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... spirit , was also taken from him a few years before his death , after she had shared with the tenderest affection in all his fortunes , and contributed near half a century to his happiness and comfort . Dr. Blair had been naturally of a ...
... spirit , was also taken from him a few years before his death , after she had shared with the tenderest affection in all his fortunes , and contributed near half a century to his happiness and comfort . Dr. Blair had been naturally of a ...
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... spirit , their probity , and their truth . They arrogate to them- selves all the manly and the active virtues . But devout affections , and religious duties , they treat with contempt , as founded on shadowy speculations , and 15 2 SERM ...
... spirit , their probity , and their truth . They arrogate to them- selves all the manly and the active virtues . But devout affections , and religious duties , they treat with contempt , as founded on shadowy speculations , and 15 2 SERM ...
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... spirit . * If therefore , while piety seems ardent , morality shall decline , you have full reason to believe , that into that piety some corrupting in- gredients have entered . And if ever your regard to morality shall totally fail ...
... spirit . * If therefore , while piety seems ardent , morality shall decline , you have full reason to believe , that into that piety some corrupting in- gredients have entered . And if ever your regard to morality shall totally fail ...
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... spirit of grace from whose inspiration his piety and his charity flow . When he looks around him on the world , he is soothed with the pleasing remembrance of good offices which he has done , or at least has studied to do , to many who ...
... spirit of grace from whose inspiration his piety and his charity flow . When he looks around him on the world , he is soothed with the pleasing remembrance of good offices which he has done , or at least has studied to do , to many who ...
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... spirit . Trained , by Divine grace , to enjoy with moderation the advantages of the world , neither lifted up by success , nor enerv- ated with sensuality , he meets the changes in his lot without unmanly dejection . He is inured to ...
... spirit . Trained , by Divine grace , to enjoy with moderation the advantages of the world , neither lifted up by success , nor enerv- ated with sensuality , he meets the changes in his lot without unmanly dejection . He is inured to ...
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