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we could speak with equal commendation of the style and com- position ; but our duty to the public will not permit us to immo- late the fidelity of criticism on the altar of candour . In the pre- sent instance also , we are the more ...
we could speak with equal commendation of the style and com- position ; but our duty to the public will not permit us to immo- late the fidelity of criticism on the altar of candour . In the pre- sent instance also , we are the more ...
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... equal power , nor equal perspicuity ; and if proposed by divines , they are seldom received without hesitation , accompanied perhaps by suspicion . But if they , who have assumed the name of freethinkers , be really really open to ...
... equal power , nor equal perspicuity ; and if proposed by divines , they are seldom received without hesitation , accompanied perhaps by suspicion . But if they , who have assumed the name of freethinkers , be really really open to ...
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... equal to the danger of being overtaken by those thick and fleecy clouds which frequently envelope the mountain . ” The inhabitants of the Cape , from long observation , are well acquainted with all the symptoms of the approaching ...
... equal to the danger of being overtaken by those thick and fleecy clouds which frequently envelope the mountain . ” The inhabitants of the Cape , from long observation , are well acquainted with all the symptoms of the approaching ...
الصفحة 110
... equal , were not the severest part of his sufferings . It will scarcely be credited , that a scholar of the first celebrity , a clergyman , and a gentleman , was refused the privileges usually allowed to the most abject and nefarious ...
... equal , were not the severest part of his sufferings . It will scarcely be credited , that a scholar of the first celebrity , a clergyman , and a gentleman , was refused the privileges usually allowed to the most abject and nefarious ...
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... equal to the clear annual income of all I am worth . ' An act of generosity , ' subjoin Mr. Wakefield's biographers , which , in similar circumstances , we may venture to affirm , is almost , if not entirely , without example . ' Among ...
... equal to the clear annual income of all I am worth . ' An act of generosity , ' subjoin Mr. Wakefield's biographers , which , in similar circumstances , we may venture to affirm , is almost , if not entirely , without example . ' Among ...
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الصفحة 186 - But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
الصفحة 432 - I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare, with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
الصفحة 124 - Half a dozen of them, when met to work with their needles, used, when they got a book they liked, and thought I should, to borrow me to read to them ; their mothers sometimes with them ; and both mothers and daughters used to be pleased with the observations they put me upon making.
الصفحة 432 - Mr. President, — Though I am truly sensible of the high honor done me in this appointment, yet I feel great distress, from a consciousness that my abilities and military experience may not be equal to the extensive and important trust. However, as the Congress desire it, I will enter upon the momentous duty, and exert every power I possess in their service, and for the support of the glorious cause. I beg they will accept my most cordial thanks for this distinguished testimony of their approbation.
الصفحة 75 - For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but, as it is. in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
الصفحة 275 - My religious and moral principles are strongly opposed to the practice of duelling, and it would ever give me pain to be obliged to shed the blood of a fellow-creature in a private combat forbidden by the laws.
الصفحة 181 - I told you fingers would not do ;' and producing two pieces of lead from his waistcoat pocket, ' One of these,' said he, " I placed on the lowest key of the organ, and the other upon the octave above : thus, by accommodating the harmony, I produced the effect of four hands instead of two.
الصفحة 351 - On the morning of that day, his attendants, alarmed at the evident symptoms of approaching dissolution, came precipitately to call the friend who has now the melancholy task of recording the mournful event : not a moment was lost in repairing to his house. He was lying on...
الصفحة 429 - Dinwiddie, giving an account of the action, he says, " they were struck with such an inconceivable panic, that nothing but confusion and disobedience of orders prevailed among them. The officers in general behaved with incomparable bravery, for which they greatly suffered, there being upwards of sixty killed and wounded, a large proportion out of what we had.
الصفحة 29 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella.