Retrospective Review, 11. köideHenry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas C. and H. Baldwyn, 1825 |
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... head , though they endeavoured it , my body being , as it were , dried up with sorrows , griefs , and troubles , which were so great upon me , that I could have wished I had never been born , or that I had been born blind , that I might ...
... head , though they endeavoured it , my body being , as it were , dried up with sorrows , griefs , and troubles , which were so great upon me , that I could have wished I had never been born , or that I had been born blind , that I might ...
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... heads than his afterwards gave speciousness to it ; but if blasphemy be a sufficient apology for persecution , what might not the persecutors of that age have urged against Fox , who rarely spoke in public , but with some such preface ...
... heads than his afterwards gave speciousness to it ; but if blasphemy be a sufficient apology for persecution , what might not the persecutors of that age have urged against Fox , who rarely spoke in public , but with some such preface ...
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... head , and the blood run down his face . Nothing , however , could deter or intimidate him . On " the next first day , " he went into the steeple - house " at Titchhill , and " there found the priest , and the chief of the parish , in ...
... head , and the blood run down his face . Nothing , however , could deter or intimidate him . On " the next first day , " he went into the steeple - house " at Titchhill , and " there found the priest , and the chief of the parish , in ...
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... heads , so that the blood ran down several ; and Judge Fell's son , running after , to see what they would do with me , they threw him into a ditch of water ; some of them crying , ' knock the teeth out of his head . ' When they had ...
... heads , so that the blood ran down several ; and Judge Fell's son , running after , to see what they would do with me , they threw him into a ditch of water ; some of them crying , ' knock the teeth out of his head . ' When they had ...
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... heads , whom he cer- tainly disliked , but that he gives us to understand it was by command of the Lord . In the personal appearance of Fox there seems to have been something very solemn and imposing . His expressions , says Penn ...
... heads , whom he cer- tainly disliked , but that he gives us to understand it was by command of the Lord . In the personal appearance of Fox there seems to have been something very solemn and imposing . His expressions , says Penn ...
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