A Thousand and One Gems of English ProseG. Routledge, 1872 - 534 pages |
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... earth with men upon it ( the divineness of souls excepted ) will not seem more than an ant - hill , where some ants carry corn , and some carry their young , and some go empty , and all to and fro a little heap of dust . It taketh away ...
... earth with men upon it ( the divineness of souls excepted ) will not seem more than an ant - hill , where some ants carry corn , and some carry their young , and some go empty , and all to and fro a little heap of dust . It taketh away ...
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... earth , the expert husbandman to the schoolmaster , the faculties and sciences to the pure seeds . If this order had not been in our predecessors , Pytha- goras , Socrates , Plato , and whosoever was renowned in Greece for the glory of ...
... earth , the expert husbandman to the schoolmaster , the faculties and sciences to the pure seeds . If this order had not been in our predecessors , Pytha- goras , Socrates , Plato , and whosoever was renowned in Greece for the glory of ...
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... earth , nor as this flesh shall rest in the grave , nor such a rest as the carnal world de- sires . O blessed rest ! when we rest not day and night saying , " Holy , holy , holy , Lord God Almighty : " when we shall rest from sin , but ...
... earth , nor as this flesh shall rest in the grave , nor such a rest as the carnal world de- sires . O blessed rest ! when we rest not day and night saying , " Holy , holy , holy , Lord God Almighty : " when we shall rest from sin , but ...
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... earth , why should I think that blessed spirits are such local , confined , and impotent substances , as not to have notice of the things of earth ? Had I but bodily eyes , I could see more from the top of a tower or hill than any one ...
... earth , why should I think that blessed spirits are such local , confined , and impotent substances , as not to have notice of the things of earth ? Had I but bodily eyes , I could see more from the top of a tower or hill than any one ...
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... earth , amongst the numberless number of men , to die were only proper to thee and thine , then , undoubtedly , thou hadst reason to repine at so severe and partial a law : but since it is a necessity , from which never any age by ...
... earth , amongst the numberless number of men , to die were only proper to thee and thine , then , undoubtedly , thou hadst reason to repine at so severe and partial a law : but since it is a necessity , from which never any age by ...
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