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... , he never meditated opposition to our will , nor said or did a thing of which he feared we might seriously disapprove . In the merest trifles , no less really than in the most momen- F tous engagements of his life , he was ever studious ...
... , he never meditated opposition to our will , nor said or did a thing of which he feared we might seriously disapprove . In the merest trifles , no less really than in the most momen- F tous engagements of his life , he was ever studious ...
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... less dear to each of us than his mother had been , made up our trio , after the melan- choly day that took from us " the desire of our eyes with a stroke . " When it pleased God to remove her , in 1818 , we daily met , till her ...
... less dear to each of us than his mother had been , made up our trio , after the melan- choly day that took from us " the desire of our eyes with a stroke . " When it pleased God to remove her , in 1818 , we daily met , till her ...
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... less , through the whole memoir - in order that I might pursue in a more unembarrassed manner , his intellectual progress . It may easily be imagined , that parents not altogether unac- quainted with literature themselves ; feeling its ...
... less , through the whole memoir - in order that I might pursue in a more unembarrassed manner , his intellectual progress . It may easily be imagined , that parents not altogether unac- quainted with literature themselves ; feeling its ...
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... less , with the heavy condemnation at last of having mispent my opportunities of good . Again , therefore , I say , let the claims of duty , of prudence and of filial affection be fully sa- tisfied first of all . After this , if any ...
... less , with the heavy condemnation at last of having mispent my opportunities of good . Again , therefore , I say , let the claims of duty , of prudence and of filial affection be fully sa- tisfied first of all . After this , if any ...
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... less the attributes , of God , may be proud of the little knowledge he has acquired , and may , per- haps , have placed his error on the throne he had prepared for truth . He may feast his imagination on the admiration of posterity ; he ...
... less the attributes , of God , may be proud of the little knowledge he has acquired , and may , per- haps , have placed his error on the throne he had prepared for truth . He may feast his imagination on the admiration of posterity ; he ...
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