Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... holy , after Paradise , to wear out the impressions having washed myself , and offered of the last agonies , and qualify them up my morning devotions , I ascend- for the pleasures of that happy place . ed the high hills of Bagdat , in ...
... holy , after Paradise , to wear out the impressions having washed myself , and offered of the last agonies , and qualify them up my morning devotions , I ascend- for the pleasures of that happy place . ed the high hills of Bagdat , in ...
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... saints and holy in my opinion , can reasonably de- men among Christians . There are but two things , which , prive us of this cheerfulness of heart . The first of these is the sense of tive of 30 [ BOOK I. ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
... saints and holy in my opinion , can reasonably de- men among Christians . There are but two things , which , prive us of this cheerfulness of heart . The first of these is the sense of tive of 30 [ BOOK I. ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
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... holy religion ty , or of extensive utility ; these may seeks to form us . This was the temper of Christ . per of Heaven . This is 02 [ BOOK I. ELEGANT EXTRACTS . Guardian 28 Spectator 30 Numerous Occasions offer for the Exer- tion of a ...
... holy religion ty , or of extensive utility ; these may seeks to form us . This was the temper of Christ . per of Heaven . This is 02 [ BOOK I. ELEGANT EXTRACTS . Guardian 28 Spectator 30 Numerous Occasions offer for the Exer- tion of a ...
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... Holy Writ itself . Gregory . of their influence . This produces that cruel and implacable spirit , which has so often disgraced the $ 62 . Religion considered as a Rule cause of religion , and dishonoured humanity . of Life and Manners ...
... Holy Writ itself . Gregory . of their influence . This produces that cruel and implacable spirit , which has so often disgraced the $ 62 . Religion considered as a Rule cause of religion , and dishonoured humanity . of Life and Manners ...
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... holy those that are delivered down to us city . The blessings which he petition- by the ancient Greeks and Romans , ed of the prophet , as the prophet's in the poetry as much as in the sub- vicegerent , he was diligent to dis- ject to ...
... holy those that are delivered down to us city . The blessings which he petition- by the ancient Greeks and Romans , ed of the prophet , as the prophet's in the poetry as much as in the sub- vicegerent , he was diligent to dis- ject to ...
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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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