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... hope , though a faint one , that when read they may be more useful than when heard ; and perhaps the name , ' Lost Labour , ' may help to draw attention to them . V. I am inexpressibly grieved and shocked at what you say . Yet when I ...
... hope , though a faint one , that when read they may be more useful than when heard ; and perhaps the name , ' Lost Labour , ' may help to draw attention to them . V. I am inexpressibly grieved and shocked at what you say . Yet when I ...
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... hope , when you see it in print . Nice encourage- ment to a preacher to take pains , when he has a sort of conviction that it matters very little what he says ! V. My most excellent of friends , you are growing cynical . ness . the ...
... hope , when you see it in print . Nice encourage- ment to a preacher to take pains , when he has a sort of conviction that it matters very little what he says ! V. My most excellent of friends , you are growing cynical . ness . the ...
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... hope that ser- mons , let me say your own in particular , are more listened to , aye , and remembered , than you seem to suppose . Of course I am unable to account for your never having been told , even by your own family , of that ...
... hope that ser- mons , let me say your own in particular , are more listened to , aye , and remembered , than you seem to suppose . Of course I am unable to account for your never having been told , even by your own family , of that ...
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... hope , that I want to turn preacher myself if I make the trite and obvious remark that the usefulness of a sermon is at least as much dependent upon the atti- tude of the hearer as upon the efficiency of the man he hears . I suppose if ...
... hope , that I want to turn preacher myself if I make the trite and obvious remark that the usefulness of a sermon is at least as much dependent upon the atti- tude of the hearer as upon the efficiency of the man he hears . I suppose if ...
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... hope of disentangling my- self . All the nephews and grandsons of all the archdeacons , including those now in their cradles , will clearly be promoted be- fore me . The terrible injustice of the thing is patent . C. F. I am very sorry ...
... hope of disentangling my- self . All the nephews and grandsons of all the archdeacons , including those now in their cradles , will clearly be promoted be- fore me . The terrible injustice of the thing is patent . C. F. I am very sorry ...
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