The Service of the Poor: Being an Inquiry Into the Reasons for and Against the Establishment of Religious Sisterhoods for Charitable PurposesMacmillan & Company, 1871 - 342 pages |
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... give on the best authority a statement of facts , in considerable detail but without comment , merely in order to supply information , and reserving all expression of opinion for the second part of INTRODUCTION . 5 .
... give on the best authority a statement of facts , in considerable detail but without comment , merely in order to supply information , and reserving all expression of opinion for the second part of INTRODUCTION . 5 .
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... give us " what may be called a picture of the Church of the first three centuries- a picture distorted , doubtless , and in many places retouched -but still a picture which is a moderately good likeness on the whole . " The result of Mr ...
... give us " what may be called a picture of the Church of the first three centuries- a picture distorted , doubtless , and in many places retouched -but still a picture which is a moderately good likeness on the whole . " The result of Mr ...
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... give a short abstract of the facts which they have collected from various sources respecting these women , of whom Mr. Ludlow's work gives the fullest account I have seen . How scanty those sources of information are appears from the ...
... give a short abstract of the facts which they have collected from various sources respecting these women , of whom Mr. Ludlow's work gives the fullest account I have seen . How scanty those sources of information are appears from the ...
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... give us " what may be called a picture of the Church of the first three centuries- a picture distorted , doubtless , and in many places retouched -but still a picture which is a moderately good likeness on the whole . " The result of Mr ...
... give us " what may be called a picture of the Church of the first three centuries- a picture distorted , doubtless , and in many places retouched -but still a picture which is a moderately good likeness on the whole . " The result of Mr ...
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... properly so called , that " they are either widows or virgins who , from desire of gaining eternal salvation , have said good - bye to the pleasures of c life and fashions of the world , and give up CHAP . II . ] 17 THE BÉGUINES .
... properly so called , that " they are either widows or virgins who , from desire of gaining eternal salvation , have said good - bye to the pleasures of c life and fashions of the world , and give up CHAP . II . ] 17 THE BÉGUINES .
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