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... hath much profited by reading controversies , his senses awakened , his judgment sharpened , and the truth . which he holds more firmly established . If then it be profit- able for him to read , why should it not at least be tolerable ...
... hath much profited by reading controversies , his senses awakened , his judgment sharpened , and the truth . which he holds more firmly established . If then it be profit- able for him to read , why should it not at least be tolerable ...
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... hath been . pleased thus to make us serviceable to him , comfortable to ourselves , and profitable to others ; and after all this , to take away the bitterness and sting of death , through Jesus Christ our Lord . - Sir M. Hale . DEATH ...
... hath been . pleased thus to make us serviceable to him , comfortable to ourselves , and profitable to others ; and after all this , to take away the bitterness and sting of death , through Jesus Christ our Lord . - Sir M. Hale . DEATH ...
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... hath no power . — Jay . DEATH , PREPARATION FOR.- -To neglect at any time prep- aration for death , is to sleep on our own post at a siege ; to omit it in old age , is to sleep at an attack . — Johnson . DEATH TEACHES TO LIVE . -If I ...
... hath no power . — Jay . DEATH , PREPARATION FOR.- -To neglect at any time prep- aration for death , is to sleep on our own post at a siege ; to omit it in old age , is to sleep at an attack . — Johnson . DEATH TEACHES TO LIVE . -If I ...
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... hath once imagined necessary to its happiness . - Charron . DESPAIR , ITS SOURCE . - Despair makes a despicable figure , and descends from a mean original . Tis the offspring of fear , of laziness , and impatience ; it argues a defect ...
... hath once imagined necessary to its happiness . - Charron . DESPAIR , ITS SOURCE . - Despair makes a despicable figure , and descends from a mean original . Tis the offspring of fear , of laziness , and impatience ; it argues a defect ...
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... hath , hath not him- self , which whosoever doth commit , doth not commit sin , but he himself is wholly sin.-St. Augustine . DRUNKENNESS . — Drunkenness is the vice of a good consti- tution , or of a bad memory of a constitution so ...
... hath , hath not him- self , which whosoever doth commit , doth not commit sin , but he himself is wholly sin.-St. Augustine . DRUNKENNESS . — Drunkenness is the vice of a good consti- tution , or of a bad memory of a constitution so ...
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