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Make the poverty of such people honorable , even tolerable , by your benefactions , and multitudes , who have hitherto supported themselves , will follow an example so congenial to human depravity . Increase your charities , augment ...
Make the poverty of such people honorable , even tolerable , by your benefactions , and multitudes , who have hitherto supported themselves , will follow an example so congenial to human depravity . Increase your charities , augment ...
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... to brush away the cobwebs and rub off the rust , which have accumulated through disuse ; to put and keep the wheels and springs in motion ; and the reformation , which every good man prays for , will follow almost of course .
... to brush away the cobwebs and rub off the rust , which have accumulated through disuse ; to put and keep the wheels and springs in motion ; and the reformation , which every good man prays for , will follow almost of course .
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The time will not permit us to follow these devoted victims of arbitrary power , from one scene of insult and suffering to another , through a long course of years . Nor does the painful recital seem to be necessary ; as it would be ...
The time will not permit us to follow these devoted victims of arbitrary power , from one scene of insult and suffering to another , through a long course of years . Nor does the painful recital seem to be necessary ; as it would be ...
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But in 1617 , these pious exiles , began to turn their thoughts to the new world , and we must now follow them in their pilgrimage across the ocean . The reasons wbich influenced them to so perilous an undertaking , are thus briefly ...
But in 1617 , these pious exiles , began to turn their thoughts to the new world , and we must now follow them in their pilgrimage across the ocean . The reasons wbich influenced them to so perilous an undertaking , are thus briefly ...
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We shall soon follow them , and our children will come and lie down quietly by our side . When a hundred years more have passed away , not one who hears me will be alive , to commemorate the landing of the pilgrims .
We shall soon follow them , and our children will come and lie down quietly by our side . When a hundred years more have passed away , not one who hears me will be alive , to commemorate the landing of the pilgrims .
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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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