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Page 52
... never may end For the sun is now set that enliven'd the scene , And an age must be past ere it rises again . ; Already deprived of its splendour and heat , I feel thee more slowly , more heavily beat ; Perhaps overstrain'd with the ...
... never may end For the sun is now set that enliven'd the scene , And an age must be past ere it rises again . ; Already deprived of its splendour and heat , I feel thee more slowly , more heavily beat ; Perhaps overstrain'd with the ...
Page 145
... never attended the ordinances of public worship , and , so far as appears , never , except during one short interval , sought to draw near unto a throne of mercy in secret prayer . But in all this there was the most painful self ...
... never attended the ordinances of public worship , and , so far as appears , never , except during one short interval , sought to draw near unto a throne of mercy in secret prayer . But in all this there was the most painful self ...
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... never forsook me , till the object of my incessant care was sinking into the valley of the shadow of death . " * The second day's progress brought the party to Barton Mills , and the third to their destination , North Tuddenham in ...
... never forsook me , till the object of my incessant care was sinking into the valley of the shadow of death . " * The second day's progress brought the party to Barton Mills , and the third to their destination , North Tuddenham in ...
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