Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent Writers from the Time of Pericles to the Present DayLippincott, 1894 - 555 pages |
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... body of the people , is by our naval expeditions , or engaged in the called a democracy . How different soever different quarters of our service by land . in a private capacity , we all enjoy the same But if anywhere they engage and ...
... body of the people , is by our naval expeditions , or engaged in the called a democracy . How different soever different quarters of our service by land . in a private capacity , we all enjoy the same But if anywhere they engage and ...
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... body ? a person of illus- trious birth , of ancient family , of innumer- able statues , but - of no experience ! What service would his long line of dead ancestors , or his multitude of motionless statues . do his country in the day of ...
... body ? a person of illus- trious birth , of ancient family , of innumer- able statues , but - of no experience ! What service would his long line of dead ancestors , or his multitude of motionless statues . do his country in the day of ...
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... body , discourses are not thought the most efficacious remedies ; but I am persuaded also that the malady of the soul ought to be cured by spiritual applica tions . If we see a friend in distress and give him all the consolation we are ...
... body , discourses are not thought the most efficacious remedies ; but I am persuaded also that the malady of the soul ought to be cured by spiritual applica tions . If we see a friend in distress and give him all the consolation we are ...
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... body was at rest ; then they heard this joyful tidings of the Saviour of the world for these shepherds were keeping their sheep in the night season from the wolf and other beasts , and from the fox ; for the sheep in that country do ...
... body was at rest ; then they heard this joyful tidings of the Saviour of the world for these shepherds were keeping their sheep in the night season from the wolf and other beasts , and from the fox ; for the sheep in that country do ...
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... body could have found in that from which it had restrained itself . They are also persuaded that God will make up the loss of those small pleasures with a vast and endless joy , of which religion does easily convince a good soul . Thus ...
... body could have found in that from which it had restrained itself . They are also persuaded that God will make up the loss of those small pleasures with a vast and endless joy , of which religion does easily convince a good soul . Thus ...
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