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Page 62
... Prayer looks abroad and asks for some foreign addition to come through some foreign virtue , and loses itself in endless mazes of natural and supernatural , and mediatorial and miraculous . Prayer that craves a particular commodity ...
... Prayer looks abroad and asks for some foreign addition to come through some foreign virtue , and loses itself in endless mazes of natural and supernatural , and mediatorial and miraculous . Prayer that craves a particular commodity ...
Page 63
... prayers Discontent is the want of self - reliance : it is infirmity of will . Regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer ; if not , attend your own work and already the evil begins to be repaired . Our sympathy is just as ...
... prayers Discontent is the want of self - reliance : it is infirmity of will . Regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer ; if not , attend your own work and already the evil begins to be repaired . Our sympathy is just as ...
Page 195
... echoes to him a sentiment of his infancy , a prayer of his youth , he then pierces to the truth through all the confusion of tradition and the caricature of institutions . Rare , extravagant spirits come by us at intervals , 195.
... echoes to him a sentiment of his infancy , a prayer of his youth , he then pierces to the truth through all the confusion of tradition and the caricature of institutions . Rare , extravagant spirits come by us at intervals , 195.
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