The elocutionist, a collection of pieces in prose and verse [by various authors, ed.] by J.S. KnowlesJames Sheridan Knowles 1825 |
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Page viii
... Peace to the Wicked , On the Importance of an Interest in the Divine Favour , · · The Melancholy Effects of Early Licentiousness , in a Sermon , preached for the Female Orphan House , Religion the distinguishing Quality of our Nature ...
... Peace to the Wicked , On the Importance of an Interest in the Divine Favour , · · The Melancholy Effects of Early Licentiousness , in a Sermon , preached for the Female Orphan House , Religion the distinguishing Quality of our Nature ...
Page xvi
... peace , as well as in war ' — Cæsar was endowed with every great and noble quality , that could give a man the ascendant in society . Full of desire to answer all demands - the truly be- nevolent , when their own funds are insufficient ...
... peace , as well as in war ' — Cæsar was endowed with every great and noble quality , that could give a man the ascendant in society . Full of desire to answer all demands - the truly be- nevolent , when their own funds are insufficient ...
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... peaceful was thy brow ! Thy face was like the sun after rain - like the moon in the silence of night - calm as the breast of the lake , when the loud wind is hushed into repose . Narrow is thy dwelling now - dark the place of thine ...
... peaceful was thy brow ! Thy face was like the sun after rain - like the moon in the silence of night - calm as the breast of the lake , when the loud wind is hushed into repose . Narrow is thy dwelling now - dark the place of thine ...
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... Peace ; by the dying love of a crucified Redeemer ; by the precious pro- mises and awful threatenings of the gospel ; by all your hopes of heaven and fears of hell ; by the worth of your immortal souls ; and by all that is dear to men ...
... Peace ; by the dying love of a crucified Redeemer ; by the precious pro- mises and awful threatenings of the gospel ; by all your hopes of heaven and fears of hell ; by the worth of your immortal souls ; and by all that is dear to men ...
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... peace of the nation , has he placed upon her bier ! And , as if to fill up the measure of his triumph , has he laid by her side , that babe , who , but for him , might have been the monarch of a future generation ; and he has done that ...
... peace of the nation , has he placed upon her bier ! And , as if to fill up the measure of his triumph , has he laid by her side , that babe , who , but for him , might have been the monarch of a future generation ; and he has done that ...
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