The Sermons of Mr. Yorick ...J. Dodsley, 1776 |
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... best title both to present *Commendation and future reward.— The gift of continency depends not, as these affirm, upon a mere coldness of the constitution—or patience and humility from an insensibility of it; —but they are virtues ...
... best title both to present *Commendation and future reward.— The gift of continency depends not, as these affirm, upon a mere coldness of the constitution—or patience and humility from an insensibility of it; —but they are virtues ...
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... best of us are but upheld, and graciously kept upright; and whenever this divine assistance is withdrawn, or suspended,—all history, especially , the sacred, is full of melancholy instances of what man is, when God leaves him to himself ...
... best of us are but upheld, and graciously kept upright; and whenever this divine assistance is withdrawn, or suspended,—all history, especially , the sacred, is full of melancholy instances of what man is, when God leaves him to himself ...
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... best schemes and warmest endeaVOurS. And then, for those accidents to which our persons are as liable as our labours, -he observes these three things;–first, the natural infirmities of our bodies,—which alternately lay us open to the ...
... best schemes and warmest endeaVOurS. And then, for those accidents to which our persons are as liable as our labours, -he observes these three things;–first, the natural infirmities of our bodies,—which alternately lay us open to the ...
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... invigorating, more gene. rally-drained away the vitals of government, t-and, at the best, ended 3-, } but in a brighter and more offenta-" this shall produce no alteration in his condućt.—Tell him the s E/RM 6 Nixxv, * 57 :
... invigorating, more gene. rally-drained away the vitals of government, t-and, at the best, ended 3-, } but in a brighter and more offenta-" this shall produce no alteration in his condućt.—Tell him the s E/RM 6 Nixxv, * 57 :
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... of invigorating, more gene. " rally-drained away the vitals of government, and, at the best, ended "o but in a brighter and more offenta-" " tious kind of poverty and desolation: —therefore he laid aside - S E/RM O'N' 153 v. 2 sy.
... of invigorating, more gene. " rally-drained away the vitals of government, and, at the best, ended "o but in a brighter and more offenta-" " tious kind of poverty and desolation: —therefore he laid aside - S E/RM O'N' 153 v. 2 sy.
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