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It comes to the lowly and simple ; it comes to whomsoever will put off what is foreign and proud ; it comes as insight ; it comes as serenity and grandeur . When we see those whom it inhabits , we are apprised of new degrees of ...
It comes to the lowly and simple ; it comes to whomsoever will put off what is foreign and proud ; it comes as insight ; it comes as serenity and grandeur . When we see those whom it inhabits , we are apprised of new degrees of ...
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When I went abroad I kept company with every man on the road , for I knew that my evil and my good did not come ... It should , as it ought , go into my hands and feet ; but if it come not spontaneously , it comes not rightly at all .
When I went abroad I kept company with every man on the road , for I knew that my evil and my good did not come ... It should , as it ought , go into my hands and feet ; but if it come not spontaneously , it comes not rightly at all .
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Now and then comes a bolder spirit , ! should rather say , a more surrendered soul , more informed and led by God , which is much in advance of the rest , quite beyond their sympathy , but predicts what shall soon be the general fulness ...
Now and then comes a bolder spirit , ! should rather say , a more surrendered soul , more informed and led by God , which is much in advance of the rest , quite beyond their sympathy , but predicts what shall soon be the general fulness ...
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | vii |
FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND I | 1 |
RACE AND ABILITY II | 11 |
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