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... continued to guide them for more than a thousand years since his birth , and which , for another thousand years , if the name of England shall last so long , will connect with it the name of Alfred . " EDWARD OCTAVUS FLAGG , D. D. ...
... continued to guide them for more than a thousand years since his birth , and which , for another thousand years , if the name of England shall last so long , will connect with it the name of Alfred . " EDWARD OCTAVUS FLAGG , D. D. ...
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... continued to be held in high esteem down to the time of the invention of printing , being one of the first works that was selected for the press . Orosius was a learned Spanish priest , born in the latter part of the fourth century ...
... continued to be held in high esteem down to the time of the invention of printing , being one of the first works that was selected for the press . Orosius was a learned Spanish priest , born in the latter part of the fourth century ...
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... continued to reside at Anundsjö for upwards of ten years , but in 1716 a document was addressed to the Crown by the Consistory at Hernösand , stating that , whereas the incumbent of the living of Nordmaling , PETRUS MARTINI ARCTÆDIUS to ...
... continued to reside at Anundsjö for upwards of ten years , but in 1716 a document was addressed to the Crown by the Consistory at Hernösand , stating that , whereas the incumbent of the living of Nordmaling , PETRUS MARTINI ARCTÆDIUS to ...
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... continued our investigations with unabated vigour and zeal until such time as we were , either of us , forced to confess that the other had outdistanced us , whereupon , acknow- ledging our defeat , we left the field to the more suc ...
... continued our investigations with unabated vigour and zeal until such time as we were , either of us , forced to confess that the other had outdistanced us , whereupon , acknow- ledging our defeat , we left the field to the more suc ...
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... continued . the Family , will his Toine , the dist ཡུ T as they to keen made fond know , ne some of them suitable to to that Business . When I search their own Situations , & therefore the For them , I found . fit to the imitated . Thes ...
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Page 12 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket...
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Page 8 - Brownell, very successful in his profession generally, and that by mild, encouraging methods. Under him I acquired fair writing pretty soon, but I failed in the arithmetic, and made no progress in it. At ten years old...
Page 8 - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there. I was in my working dress, my best clothes being to come round by sea.
Page 10 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Page 8 - ... same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales and turned them into verse; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again.