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... beauty of his face and person , lordly in the easy sweep and grasp of his intellect , wonderful in his purity of soul and in his sim- ple devotion to the truth , the world has seldom seen in finer combination all the great qualities of ...
... beauty of his face and person , lordly in the easy sweep and grasp of his intellect , wonderful in his purity of soul and in his sim- ple devotion to the truth , the world has seldom seen in finer combination all the great qualities of ...
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... beauty of a meek and forgiving spirit . He was finally forced to resign in 1750 . In 1751 he was called to Stockbridge , forty miles west of Northampton , to serve as pastor to a congregation there , and at the same time to act as ...
... beauty of a meek and forgiving spirit . He was finally forced to resign in 1750 . In 1751 he was called to Stockbridge , forty miles west of Northampton , to serve as pastor to a congregation there , and at the same time to act as ...
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... beauty . Among the great men developed and brought into promi- nence by the conflict with Great Britain , a very high place must be assigned to Thomas Jefferson . After Washington , whom a grateful country has invested with an almost ...
... beauty . Among the great men developed and brought into promi- nence by the conflict with Great Britain , a very high place must be assigned to Thomas Jefferson . After Washington , whom a grateful country has invested with an almost ...
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... beauty of his song ; Who weighs him from his life apart Must do his nobler nature wrong . " The moral element in literature is of the highest impor- tance . It is a French maxim , often disregarded in France as elsewhere , that ...
... beauty of his song ; Who weighs him from his life apart Must do his nobler nature wrong . " The moral element in literature is of the highest impor- tance . It is a French maxim , often disregarded in France as elsewhere , that ...
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... beauty of his song ; Who weighs him from his life apart Must do his nobler nature wrong . " The moral element in literature is of the highest impor- It is a French maxim , often disregarded in France as elsewhere , that " Nothing is ...
... beauty of his song ; Who weighs him from his life apart Must do his nobler nature wrong . " The moral element in literature is of the highest impor- It is a French maxim , often disregarded in France as elsewhere , that " Nothing is ...
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