The Life and Correspondence of John Foster, Volume 2Bell & Daldy, 1861 - 1 pages |
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... event ; it was " a sense , " to use his own expressive language , " of privation partaking of desolateness . " " That memory , he said , I will never vanish from the minds of those who have heard his preaching , and frequently his ...
... event ; it was " a sense , " to use his own expressive language , " of privation partaking of desolateness . " " That memory , he said , I will never vanish from the minds of those who have heard his preaching , and frequently his ...
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... events , it is inexpressibly gratifying , on the ground of religion , philanthropy , and all views of improve- ment , to observe the prominent characteristic of our times -a mobility , a tendency to alteration , a shaking , and cracking ...
... events , it is inexpressibly gratifying , on the ground of religion , philanthropy , and all views of improve- ment , to observe the prominent characteristic of our times -a mobility , a tendency to alteration , a shaking , and cracking ...
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... from their experience . Where , in all Europe , have their class learnt any thing from events which might have instructed all but stocks and stones ? The pride of our aristocracy ( the proudest in the 18 LIFE OF JOHN FOSTER .
... from their experience . Where , in all Europe , have their class learnt any thing from events which might have instructed all but stocks and stones ? The pride of our aristocracy ( the proudest in the 18 LIFE OF JOHN FOSTER .
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... events and improvement in this country . " And then the reforming ministry , with a reformed House of Commons , -they will soon lose the favour of the people , and so be left bare to the unrelenting siege of their mortal enemies , if ...
... events and improvement in this country . " And then the reforming ministry , with a reformed House of Commons , -they will soon lose the favour of the people , and so be left bare to the unrelenting siege of their mortal enemies , if ...
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... events in any of them ; since this has given me the opportunity and advantage of seeing more of the nature of things and men , than I might if fixed during the main part of life in one place . I am now in the fifty - eighth year , and ...
... events in any of them ; since this has given me the opportunity and advantage of seeing more of the nature of things and men , than I might if fixed during the main part of life in one place . I am now in the fifty - eighth year , and ...
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