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Page 103
It is indeed a half - hour of the last importance . The very thought of it renders its
elder brethren , the hours of the night , sleepless and uncomfortable , and its near
approach is announced to the eyes and ears of drowsy mortals by the flashing of
...
It is indeed a half - hour of the last importance . The very thought of it renders its
elder brethren , the hours of the night , sleepless and uncomfortable , and its near
approach is announced to the eyes and ears of drowsy mortals by the flashing of
...
Page 104
Other half - hours go on in a common jog - trot way , or , as I have heretofore
remarked , loiteringly - lolling and ... and the poor half - hour expires , stifled with
embraces and adieus , and goes to the tomb of all the half - hours under a parting
...
Other half - hours go on in a common jog - trot way , or , as I have heretofore
remarked , loiteringly - lolling and ... and the poor half - hour expires , stifled with
embraces and adieus , and goes to the tomb of all the half - hours under a parting
...
Page 110
But O , how many are there , who , folded in wilful drowsiness , though they
cannot dismiss the haunting thought , postpone to the very last half - hour , all
serious consideration of the unspeakably momentous interests of this , the only
journey ...
But O , how many are there , who , folded in wilful drowsiness , though they
cannot dismiss the haunting thought , postpone to the very last half - hour , all
serious consideration of the unspeakably momentous interests of this , the only
journey ...
Page 247
She shortly returned , saying that Mr . Jefferies was then too much occupied to
attend to any visitor at that late hour . " Tell him , " said the man , in an earnest but
feeble voice , “ that one allied to him by every tie that should bind one man to ...
She shortly returned , saying that Mr . Jefferies was then too much occupied to
attend to any visitor at that late hour . " Tell him , " said the man , in an earnest but
feeble voice , “ that one allied to him by every tie that should bind one man to ...
Page 453
An hour before I think no man could have persuaded me that there was yet
something worse than I under heaven , now I began to believe that one hour ago
I was much to be envied . “ The judgment of God never came into my mind , but
only ...
An hour before I think no man could have persuaded me that there was yet
something worse than I under heaven , now I began to believe that one hour ago
I was much to be envied . “ The judgment of God never came into my mind , but
only ...
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