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... true , is better than its appearance : there is probably more genuine goodwill , more true religion , and more sound and disinterested thought to - day than there ever were . Yet , amid the surface babel and vulgarity of a transitional ...
... true , is better than its appearance : there is probably more genuine goodwill , more true religion , and more sound and disinterested thought to - day than there ever were . Yet , amid the surface babel and vulgarity of a transitional ...
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... true father should be . Had his own father passed the test - an exacting one for the eighteenth century , but rather less so for our day — he would certainly have stated , and lovingly embroidered , the fact . He lost no opportunity of ...
... true father should be . Had his own father passed the test - an exacting one for the eighteenth century , but rather less so for our day — he would certainly have stated , and lovingly embroidered , the fact . He lost no opportunity of ...
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... true that a large measure of solid conviction underlies his assertion that " God made the country , and man made the town . " But he is not actually so foolish as to imagine that the town is either dispensable or completely abandoned to ...
... true that a large measure of solid conviction underlies his assertion that " God made the country , and man made the town . " But he is not actually so foolish as to imagine that the town is either dispensable or completely abandoned to ...
Contents
FOREWORD II | 11 |
AN EXTRAMUNDANE AND HIS WORLD | 34 |
THE EVANGELICAL REVIVAL | 158 |
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