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... Mother His first Session at Glasgow 124 126 127 134 142 159 Extracts from his Letters written during that Session 165 A Poem , " The Land of the Blessed . " ..... 180 Professor Walker's Testimony to his character and success at College ...
... Mother His first Session at Glasgow 124 126 127 134 142 159 Extracts from his Letters written during that Session 165 A Poem , " The Land of the Blessed . " ..... 180 Professor Walker's Testimony to his character and success at College ...
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... mother and myself jointly make these the special subjects of our petitions . Nor had we , in after life , neither have I to this mo- ment , reason to doubt , that He , " who heareth prayer , " approved and answered ours . Few can be ...
... mother and myself jointly make these the special subjects of our petitions . Nor had we , in after life , neither have I to this mo- ment , reason to doubt , that He , " who heareth prayer , " approved and answered ours . Few can be ...
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... mother ; who pos- sessed , in a high degree , almost every mental and moral excellency for which her son was afterwards so distinguished . I knew , from the experience of three years , that she was deficient in no single qualification ...
... mother ; who pos- sessed , in a high degree , almost every mental and moral excellency for which her son was afterwards so distinguished . I knew , from the experience of three years , that she was deficient in no single qualification ...
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... mother nor myself ever en- dured , on this ground , a moment's anxiety . She , in adverting to it , has often said , " The probability is , that he will survive us both ; and why should we torment ourselves with the voluntary ...
... mother nor myself ever en- dured , on this ground , a moment's anxiety . She , in adverting to it , has often said , " The probability is , that he will survive us both ; and why should we torment ourselves with the voluntary ...
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... mother was uniformly silent before him , and shewed me , when alone , the extravagance of my re- quisitions — thus affording me an opportunity of averting or correcting any evil that might have been threatened or produced - without ...
... mother was uniformly silent before him , and shewed me , when alone , the extravagance of my re- quisitions — thus affording me an opportunity of averting or correcting any evil that might have been threatened or produced - without ...
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