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... lived five years , in which time he is said to have read all the Greek and Latin writers . With what limitations this universality is to be understood , who shall inform us ? It might be supposed that he who read so much should have ...
... lived five years , in which time he is said to have read all the Greek and Latin writers . With what limitations this universality is to be understood , who shall inform us ? It might be supposed that he who read so much should have ...
Page 84
... lived in a confirmed belief of the immediate and occasional agency of Providence , yet grew old without any visible worship . In the distribution of his hours there was no hour of prayer , either solitary or with his household ...
... lived in a confirmed belief of the immediate and occasional agency of Providence , yet grew old without any visible worship . In the distribution of his hours there was no hour of prayer , either solitary or with his household ...
Page 447
... lived to see her son rising into eminence . The design of Thomson's friends was to breed him a minister . He lived at Edinburgh , as at school , without distinction or expectation , till , at the usual time , he 447 JAMES THOMSON.
... lived to see her son rising into eminence . The design of Thomson's friends was to breed him a minister . He lived at Edinburgh , as at school , without distinction or expectation , till , at the usual time , he 447 JAMES THOMSON.
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