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The Publications of the N. Eng. Tract Society, Volume 2

Tracts - 1820 - 310 pages
...the drops of rain or the dew of the morning, so do I also, who am but dust, imbibe the instructions of the Prophet. Believe then that it is he who tells thee, all knowledge is profane, which terminates in thyself; and by a life wasted in speculation, little even of this can...
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The British Essayists: Adventurer

English essays - 1823 - 324 pages
...drops of rain, or the dew of the •morning; so do I also, who am but dust, imbibe the instructions of the prophet. Believe then that it is he who tells thee all knowledge is pcofane which terminates in thyself; and by a life wasted in speculation, little even of this can be...
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 19-20

British essayists - 1823 - 686 pages
...the drops of rain, or the dew of the morning ; so do I also, who am but dust, imbibe the instructions of the prophet. Believe then that it is he who tells thee, all knowledge is profane which terminates in thyself; and by a life wasted in speculation, little even of this can be...
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The British Essayists: Adventurer

Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 650 pages
...the drops of rain, or the dew of the morning; so do I also, who am but dust, imbibe the instructions of the prophet. Believe then that it is he who tells thee, all knowledge is profane, which terminates in thyself; and by a life wasted in speculation, little even of this can...
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The Adventurer, Volume 1

English essays - 1823 - 304 pages
...the drops of rain, or the dew of the morning ; so do I also, who am but dust, imbibe the instructions of the prophet. Believe then that it is he who tells thee all knowledge is profane which terminates in thyself; and by a life wasted in speculation, little even of this can be...
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The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation

John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...the drops of rain, or the dew of the morning, so do I also, who am but dust, imbibe the instructions of the Prophet. "Believe, then, that it is he who tells thee, all knowledge is profane, which terminates in thyself; and by a life wasted in speculation, little even of this can...
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Elegant Extracts: Or Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose

Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...drops of " rain, or the dew of the morning, so do " I also, who am but dust, imbibe the " instructions methods I shall propose to them are as follow. The first profane, which termi' nates in thyself; and by a life wasted ' in speculation, little even of this...
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Sequel to the English Reader: Or, Elegant Selections in Prose and Poetry ...

Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...the drops of rain, or the dew of the morning, so do I also, who am but dust, imbibe the instructions of the Prophet. Believe then that it is he who tells thee, all knowledge is profane, which terminate* in thyself; and by a life wasted in speculation, little even of this can...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 25

Periodicals - 1844 - 288 pages
...the drops of rain, or the dew of the morning, so do I also, who am but dust, imbibe the instructions of the Prophet. "Believe, then, that it is he who tells thee, all knowledge is profane which terminates in thyself ; and by a life wasted in speculation, little even of this can...
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The National Fourth Reader: Containing a Course of Instruction in Elocution ...

Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1859 - 422 pages
...the drops of rain, or the dew of the morning, so do I also, who am but dust, imbibe the instructions of the Prophet . Believe then that it is he who tells thee, all knowledge is profane which terminates in thyself; and by a life wasted in speculation, little even of this can be...
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