The Life and Correspondence of John Foster, Volume 2Wiley & Putnam, 1846 |
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... piety ; and of those whom habit brought weekly to their usual seats , several showed an utter list- lessness more depressing than their absence , which would have at least allowed the charitable hope , that they were deriving some ...
... piety ; and of those whom habit brought weekly to their usual seats , several showed an utter list- lessness more depressing than their absence , which would have at least allowed the charitable hope , that they were deriving some ...
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... piety of your departed associate . You can thus regard her as having passed beyond the very last of the pains and sorrows appointed to her existence by her Creator , as looking back on them all , and having entered on an eternity of ...
... piety of your departed associate . You can thus regard her as having passed beyond the very last of the pains and sorrows appointed to her existence by her Creator , as looking back on them all , and having entered on an eternity of ...
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... piety , his patience , his entire resignation . . were so delightfully displayed . What inestimable consolation to his affectionate friends ! The letter showed his exhaustion to be so extreme , that I anticipated his almost immediate ...
... piety , his patience , his entire resignation . . were so delightfully displayed . What inestimable consolation to his affectionate friends ! The letter showed his exhaustion to be so extreme , that I anticipated his almost immediate ...
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... piety ( if the parents are firmly per- suaded that real piety once kindled in the soul will never be suffered to be extinguished ) , and especially when this piety is associated with such mental powers as to promise eminent excellence ...
... piety ( if the parents are firmly per- suaded that real piety once kindled in the soul will never be suffered to be extinguished ) , and especially when this piety is associated with such mental powers as to promise eminent excellence ...
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... piety which brightened the termination of his life , and is so blessed a consolation to you in the mournful deprivation — was not this piety a star which rose in the darkness of his long affliction ? He was to become decidedly devoted ...
... piety which brightened the termination of his life , and is so blessed a consolation to you in the mournful deprivation — was not this piety a star which rose in the darkness of his long affliction ? He was to become decidedly devoted ...
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