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Page xviii
... souls rejoice . After leaving Christ's Lamb spent a little more than two years in the South Sea House , where his elder and only brother John had a clerkship ; but in April , 1792 , through the influence probably of Mr Salt , he ...
... souls rejoice . After leaving Christ's Lamb spent a little more than two years in the South Sea House , where his elder and only brother John had a clerkship ; but in April , 1792 , through the influence probably of Mr Salt , he ...
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... soul be long since fled . Here are still to be seen stately porticos ; imposing staircases ; offices roomy as the state apartments in palaces - deserted , or thinly peopled with a few straggling clerks ; the still more sacred interiors ...
... soul be long since fled . Here are still to be seen stately porticos ; imposing staircases ; offices roomy as the state apartments in palaces - deserted , or thinly peopled with a few straggling clerks ; the still more sacred interiors ...
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... soul , to regret the abolition , and doing - away - with altogether , of those consolatory in- terstices , and sprinklings of freedom , through the four seasons , the red - letter days , now become , to all intents and purposes , dead ...
... soul , to regret the abolition , and doing - away - with altogether , of those consolatory in- terstices , and sprinklings of freedom , through the four seasons , the red - letter days , now become , to all intents and purposes , dead ...
Page 19
... souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians , were reposing here , as in some dormitory , or middle state . I do not want to handle , to profane the leaves , their winding - sheets . I could as soon ...
... souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians , were reposing here , as in some dormitory , or middle state . I do not want to handle , to profane the leaves , their winding - sheets . I could as soon ...
Page 36
... souls of Rousseau and John Locke chuckle to have seen us . Matthew Field belonged to that class of modest divines who affect to mix in equal proportion the gentleman , the scholar , and the Christian ; but , I know not how , the first ...
... souls of Rousseau and John Locke chuckle to have seen us . Matthew Field belonged to that class of modest divines who affect to mix in equal proportion the gentleman , the scholar , and the Christian ; but , I know not how , the first ...
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