The Life and Correspondence of John Foster, Volume 2Bell & Daldy, 1861 - 1 pages |
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... feel it to be very friendly , and to do me more honour than I can justly claim , I have to make a very simple story : -namely , that I have been , 1 may say almost all my life , and still more in the latter part of it , in the uniform ...
... feel it to be very friendly , and to do me more honour than I can justly claim , I have to make a very simple story : -namely , that I have been , 1 may say almost all my life , and still more in the latter part of it , in the uniform ...
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... feel that of the two besetting sins of human nature , selfish neglect and selfish agitation , the former is the more common , and has in the long run done far more harm than the latter , although the outbreaks of the latter while they ...
... feel that of the two besetting sins of human nature , selfish neglect and selfish agitation , the former is the more common , and has in the long run done far more harm than the latter , although the outbreaks of the latter while they ...
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... feel something very like a commiserating sympathy ; for the industry must have been very great and protracted . Unthinking readers are little aware what it has cost an author or editor , to arrange and elucidate a multi- tude of ...
... feel something very like a commiserating sympathy ; for the industry must have been very great and protracted . Unthinking readers are little aware what it has cost an author or editor , to arrange and elucidate a multi- tude of ...
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... feel your situation , having gone into the House in the expectation of being in endless battle array against that fortress of power , and any gang that was likely ever to garrison it . You must feel a sad quenching of that fine ferocity ...
... feel your situation , having gone into the House in the expectation of being in endless battle array against that fortress of power , and any gang that was likely ever to garrison it . You must feel a sad quenching of that fine ferocity ...
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... feel this demand strongly grounded on a strict claim of right ; for I believe there is essentially and inseparably in popery , something of deadly tendency to the welfare of a state . That point , however , I deem not worth debating in ...
... feel this demand strongly grounded on a strict claim of right ; for I believe there is essentially and inseparably in popery , something of deadly tendency to the welfare of a state . That point , however , I deem not worth debating in ...
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