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Never was a natural man engaged earnestly to seek his salvation ; never were any such brought to cry after wisdom , and lift up their voice for understanding , and to wres- tle with God in prayer for mercy ; and never was one humbled ...
Never was a natural man engaged earnestly to seek his salvation ; never were any such brought to cry after wisdom , and lift up their voice for understanding , and to wres- tle with God in prayer for mercy ; and never was one humbled ...
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I never did shoot at but one , and I'd never forgiven myself for that , had it weighed less than forty pounds . I wouldn't draw a rifle on any thing less than that ; and when I meet with another wild turkey of the same weight I will ...
I never did shoot at but one , and I'd never forgiven myself for that , had it weighed less than forty pounds . I wouldn't draw a rifle on any thing less than that ; and when I meet with another wild turkey of the same weight I will ...
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I can never help applying to him what Ben Jonson said of Bacon : " There happened in my time one noble speaker , who was full of gravity in his speaking . His language was nobly censorious . No man ever spake more neatly , more pressly ...
I can never help applying to him what Ben Jonson said of Bacon : " There happened in my time one noble speaker , who was full of gravity in his speaking . His language was nobly censorious . No man ever spake more neatly , more pressly ...
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| Title | American Literature: From the beginning to 1860.-v. 2. From 1860 to the present Volume 1 of American Literature: An Anthology and Critical Survey, John Towner Frederick |
| Author | John Towner Frederick |
| Editors | Joe Lee Davis, John Towner Frederick, Frank Luther Mott |
| Compiled by | Joe Lee Davis, John Towner Frederick, Frank Luther Mott |
| Publisher | C. Scribner's Sons, 1948 |
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