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... known and honored , and whose writings they had so much enjoyed . The first series of Letters has had a large circulation , and there is abundant evidence that it has been a useful and in- teresting book . It is with the hope that this ...
... known and honored , and whose writings they had so much enjoyed . The first series of Letters has had a large circulation , and there is abundant evidence that it has been a useful and in- teresting book . It is with the hope that this ...
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... known as " The Old White Meeting - house . " When not yet fourteen years old he entered Williams Col- lege , and was graduated in 1829 before he was seventeen . He studied theology in the Seminary at Princeton , and was licensed to ...
... known as " The Old White Meeting - house . " When not yet fourteen years old he entered Williams Col- lege , and was graduated in 1829 before he was seventeen . He studied theology in the Seminary at Princeton , and was licensed to ...
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... known and more beloved , or had more personal friends attached to him by tender ties and memo- ries of delightful intercourse , or was exerting a wider influ- ence for good in so many lands . The remains of Dr. Prime were brought to ...
... known and more beloved , or had more personal friends attached to him by tender ties and memo- ries of delightful intercourse , or was exerting a wider influ- ence for good in so many lands . The remains of Dr. Prime were brought to ...
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... known only through his facile and graceful pen . But if you knew him in that way only you did not really know him . If you have not seen him with his children and grandchildren about him ; if you have not seen him in the freedom of ...
... known only through his facile and graceful pen . But if you knew him in that way only you did not really know him . If you have not seen him with his children and grandchildren about him ; if you have not seen him in the freedom of ...
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... known him . With him how easy and quick was the transition from smiles to tears ! In the best sense , only the earnest can be mirthful ; only the strong can be tender . We must not think to - day only of our loss ; we must look at the ...
... known him . With him how easy and quick was the transition from smiles to tears ! In the best sense , only the earnest can be mirthful ; only the strong can be tender . We must not think to - day only of our loss ; we must look at the ...
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Page 193 - As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
Page 214 - O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!
Page 145 - But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
Page 82 - And with them the Being Beauteous Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Page 27 - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth; But higher far my proud pretensions rise, — The son of parents passed into the skies!
Page 214 - Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
Page 305 - O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end...
Page 84 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
Page 185 - Thou dost conduct thy people Through torrents of temptation : Nor will we fear, While thou art near, The fire of tribulation : The world, with sin and Satan, In vain our march opposes ; By thee we shall Break through them all, And sing the song of Moses.
Page 66 - I am just going. Have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the vault in less than three days after I am dead.