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... allowed some additional books , or some less disgusting food . But you do not comprehend , " said he . No , Sir ; be so kind as to explain the nature of the favour granted . " " It is liberty for you both , and for a third , whom you ...
... allowed some additional books , or some less disgusting food . But you do not comprehend , " said he . No , Sir ; be so kind as to explain the nature of the favour granted . " " It is liberty for you both , and for a third , whom you ...
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... allowed to go wherever they pleased , and were consequently disappointed and angry when they found themselves still under control . It was impossible to gather from their looks whether any of them were keenly alive to the miseries of ...
... allowed to go wherever they pleased , and were consequently disappointed and angry when they found themselves still under control . It was impossible to gather from their looks whether any of them were keenly alive to the miseries of ...
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... allowed to take up his residence in a porch of the outer square of the temple , he there , by conciliating the heads of the village , made himself quite at home . They became familiar with him ; and were very curious to know where his ...
... allowed to take up his residence in a porch of the outer square of the temple , he there , by conciliating the heads of the village , made himself quite at home . They became familiar with him ; and were very curious to know where his ...
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... allowed the cultivators of the poppy to send in a quality of a very inferior character . The Chinese merchants became indignant , and remonstrated . What was the result ? The East India Company actually paid down a douceur of something ...
... allowed the cultivators of the poppy to send in a quality of a very inferior character . The Chinese merchants became indignant , and remonstrated . What was the result ? The East India Company actually paid down a douceur of something ...
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... allowed , as graduate , to the library of our College , I had also , through another channel , all the best editions of those holy writers placed at my command . Of the Scriptures my knowledge had hitherto been scanty : but the plan I ...
... allowed , as graduate , to the library of our College , I had also , through another channel , all the best editions of those holy writers placed at my command . Of the Scriptures my knowledge had hitherto been scanty : but the plan I ...
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Page 69 - Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth ; keep the door of my lips.
Page 96 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Page 91 - Thro' the azure deep of air : Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the Muse's ray, With orient hues, unborrow'd of the sun : Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the Good how far — but far above the Great.
Page 378 - On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation ; illustrating such work by all reasonable arguments — as for instance the variety and formation of God's creatures in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms ; the effect of digestion, and thereby...
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Page 355 - ... his reason to disentangle him. This was his anxious care, to go out or in at a door' or passage, by a certain number of steps from a certain point, or at least so as that either his right or his left foot, (I am not certain which,) should constantly make the first actual movement when he came close to the door or passage. Thus I conjecture : for I have, upon innumerable occasions, observed him suddenly stop, and then seem to count his steps with...
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