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" ... his countenance is composed to the religious gloom, and he is groaning, sighing, and weeping for his sins. In a word, there is such an absurd mixture of the serious and comic, that were we convened for any other purpose than that of worshipping the... "
The Social Life of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century - Page 47
by Henry Grey Graham - 1899 - 545 pages
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A Letter from a Blacksmith to the Ministers and Elders of the Church of ...

A. T. Blacksmith, John Witherspoon, Lord Henry Home Kames, John Horne Tooke - Public worship - 1824 - 98 pages
...squeezing or treading on him; in an instant • after his countenance is composed to the religious gloom, and he is groaning, sighing, and weeping for...there is such an absurd mixture of the serious and comic, that were we convened for any other purpose, than that of worshipping the God B 14 A LETTER...
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The Works of Robert Burns

Robert Burns - Poets, English - 1840 - 872 pages
...for squeezing or treading on him ; in an instant after, his countenance is composed to the religious gloom, and he is groaning, sighing, and weeping for...there is such an absurd mixture of the serious and comic that, were we convened for any other purpose than that of worshipping the God and Governor of...
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Miscellaneous Thoughts on Men, Manners, and Things

David Hoffman - Etiquette - 1841 - 400 pages
...for squeezing, or treading on him; in, an instant after his countenance is composed to the religious gloom, and he is groaning, sighing, and weeping for...absurd mixture of the serious and the comic, that were they convened for any other purpose than that of worshipping the God and Governor of nature, the scene...
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The Dublin university magazine

University magazine - 1845 - 772 pages
...for squeezing or treading on him ; in an instant alter, his countenance is composed to the religious gloom, and he is groaning, sighing, and weeping for...there is such an absurd mixture of the serious and comic, that were we convened for any other purpose than that of worshipping the God and Governor of...
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Glen Tilloch, Part 2

Mrs. John Burnett Pratt - 1845 - 268 pages
...squeezing or treading on him ; in an instant after, all his countenance is composed to the religious gloom, and he is groaning, sighing, and weeping for...there is such an absurd mixture of the serious and comic, that were we convened for any other purpose than that of worshipping the God and Governor of...
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The life and works of Robert Burns, ed. by R. Chambers. Libr. ed, Volume 1

Robert Burns - 1856 - 728 pages
...Ids countenance is composed to the religious gloom, and he is groaning, sighing, and weeping for liis sins : in a word, there is such an absurd mixture of the serious and comic, that were we convened for any other purpose than that of worshipping the God and Governor of...
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Rambles Through the Land of Burns

Archibald R. Adamson - 1879 - 298 pages
...countenance is composed to the religious gloom, and he is groaning, sighing, and weeping for his sins—in a word, there is such an absurd mixture of the serious and comic that were we convened for any other purpose than that of worshipping the God and Governor of...
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English Language and Literary Criticism: English poetry

James Baldwin - English language - 1882 - 632 pages
...and a confusion of sexes, ages, and characters, . . . and such an absurd mixture of the serious and comic, that were we convened for any other purpose than that of worshiping the God and Governor of Nature, the scene would exceed all power of face." Burns's description...
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The Universalist Quarterly and General Review, Volume 26; Volume 46

Universalism - 1889 - 540 pages
...for squeezing or treading on him ; in an instant afterwards, his countenance is composed to religious gloom, and he is groaning, sighing, and weeping for...there is such an absurd mixture of the serious and comic, that were we convened for any other purpose than that of worshiping the God and Governor of...
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University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, Volume 25

1845 - 960 pages
...his countenance is composed to the religious gloom, and he is groaning, sighing, and weeping for bis sins ; — in a word, there is such an absurd mixture of the serious and comic, that were we convened fur any other purpose than that of worshipping the God and Governor of...
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