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Page 142
... religious state of the last twen years of his life . Not only the consistency of his person character has thus been destroyed , but great injury done religion in general . The whole of this double injustice is be visited upon Hayley ...
... religious state of the last twen years of his life . Not only the consistency of his person character has thus been destroyed , but great injury done religion in general . The whole of this double injustice is be visited upon Hayley ...
Page 144
... religion , and o which , rooted as the seeds of nervous disease were in constitution , religion could not avert . But mental disorga zation did , in its consequences , certainly affect this religio belief . The case of Cowper , then ...
... religion , and o which , rooted as the seeds of nervous disease were in constitution , religion could not avert . But mental disorga zation did , in its consequences , certainly affect this religio belief . The case of Cowper , then ...
Page 146
... religion from the letters Cowper ; but we do it for the purpose of making a remark two . which may not be without use . This abstinence fro religious topics seems to have kept pace with his growi fame , and the increase of his worldly ...
... religion from the letters Cowper ; but we do it for the purpose of making a remark two . which may not be without use . This abstinence fro religious topics seems to have kept pace with his growi fame , and the increase of his worldly ...
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