World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1866 - 432 pages |
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... faith is the best divinity ; a good life the best philosophy ; a clear conscience , the best law ; honesty , the best policy ; and temperance , the best physic . BIBLE . It is the light of my understanding , the joy of my heart , the ...
... faith is the best divinity ; a good life the best philosophy ; a clear conscience , the best law ; honesty , the best policy ; and temperance , the best physic . BIBLE . It is the light of my understanding , the joy of my heart , the ...
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... Faith , it springs from earth to heaven : the arch symbol- izes Mercy , it descends from heaven to earth . COMMENDATION . - Whenever you commend , add your rea- sons for doing so it is this which distinguishes the approba- tion of a man ...
... Faith , it springs from earth to heaven : the arch symbol- izes Mercy , it descends from heaven to earth . COMMENDATION . - Whenever you commend , add your rea- sons for doing so it is this which distinguishes the approba- tion of a man ...
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... of a society , as faith or credit ; which can never be kept up , unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe 3 * THE WORLD'S LACONICS 57 were made altogether for him, and not he for ...
... of a society , as faith or credit ; which can never be kept up , unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe 3 * THE WORLD'S LACONICS 57 were made altogether for him, and not he for ...
Page 62
... house , into another that is fair and large , lightsome and glorious , and divinely entertaining - Clarke . DEATH , TO WHOM NOT TERRIBLE.- -It is nó small reproach to a Christian , whose faith is in immortality and 62 THE WORLD'S LACONICS .
... house , into another that is fair and large , lightsome and glorious , and divinely entertaining - Clarke . DEATH , TO WHOM NOT TERRIBLE.- -It is nó small reproach to a Christian , whose faith is in immortality and 62 THE WORLD'S LACONICS .
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... faith is in immortality and the blessed- ness of another life , much to fear death which is the neces sary passage thereto . - Sir H. Vane . DEATH , WHEN NEAR.— . -A good man , when dying , once said , Formerly death appeared to me like ...
... faith is in immortality and the blessed- ness of another life , much to fear death which is the neces sary passage thereto . - Sir H. Vane . DEATH , WHEN NEAR.— . -A good man , when dying , once said , Formerly death appeared to me like ...
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