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An Ancient Watering Place — Tradition Concerning it — Modern Watering Places
— A Picture — The First Temptation— Sacred Parade — Crack Sermons —
Quartette — Air Bewitched — Horse Racing — Deceptive Titles — Saratoga—
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An Ancient Watering Place — Tradition Concerning it — Modern Watering Places
— A Picture — The First Temptation— Sacred Parade — Crack Sermons —
Quartette — Air Bewitched — Horse Racing — Deceptive Titles — Saratoga—
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for natural sleep ; the pressure of daily publication whatever breaks down ; the
temptation to intoxicating stimulants in order to keep the nervous energy up, a
temptation which only the strongest can resist — all these make newspaper life ...
for natural sleep ; the pressure of daily publication whatever breaks down ; the
temptation to intoxicating stimulants in order to keep the nervous energy up, a
temptation which only the strongest can resist — all these make newspaper life ...
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First, avoid putting people in your employ amid too great temptation. You can
take a young man in your employ and put him in a position where nine hundred
and ninety-nine chances out of a thousand are that he will do wrong. Now, I say.
you ...
First, avoid putting people in your employ amid too great temptation. You can
take a young man in your employ and put him in a position where nine hundred
and ninety-nine chances out of a thousand are that he will do wrong. Now, I say.
you ...
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The first temptation that is apt to hover in this direction, is to leave y<>ur jriety all
at home. You will send the dog, and cat, and canary-bird to be well cared for
somewhere else; but the temptation will be to leave your religion in the room with
the ...
The first temptation that is apt to hover in this direction, is to leave y<>ur jriety all
at home. You will send the dog, and cat, and canary-bird to be well cared for
somewhere else; but the temptation will be to leave your religion in the room with
the ...
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Infinite temptations spring upon us from these places of public concourse. Amid
so much affluence how much temptation to covetousness, and to be '
discontented with our humble lot. Amid so many opportunities for over-reaching,
what ...
Infinite temptations spring upon us from these places of public concourse. Amid
so much affluence how much temptation to covetousness, and to be '
discontented with our humble lot. Amid so many opportunities for over-reaching,
what ...
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| Title | night scenes of city life |
| Author | t. dewitt talmage d.d |
| Published | 1801 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 23 Nov 2005 |
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