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If thou wilt work , I have bread for thee ; if thou wilt be honest , sober , and industrious , I have greater rewards to confer on thee - ease and independence . I will give thee fields to feed and cloath thee ; a comfortable fire ...
If thou wilt work , I have bread for thee ; if thou wilt be honest , sober , and industrious , I have greater rewards to confer on thee - ease and independence . I will give thee fields to feed and cloath thee ; a comfortable fire ...
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20 25 30 35 Father , thy hand Hath reared these venerable columns , thou Didst weave this verdant roof . Thou didst look down Upon the naked earth , and , forthwith , rose All these fair ranks of trees .
20 25 30 35 Father , thy hand Hath reared these venerable columns , thou Didst weave this verdant roof . Thou didst look down Upon the naked earth , and , forthwith , rose All these fair ranks of trees .
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God wills also that thou abdicate a manifold and duplex life , and that thou be content that others speak for thee . Others shall be thy gentlemen and shall represent all courtesy and worldly life for thee ; others shall do the great ...
God wills also that thou abdicate a manifold and duplex life , and that thou be content that others speak for thee . Others shall be thy gentlemen and shall represent all courtesy and worldly life for thee ; others shall do the great ...
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Four Early Travelers and Observers | 1 |
George Alsop 1638post 1666 | 27 |
Of the Situation and plenty | 34 |
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