Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... duties of a parish priest for nearly forty years , with great regularity . After his retire- ment , while he lived in ... duty to protest against an address which that bishop proposed for the adoption of the clergy , at a visitation of ...
... duties of a parish priest for nearly forty years , with great regularity . After his retire- ment , while he lived in ... duty to protest against an address which that bishop proposed for the adoption of the clergy , at a visitation of ...
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... Duty of Children to their Parents 9 Strength of Parental Affection 10 Remarks on the Swiftness of Time 11 Folly of ... Duties The Desire of Praise subservient to many valuable Purposes Ibid . 63 1 Ibid . 63 Ibid . 64 Gregory . 64 Ibid ...
... Duty of Children to their Parents 9 Strength of Parental Affection 10 Remarks on the Swiftness of Time 11 Folly of ... Duties The Desire of Praise subservient to many valuable Purposes Ibid . 63 1 Ibid . 63 Ibid . 64 Gregory . 64 Ibid ...
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... duty , and some more easy shall find danger and difficulty give means of obtaining the same end . way before him . Go now , my son , We then relax our vigour , and re- to thy repose ; commit thyself to the solve no longer to be ...
... duty , and some more easy shall find danger and difficulty give means of obtaining the same end . way before him . Go now , my son , We then relax our vigour , and re- to thy repose ; commit thyself to the solve no longer to be ...
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... Duty of Children to their no more seen . How many thousand things do I remember , which would I am the happy father of a very have highly pleased my father , and 1 towardly son , in whom I do not only omitted for no other reason but ...
... Duty of Children to their no more seen . How many thousand things do I remember , which would I am the happy father of a very have highly pleased my father , and 1 towardly son , in whom I do not only omitted for no other reason but ...
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... other business is vain and trivial , as not possible to all , therefore , it can- the toil of emmets in the path of the not be a duty . Depart to the house which has in this city been prepared | " Under 38 [ BOOK I. ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
... other business is vain and trivial , as not possible to all , therefore , it can- the toil of emmets in the path of the not be a duty . Depart to the house which has in this city been prepared | " Under 38 [ BOOK I. ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
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Elegant Extracts, Or Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry (Classic Reprint) Vicesimus Knox No preview available - 2018 |
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