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... Hope . Charity . Death ; Faith . Hope . Charity . PARADISE LOST THE PERSONS Moses , πрoλoуie , * recounting how he assumed his true body ; that it corrupts not , because it is with God in the mount ; declares the like of Enoch and ...
... Hope . Charity . Death ; Faith . Hope . Charity . PARADISE LOST THE PERSONS Moses , πрoλoуie , * recounting how he assumed his true body ; that it corrupts not , because it is with God in the mount ; declares the like of Enoch and ...
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... hope of doing something . He wrote letters , which Toland has published , to such men as he thought friends to the new commonwealth ; and even in the year of the Restoration he bated no jot of heart or hope , but was fantastical enough ...
... hope of doing something . He wrote letters , which Toland has published , to such men as he thought friends to the new commonwealth ; and even in the year of the Restoration he bated no jot of heart or hope , but was fantastical enough ...
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... Hope , whose weak being ruin'd is , Alike if it succeed , and if it miss ; Whom good or ill does equally confound ... Hope is the most hopeless thing of all . Hope , thou bold taster of delight , Who , whilst thou should'st but taste ...
... Hope , whose weak being ruin'd is , Alike if it succeed , and if it miss ; Whom good or ill does equally confound ... Hope is the most hopeless thing of all . Hope , thou bold taster of delight , Who , whilst thou should'st but taste ...
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