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... continued almost till his beloved mother's death ; and never shall I forget the manner in which , when a great boy of nearly fifteen , he would sit upon her knee and repeat his hymn , while his arm was round her neck , and his head ...
... continued almost till his beloved mother's death ; and never shall I forget the manner in which , when a great boy of nearly fifteen , he would sit upon her knee and repeat his hymn , while his arm was round her neck , and his head ...
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... interment , by the side of her coffin ; and , hand in hand , knelt and wept , and prayed together , as we had been accustomed to do in other and happier circumstances . This prac- tice of retirement we three continued , at meeting and 30.
... interment , by the side of her coffin ; and , hand in hand , knelt and wept , and prayed together , as we had been accustomed to do in other and happier circumstances . This prac- tice of retirement we three continued , at meeting and 30.
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Thomas Durant. tice of retirement we three continued , at meeting and parting in May and October , when William left us to prosecute his studies at Glasgow , till the last solemn evening we ever spent together . That night - never to be ...
Thomas Durant. tice of retirement we three continued , at meeting and parting in May and October , when William left us to prosecute his studies at Glasgow , till the last solemn evening we ever spent together . That night - never to be ...
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... continued to love to his dying day , and who now mourns his loss , with a ten- derness of feeling scarcely inferior to my own -was so frequent an inmate of my family . She had her reward in the kindness of my son on earth - she will ...
... continued to love to his dying day , and who now mourns his loss , with a ten- derness of feeling scarcely inferior to my own -was so frequent an inmate of my family . She had her reward in the kindness of my son on earth - she will ...
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... continued to do till the end of his life . He parsed , of course , as he read , and thus applied his rules : but the practice of monthly repetition kept them ever ready for application . Before he went to College , at the age of a ...
... continued to do till the end of his life . He parsed , of course , as he read , and thus applied his rules : but the practice of monthly repetition kept them ever ready for application . Before he went to College , at the age of a ...
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