Cooper's Works, Volume 17Stringer and Townsend, 1855 - American literature |
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Page 17
... important years of his life that were notoriously passed in the work - house , but which , in consequence of that occurrence , are now easily authenticated by valid minutes and docu- mentary evidence . Thus it is that there exists no ...
... important years of his life that were notoriously passed in the work - house , but which , in consequence of that occurrence , are now easily authenticated by valid minutes and docu- mentary evidence . Thus it is that there exists no ...
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... important truth that the greatest events of this life are much oftener the result of impulse than of calculation . I have it by a direct tradition , orally conveyed from the lips of my ancestor , that no one could have been more lucky ...
... important truth that the greatest events of this life are much oftener the result of impulse than of calculation . I have it by a direct tradition , orally conveyed from the lips of my ancestor , that no one could have been more lucky ...
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... importance to a genealogy . Whatever may have been the real opinion of the reputed father touching his rights to the honors of that respectable title , he soon became as strongly attached to the child , as if it really owed its exist ...
... importance to a genealogy . Whatever may have been the real opinion of the reputed father touching his rights to the honors of that respectable title , he soon became as strongly attached to the child , as if it really owed its exist ...
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... important trust to some fellow - creature , and that it was better to commit the keeping of his mo- ney to one , who , knowing the secret by which it had been accumulated , had less inducement to be dishonest , than one who was exposed ...
... important trust to some fellow - creature , and that it was better to commit the keeping of his mo- ney to one , who , knowing the secret by which it had been accumulated , had less inducement to be dishonest , than one who was exposed ...
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... important event of her passage from this to a bet- ter world , as I have often had it repeated from the lips of one who was present , and who has had an important agency in since making me the man I am . This person was the clergyman of ...
... important event of her passage from this to a bet- ter world , as I have often had it repeated from the lips of one who was present , and who has had an important agency in since making me the man I am . This person was the clergyman of ...
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Page 327 - ... that he must have the attributes of a conscience, of which memory formed one of the most essential features. Conscience was defined to be " the faculty by which we judge of the goodness or wickedness of our own actions.