Notes and Narratives of a Six Years' Mission, Principally Among the Dens of London |
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... received from those highly - valued advisers , they carefully examined the prospectus , and expressed a decided opinion that it would be far better to write an account of personal labours , than to attempt any account of the labours of ...
... received from those highly - valued advisers , they carefully examined the prospectus , and expressed a decided opinion that it would be far better to write an account of personal labours , than to attempt any account of the labours of ...
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... received re- specting the formidable disturbances which once took place on my district and in the neighbour- hood have been of a very strange character . An old Bow Street officer , who yet lives in the neigh- bourhood , has detailed ...
... received re- specting the formidable disturbances which once took place on my district and in the neighbour- hood have been of a very strange character . An old Bow Street officer , who yet lives in the neigh- bourhood , has detailed ...
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... received no instruction in the very elements of knowledge . Such have frequently bitterly lamented , that when they were children charity schools were scarcely known in one parish of the country in a hundred . To attempt conveying ...
... received no instruction in the very elements of knowledge . Such have frequently bitterly lamented , that when they were children charity schools were scarcely known in one parish of the country in a hundred . To attempt conveying ...
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... received my missionary visits very re- spectfully , and listened attentively to religious instruction respecting sin and salvation , but I never was enabled to affect her heart with a sense of the impropriety of fortune - telling . She ...
... received my missionary visits very re- spectfully , and listened attentively to religious instruction respecting sin and salvation , but I never was enabled to affect her heart with a sense of the impropriety of fortune - telling . She ...
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... received no school training whatever . I calculate that not more than one - third of the adults upon my district can read at all , and that not more than one - sixth can even read tolerably . On asking many who have said they could read ...
... received no school training whatever . I calculate that not more than one - third of the adults upon my district can read at all , and that not more than one - sixth can even read tolerably . On asking many who have said they could read ...
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