid her hand on his arm — "but the right hand must be cut off, the right eye plucked out. I would not again be their slave, under the tyranny and dominion of these elements of our fallen nature, for all the pomps and vanities which they would purchase. There be mightier obstacles than those of expediency, as thou dost well imagine, to thy suit...
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