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... seemed to me , sweetly to represent the loveliness and beauty of Jesus Christ . The whole book of Canticles used to be pleasant to me , and I used to be much in reading it , about that time ; and found , from time to time , an inward ...
... seemed to me , sweetly to represent the loveliness and beauty of Jesus Christ . The whole book of Canticles used to be pleasant to me , and I used to be much in reading it , about that time ; and found , from time to time , an inward ...
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... seemed to be some image of the light of God's glory . I remember , about that time , I used greatly to long for the conversion of some that I was concerned with ; I could gladly honor them , and with delight be a servant to them , and ...
... seemed to be some image of the light of God's glory . I remember , about that time , I used greatly to long for the conversion of some that I was concerned with ; I could gladly honor them , and with delight be a servant to them , and ...
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... seemed sure , in such order as seemed rigorously consequent , he could fix for a familiar moment a necessary sequence of human movement . The result had satisfied him as little as at Harvard College . Where he saw sequence , other men ...
... seemed sure , in such order as seemed rigorously consequent , he could fix for a familiar moment a necessary sequence of human movement . The result had satisfied him as little as at Harvard College . Where he saw sequence , other men ...
Contents
PREFACE | xxxix |
The Colonies the Revolution and the New Nation | 3 |
JOHN SMITH 15801631 | 11 |
Copyright | |
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