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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 : — 66 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 ...
... says : — 66 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 ...
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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 . " Cotton 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 . " Cotton Mather sought to check the vice of drunkenness , and was perhaps our first temperance reformer ...
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... , and discussed by the little company that called in as usual . " They read it , " he says , " commented on it in my hearing , and I had the exquisite pleasure of finding it met with their approbation , and 48 AMERICAN LITERATURE .
... , and discussed by the little company that called in as usual . " They read it , " he says , " commented on it in my hearing , and I had the exquisite pleasure of finding it met with their approbation , and 48 AMERICAN LITERATURE .
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... says , " which I at first put on with some violence to natural inclination , became at length easy , and so habitual to me , that perhaps for the last fifty years no one has ever heard a dogmatical expression escape me . And to this ...
... says , " which I at first put on with some violence to natural inclination , became at length easy , and so habitual to me , that perhaps for the last fifty years no one has ever heard a dogmatical expression escape me . And to this ...
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