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That the restraint under which this notice is written , may not soon be removed , is , we doubt not , the earnest prayer of many others , as well as of THE PUBLISHERS . AMHERST , JUNE , 1834 . CONTENTS . ! Page .
That the restraint under which this notice is written , may not soon be removed , is , we doubt not , the earnest prayer of many others , as well as of THE PUBLISHERS . AMHERST , JUNE , 1834 . CONTENTS . ! Page .
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Such are the queries , which I doubt not , every week , and every day , perplex the minds of thousands , whose ears are ever open to the cry of the poor and the forsaken ; whose hearts devise , and whose hands execute liberal things .
Such are the queries , which I doubt not , every week , and every day , perplex the minds of thousands , whose ears are ever open to the cry of the poor and the forsaken ; whose hearts devise , and whose hands execute liberal things .
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Can the demoralizing tendency of practices like these , admit of a single doubt ? If the grand object were to furnish victims for the gallows , and tenants for the state prisons ; to train men to thest , robbery , murder , rape , and ...
Can the demoralizing tendency of practices like these , admit of a single doubt ? If the grand object were to furnish victims for the gallows , and tenants for the state prisons ; to train men to thest , robbery , murder , rape , and ...
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If any doubt , however , should arise in your minds , whether the stranger applying for charitable aid , ought to be ranked with such , direct him to the Selectmen of the town ; and , if , upon in: ; quiry , they find him a proper ...
If any doubt , however , should arise in your minds , whether the stranger applying for charitable aid , ought to be ranked with such , direct him to the Selectmen of the town ; and , if , upon in: ; quiry , they find him a proper ...
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That some of them are real objects of charity , cannot be doubted . ... Many , I doubt not , secretly act upon the same principle ; and from such persons everything ought to be withheld , till stern necessity drives them to some honest ...
That some of them are real objects of charity , cannot be doubted . ... Many , I doubt not , secretly act upon the same principle ; and from such persons everything ought to be withheld , till stern necessity drives them to some honest ...
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| Title | Miscellaneous Discourses and Reviews |
| Author | Heman Humphrey |
| Publisher | J. S. and C. Adams, 1834 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 22 Nov 2006 |
| Length | 415 pages |
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