The True History of Joshua Davidson, Christian and CommunistChatto and Windus, 1874 - 279 pages |
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... feeling since the days of Pontius Pilate and Barabbas . Still the leaders of popular thought , while despis- ing the old , deny the new , and deliver it up to be scourged of ignorance , superstition , and terrified Conservatism ; still ...
... feeling since the days of Pontius Pilate and Barabbas . Still the leaders of popular thought , while despis- ing the old , deny the new , and deliver it up to be scourged of ignorance , superstition , and terrified Conservatism ; still ...
Page xix
... feel it to be a duty I owe his memory to tell the truth as I know it ; leaving the world to judge between what I , his nearest friend , knew of him , and what gossips and his enemies have falsely said . As I am neither a gentleman nor a ...
... feel it to be a duty I owe his memory to tell the truth as I know it ; leaving the world to judge between what I , his nearest friend , knew of him , and what gossips and his enemies have falsely said . As I am neither a gentleman nor a ...
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... feel this , why don't you and all the clergy live like the apostles , and give what you have to the poor ? " cried Joshua , clasping his hands and making a step forward , the tears in his eyes . " Why , when you read that verse , Whoso ...
... feel this , why don't you and all the clergy live like the apostles , and give what you have to the poor ? " cried Joshua , clasping his hands and making a step forward , the tears in his eyes . " Why , when you read that verse , Whoso ...
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... feeling as of old primitive times to be sitting there under the clear sky of a summer's evening , with the larks singing over head , and the swallows and sea birds flashing through the air , the voice of the waves JOSHUA DAVIDSON . 15 ...
... feeling as of old primitive times to be sitting there under the clear sky of a summer's evening , with the larks singing over head , and the swallows and sea birds flashing through the air , the voice of the waves JOSHUA DAVIDSON . 15 ...
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... , and because Christ had promised : and we knelt beside him , not so much trembling as exalted , feeling in the very presence of the Divine , and that He would do unto us according to His word . But the rock stood still JOSHUA DAVIDSON .
... , and because Christ had promised : and we knelt beside him , not so much trembling as exalted , feeling in the very presence of the Divine , and that He would do unto us according to His word . But the rock stood still JOSHUA DAVIDSON .
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