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... say , for example , " The sun is rising ; " or , ascending to a higher plane of thought and emotion , we may present the same fact in the language of Thomson : -- " But yonder comes the powerful King of Day , Rejoicing in the east . The ...
... say , for example , " The sun is rising ; " or , ascending to a higher plane of thought and emotion , we may present the same fact in the language of Thomson : -- " But yonder comes the powerful King of Day , Rejoicing in the east . The ...
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... says : " Beef , brawn , and pork are now in great'st request , And solid'st meats our stomachs can digest . " But she loved nature ; and in her descriptions of flowers , and birds , and streams , she often reaches the plane of genuine ...
... says : " Beef , brawn , and pork are now in great'st request , And solid'st meats our stomachs can digest . " But she loved nature ; and in her descriptions of flowers , and birds , and streams , she often reaches the plane of genuine ...
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... says that it " perhaps gave me a turn of thinking , that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life . " Cot- ton Mather sought to check the vice of drunkenness , and was perhaps our first temperance reformer ...
... says that it " perhaps gave me a turn of thinking , that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life . " Cot- ton Mather sought to check the vice of drunkenness , and was perhaps our first temperance reformer ...
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... say , that " it was presumptuous in man to inflict disease on man , that being the prerogative of the Most High . " The matter was discussed with great bitterness of feeling ; and the mass of people , as well as the civil authorities ...
... say , that " it was presumptuous in man to inflict disease on man , that being the prerogative of the Most High . " The matter was discussed with great bitterness of feeling ; and the mass of people , as well as the civil authorities ...
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... say , to the magnificent empire lying between the Allegheny and the Rocky Mountains . " If the French , " wrote the governor of New York in 1687 , “ have all that they pretend to have dis- covered in these parts , the king of England ...
... say , to the magnificent empire lying between the Allegheny and the Rocky Mountains . " If the French , " wrote the governor of New York in 1687 , “ have all that they pretend to have dis- covered in these parts , the king of England ...
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