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Thus has it been to a great extained , and that “ hope full of immortality ” which tent with the discoveries in chronology and hisits promises have inspired . Under such circum- tory ; and thus will it be , we are confident ...
Thus has it been to a great extained , and that “ hope full of immortality ” which tent with the discoveries in chronology and hisits promises have inspired . Under such circum- tory ; and thus will it be , we are confident ...
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When may I hope to be at peace and die ? I'm living still ! Deny not from your store An alms to me , the poorest of the poor ! " From the N. Y. Tribune . THE HEART OF UNBELIEF . BY THOMAS L. HARRIS . NIGHT without star or eve or dawning ...
When may I hope to be at peace and die ? I'm living still ! Deny not from your store An alms to me , the poorest of the poor ! " From the N. Y. Tribune . THE HEART OF UNBELIEF . BY THOMAS L. HARRIS . NIGHT without star or eve or dawning ...
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O thou young lover ! hast thou wasted , secretly To youth , however , Memory is joyous as the forming her worshipped name on thy slate in future of Hope , also in some measure founded choicest caligraphy attainable to thee ! on chance ...
O thou young lover ! hast thou wasted , secretly To youth , however , Memory is joyous as the forming her worshipped name on thy slate in future of Hope , also in some measure founded choicest caligraphy attainable to thee ! on chance ...
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... with whom thou wilt at length find a despairing ; for to lose in a moment the hope of home for thy now weary soul ? years can be at no time a very exhilarating process Till such life - dawn shall break for him , must to go through .
... with whom thou wilt at length find a despairing ; for to lose in a moment the hope of home for thy now weary soul ? years can be at no time a very exhilarating process Till such life - dawn shall break for him , must to go through .
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... and this is the correspondence on the subject of transportation to opinion which the successive papers in the Times , the Cape of Good Hope , of later date than the whatever their motive may be , have a manifest address of the House ...
... and this is the correspondence on the subject of transportation to opinion which the successive papers in the Times , the Cape of Good Hope , of later date than the whatever their motive may be , have a manifest address of the House ...
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Page 254 - To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
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Page 27 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.
Page 339 - I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of madeira and a glass before him.
Page 138 - Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.