Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent Writers from the Time of Pericles to the Present DayJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1880 - 547 pages |
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... Light .... 397 67 428 190 Chinese , Condition of the ........... Christ , Ascension of ..... 340 70 American Literature Ancestry , Pride of ......... .................. .................... 410 362 Christ , Character and Influence of ...
... Light .... 397 67 428 190 Chinese , Condition of the ........... Christ , Ascension of ..... 340 70 American Literature Ancestry , Pride of ......... .................. .................... 410 362 Christ , Character and Influence of ...
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... light , indeed , upon their posterity ; but only serves to show what the descendants are . It alike exhibits to public view their degeneracy and their worth . I own I cannot boast of the deeds of my forefathers ; but I hope I may answer ...
... light , indeed , upon their posterity ; but only serves to show what the descendants are . It alike exhibits to public view their degeneracy and their worth . I own I cannot boast of the deeds of my forefathers ; but I hope I may answer ...
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... Light of light , the Book of life , hath established thee . There then all who ask receive , all who seek find thee , to those who knock thou openest quickly . In books Cherubim expand their wings , that the soul of the student may ...
... Light of light , the Book of life , hath established thee . There then all who ask receive , all who seek find thee , to those who knock thou openest quickly . In books Cherubim expand their wings , that the soul of the student may ...
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... lets us fall without any light or instruction in the same place where she took us up . Dear friend , I do not at- tempt to exhort you to the study I deem so important . Nature has given you a taste for all 18 FRANCESCO PETRARCH .
... lets us fall without any light or instruction in the same place where she took us up . Dear friend , I do not at- tempt to exhort you to the study I deem so important . Nature has given you a taste for all 18 FRANCESCO PETRARCH .
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... light . The senate awarded the prize of eloquence to Tiberius : he refused it , sup- posing that , though it had been just , he could derive no advantage from a judgment so par- tial , and that was so little free to judge . As we give ...
... light . The senate awarded the prize of eloquence to Tiberius : he refused it , sup- posing that , though it had been just , he could derive no advantage from a judgment so par- tial , and that was so little free to judge . As we give ...
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