Memoir of the Rev. Pliny Fisk, etc. [With a portrait.]Crocker & Brewster, 1828 - 437 pages |
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... desire on his part to receive a public education - an event which they had some reasons to anticipate from his early partiality for books and study . His literary advantages , during the first seventeen years of his life , were confined ...
... desire on his part to receive a public education - an event which they had some reasons to anticipate from his early partiality for books and study . His literary advantages , during the first seventeen years of his life , were confined ...
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... desire to be employed in the vine- yard of his Master , he cherished the sweet confi- dence that his Lord , if he had a service for him to perform , would enable him to prepare for it . Experience has often taught the children of God ...
... desire to be employed in the vine- yard of his Master , he cherished the sweet confi- dence that his Lord , if he had a service for him to perform , would enable him to prepare for it . Experience has often taught the children of God ...
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... desire to be kept invariably in the path of duty . The trait of character , to which the preceding re- marks relate , may be beautifully illustrated by ref- erence to a part of his correspondence , not only while connected with the ...
... desire to be kept invariably in the path of duty . The trait of character , to which the preceding re- marks relate , may be beautifully illustrated by ref- erence to a part of his correspondence , not only while connected with the ...
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... desire , to be a missionary to the heathen . " Knowing that I was liable to misjudge , that my resolution might fail , that Providence might defeat my purpose , I said but little , except to particular friends . Since that time I have ...
... desire , to be a missionary to the heathen . " Knowing that I was liable to misjudge , that my resolution might fail , that Providence might defeat my purpose , I said but little , except to particular friends . Since that time I have ...
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... desires . I find a want of evidence , that the death - blow was ' struck . " In some respects that change resembles regen- eration , and in other respects it is unlike it . There seems in it something different from any of the ...
... desires . I find a want of evidence , that the death - blow was ' struck . " In some respects that change resembles regen- eration , and in other respects it is unlike it . There seems in it something different from any of the ...
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