The Map of Life, Conduct and CharacterLongmans, Green, 1899 - 328 pages |
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... once formidable sects which held slightly different opinions about these inscrutable relations gradually faded away . Such an unanimity on such subjects and attained by such methods does not appear to me to carry with it any over ...
... once formidable sects which held slightly different opinions about these inscrutable relations gradually faded away . Such an unanimity on such subjects and attained by such methods does not appear to me to carry with it any over ...
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... once asked an illustrious public man who had served his country with brilliant success in many lands , and who was spending the evening of his life as an active country gentleman in a place which he dearly loved , whether he did not ...
... once asked an illustrious public man who had served his country with brilliant success in many lands , and who was spending the evening of his life as an active country gentleman in a place which he dearly loved , whether he did not ...
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... once justified in the eyes of the believer acts which now seem the gravest moral aberrations . Many baser See , e.g. his funeral oration on Marie Thérèse d'Autriche . 2 See the enthusiastic eulogy of the persecution of the Huguenots in ...
... once justified in the eyes of the believer acts which now seem the gravest moral aberrations . Many baser See , e.g. his funeral oration on Marie Thérèse d'Autriche . 2 See the enthusiastic eulogy of the persecution of the Huguenots in ...
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... once connected . Carlyle , for example , sometimes spoke of himself as a Calvinist , and used language both in public and private as if there was no important difference between himself and the most orthodox Puritans , yet it is very ...
... once connected . Carlyle , for example , sometimes spoke of himself as a Calvinist , and used language both in public and private as if there was no important difference between himself and the most orthodox Puritans , yet it is very ...
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... once appeared as a Man of Sorrows to a Catholic Saint , and asked him what boon he would most desire . Lord , ' was the reply , that I might suffer most . ' This strain runs deeply through the whole ascetic literature and the whole ...
... once appeared as a Man of Sorrows to a Catholic Saint , and asked him what boon he would most desire . Lord , ' was the reply , that I might suffer most . ' This strain runs deeply through the whole ascetic literature and the whole ...
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