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Page viii
... fortune to attract the notice of Professor Stevenson , and , with circumstances honourable to the author , was appointed to be read in public at the conclusion of the session . This mark of distinction made a deep impression on his mind ...
... fortune to attract the notice of Professor Stevenson , and , with circumstances honourable to the author , was appointed to be read in public at the conclusion of the session . This mark of distinction made a deep impression on his mind ...
Page xiii
... fortune of Dr. Blair to appear at a period when the literature of his country was just beginning to receive a polish and a useful direction ; and when it was emulously cultivated by a bright constellation of young men who are destined ...
... fortune of Dr. Blair to appear at a period when the literature of his country was just beginning to receive a polish and a useful direction ; and when it was emulously cultivated by a bright constellation of young men who are destined ...
Page 27
... fortune ; that what one feels within is of much greater importance than all that befals him without . Let a man be brought into some such severe and trying si- tuation , as fixes the attention of the public on his behaviour . The first ...
... fortune ; that what one feels within is of much greater importance than all that befals him without . Let a man be brought into some such severe and trying si- tuation , as fixes the attention of the public on his behaviour . The first ...
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... fortune till their spirits are exhausted , gladly would they retreat at last to the sanc- tuary of religion . But that sanctuary is shut against them ; nay , it is en- vironed with terrors . They behold there , not a protector to whom ...
... fortune till their spirits are exhausted , gladly would they retreat at last to the sanc- tuary of religion . But that sanctuary is shut against them ; nay , it is en- vironed with terrors . They behold there , not a protector to whom ...
Page 66
... fortune , indeed , may often be promiscuous ; that is , dispropor- tioned to the moral characters of men ; but the allotment of real happiness is never so . For to the wicked there is no peace . They are like the trou- bled sea when it ...
... fortune , indeed , may often be promiscuous ; that is , dispropor- tioned to the moral characters of men ; but the allotment of real happiness is never so . For to the wicked there is no peace . They are like the trou- bled sea when it ...
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