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... consider ourselves as reading to them . We naturally and mechanically utter our words with such a degree of strength , as to make ourselves be heard by the person whom we address , provided he is within reach of our voice . As this is ...
... consider ourselves as reading to them . We naturally and mechanically utter our words with such a degree of strength , as to make ourselves be heard by the person whom we address , provided he is within reach of our voice . As this is ...
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... Consider yourselves not only as sensitive , but as rational beings ; not only as rational , but social ; not only as social , but immortal . Art thou poor ? -Show thyself active and industrious , peaceable and contented . Art thou ...
... Consider yourselves not only as sensitive , but as rational beings ; not only as rational , but social ; not only as social , but immortal . Art thou poor ? -Show thyself active and industrious , peaceable and contented . Art thou ...
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... consider , that though this may be sport to you , it is death to us . " Sully , the great statesman of France , always retained at his table , in his most prosperous days , the same frugality te which he had been accustomed in early ...
... consider , that though this may be sport to you , it is death to us . " Sully , the great statesman of France , always retained at his table , in his most prosperous days , the same frugality te which he had been accustomed in early ...
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... consider as reprobates . No one ought to consider himself as insignificant in the sight of his Creator . In our several stations , we are all sent forth to be labourers in the vineyard of our heavenly 24 PART 1 THE ENGLISH READER .
... consider as reprobates . No one ought to consider himself as insignificant in the sight of his Creator . In our several stations , we are all sent forth to be labourers in the vineyard of our heavenly 24 PART 1 THE ENGLISH READER .
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... consider whether it were longer safe to forsake the known and common track ; but remembering that the heat was now in its greatest violence , and that the plain was dusty and uneven , he resolved to pur sue the new path , which he ...
... consider whether it were longer safe to forsake the known and common track ; but remembering that the heat was now in its greatest violence , and that the plain was dusty and uneven , he resolved to pur sue the new path , which he ...
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