Leisure Hours in TownTicknor and Fields, 1863 - 437 pages |
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... a drawer in this table on which I write . I have seen , I believe , every sick person in the congregation on some day during this week . As for the parish , that is by far too large and populous to be personally overtaken by any.
... a drawer in this table on which I write . I have seen , I believe , every sick person in the congregation on some day during this week . As for the parish , that is by far too large and populous to be personally overtaken by any.
Page 10
... believe , that almost all the clergymen I know do day by day their very utmost to overtake that overwhelm- ing duty . And now and then , there comes a special sense of the clergyman's weighty responsibility , and of the momentous ...
... believe , that almost all the clergymen I know do day by day their very utmost to overtake that overwhelm- ing duty . And now and then , there comes a special sense of the clergyman's weighty responsibility , and of the momentous ...
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... believe that my subject is not that material Veal which may be beheld and purchased in the butcher's shops . I am not now to treat of its varied qualities , of the suste- nance which it yields , of the price at which it may be procured ...
... believe that my subject is not that material Veal which may be beheld and purchased in the butcher's shops . I am not now to treat of its varied qualities , of the suste- nance which it yields , of the price at which it may be procured ...
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... believe that thought can justly be called mature only when it has become such as to suit the taste of some desperately dry old gentleman with as much feeling as a log of wood , and as much imagination as an oyster . I know how ...
... believe that thought can justly be called mature only when it has become such as to suit the taste of some desperately dry old gentleman with as much feeling as a log of wood , and as much imagination as an oyster . I know how ...
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... believe that there . was a moderate proportion of truth in the excuse thus urged ; and you will probably judge that it would have been better had the great man's mind not been brought to so painful a polish . The mention of dried - up ...
... believe that there . was a moderate proportion of truth in the excuse thus urged ; and you will probably judge that it would have been better had the great man's mind not been brought to so painful a polish . The mention of dried - up ...
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