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... spirit of emulation among the spiritless , of ambition in the unambitious , and awaken all to a sense of the high responsibilities of their calling , and of the undying honours which will hallow the fame of those who excel in it . In ...
... spirit of emulation among the spiritless , of ambition in the unambitious , and awaken all to a sense of the high responsibilities of their calling , and of the undying honours which will hallow the fame of those who excel in it . In ...
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... spirit and design of the author , readers and speakers often mar , and sometimes totally pervert , his meaning . Hence the importance of atten- tion to rules , by the observance of which , misconceptions and erroneous modes of utterance ...
... spirit and design of the author , readers and speakers often mar , and sometimes totally pervert , his meaning . Hence the importance of atten- tion to rules , by the observance of which , misconceptions and erroneous modes of utterance ...
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... spirit - stirring sounds which affect the feel- ings and the senses as if drawn out by the voice of a heavenly enchanter ; the mechanist , to rear a monument of skill and in- genuity which calls forth the plaudits of an admiring world ...
... spirit - stirring sounds which affect the feel- ings and the senses as if drawn out by the voice of a heavenly enchanter ; the mechanist , to rear a monument of skill and in- genuity which calls forth the plaudits of an admiring world ...
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... spirit shall never depart from her . Armed with divine virtue , his gospel , secret , silent , unobserved ,, enters the hearts of men , and sets up an everlasting kingdom . It eludes all the vigilance , and baffles all the 4 Chap . I ...
... spirit shall never depart from her . Armed with divine virtue , his gospel , secret , silent , unobserved ,, enters the hearts of men , and sets up an everlasting kingdom . It eludes all the vigilance , and baffles all the 4 Chap . I ...
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... spirits , swelled with wind . ” " Ye heavens ! from high the dewy nectar pour , " And in soft silence shed the kindly shower . " A strange perversion of the sounds of t and d is sometimes made in words like the following : duty ...
... spirits , swelled with wind . ” " Ye heavens ! from high the dewy nectar pour , " And in soft silence shed the kindly shower . " A strange perversion of the sounds of t and d is sometimes made in words like the following : duty ...
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