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... scenes of heart - felt sa- tisfaction succeed uninterruptedly to one another ! How many clear marks of benevolent intention appear every where around us ! What a profusion of beauty and ornament is poured forth on the face of nature ...
... scenes of heart - felt sa- tisfaction succeed uninterruptedly to one another ! How many clear marks of benevolent intention appear every where around us ! What a profusion of beauty and ornament is poured forth on the face of nature ...
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... scenes of sore distress which are passing at that moment throughout the world ; multitudes struggling for a poor sub- sistence , to support the wife and children whom they love , and who look up to them with eager eyes for that bread ...
... scenes of sore distress which are passing at that moment throughout the world ; multitudes struggling for a poor sub- sistence , to support the wife and children whom they love , and who look up to them with eager eyes for that bread ...
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... scene , where their affections would be for ever united ; and where death , disappointment , and misfor tunes , could no longer have access to them , or disturb their eternal felicity . 12 It had been intended to execute the lady Jane ...
... scene , where their affections would be for ever united ; and where death , disappointment , and misfor tunes , could no longer have access to them , or disturb their eternal felicity . 12 It had been intended to execute the lady Jane ...
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... scenes of na- ture , on which the eye rests with pleasure . 6 Whereas the suspicious man , having his imagination filled with all the shocking forms of human falsehood , deceit , and treachery , resembles the traveller in the wilderness ...
... scenes of na- ture , on which the eye rests with pleasure . 6 Whereas the suspicious man , having his imagination filled with all the shocking forms of human falsehood , deceit , and treachery , resembles the traveller in the wilderness ...
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... scene , the full moon rose , at length , in that clouded majesty , which Milton takes notice of ; and opened to the eye a new picture of nature , which was more finely shaded , and disposed among softer lights , than that which the sun ...
... scene , the full moon rose , at length , in that clouded majesty , which Milton takes notice of ; and opened to the eye a new picture of nature , which was more finely shaded , and disposed among softer lights , than that which the sun ...
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