A Thousand and One Gems of English ProseG. Routledge, 1872 - 534 pages |
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... heaven , than I do now ? It is unlike that my capacity will be so little and if it were , it is unlike that Christ and all the angels will be so strange to me , as to give me no notice of things that so much concern my God and my ...
... heaven , than I do now ? It is unlike that my capacity will be so little and if it were , it is unlike that Christ and all the angels will be so strange to me , as to give me no notice of things that so much concern my God and my ...
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... heaven and hell together.- Narrative of the most Memorable Passages of his Life and Times . wwwwww THE WORLD'S APPLAUSE . I AM much less regardful of the appro- bation of man , and set much lighter by contempt or applause , than I did ...
... heaven and hell together.- Narrative of the most Memorable Passages of his Life and Times . wwwwww THE WORLD'S APPLAUSE . I AM much less regardful of the appro- bation of man , and set much lighter by contempt or applause , than I did ...
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... heavens stay their ever - rolling wheels ( for what is the motion of them but the motion of a swift and ever whirling wheel , which twineth forth , and again up- rolleth our life ) , and hold still time to pro- long thy miserable days ...
... heavens stay their ever - rolling wheels ( for what is the motion of them but the motion of a swift and ever whirling wheel , which twineth forth , and again up- rolleth our life ) , and hold still time to pro- long thy miserable days ...
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... Heaven and earth are much alike ; those other's site in the heavens , in their terms , houses , case , detriments , & c .; so 16 A THOUSAND AND ONE GEMS.
... Heaven and earth are much alike ; those other's site in the heavens , in their terms , houses , case , detriments , & c .; so 16 A THOUSAND AND ONE GEMS.
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... heaven . The various cosmography of that part hath already varied the names of contrived constella- tions ; Nimrod is lost in Orion , and Osiris in the dog - star . While we look for incor- ruption in the heavens , we find they are but ...
... heaven . The various cosmography of that part hath already varied the names of contrived constella- tions ; Nimrod is lost in Orion , and Osiris in the dog - star . While we look for incor- ruption in the heavens , we find they are but ...
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