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... reason to be given why you have not dropped into Hell since you arose in the morning , but that God's hand has held you up . There is no other reason to be given why you han't gone to Hell since you have sat here in the house of God ...
... reason to be given why you have not dropped into Hell since you arose in the morning , but that God's hand has held you up . There is no other reason to be given why you han't gone to Hell since you have sat here in the house of God ...
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... Reason In the intellectual life of the eighteenth century , Reason ruled . The Frenchman Voltaire , the Englishmen Pope and Jona- than Swift and Dr. Johnson , the American Franklin were reflecting a new way of thinking and writing about ...
... Reason In the intellectual life of the eighteenth century , Reason ruled . The Frenchman Voltaire , the Englishmen Pope and Jona- than Swift and Dr. Johnson , the American Franklin were reflecting a new way of thinking and writing about ...
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... reason were the glory of creation . Tom Paine , you remember ( page 165 ) , talks a lot about reason , and even so emotional a warrior as Colonel Ethan Allen , fighting leader of the Green Mountain Boys who took Fort Ticonderoga from ...
... reason were the glory of creation . Tom Paine , you remember ( page 165 ) , talks a lot about reason , and even so emotional a warrior as Colonel Ethan Allen , fighting leader of the Green Mountain Boys who took Fort Ticonderoga from ...
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APPROACHING AMERICAN | 1 |
Carl Sandburg Chicago | 34 |
William Saroyan The Oyster and the Pearl | 60 |
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