The Mormons: or Latter-day saints. With memoirs of the life and death of Joseph Smith |
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Page 17
... whole wilderness around was illuminated in a most glorious and brilliant manner . He expected to see the leaves and boughs of the trees consumed as soon as the light came in contact with them ; but perceiving that it did not produce ...
... whole wilderness around was illuminated in a most glorious and brilliant manner . He expected to see the leaves and boughs of the trees consumed as soon as the light came in contact with them ; but perceiving that it did not produce ...
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... whole . This volume was some- thing near six inches in thickness , a part of which was sealed . The characters or letters upon the unsealed part were small and beau- tifully engraved . The whole book exhibited many marks of antiquity in ...
... whole . This volume was some- thing near six inches in thickness , a part of which was sealed . The characters or letters upon the unsealed part were small and beau- tifully engraved . The whole book exhibited many marks of antiquity in ...
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... whole story about my pronouncing the Mormonite inscrip- tion to be ' Reformed Egyptian Hieroglyphics , ' is perfectly false . Some years ago a plain , apparently simple - hearted , farmer called on me with a note from Dr. Mitchell , of ...
... whole story about my pronouncing the Mormonite inscrip- tion to be ' Reformed Egyptian Hieroglyphics , ' is perfectly false . Some years ago a plain , apparently simple - hearted , farmer called on me with a note from Dr. Mitchell , of ...
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... whole ended in a rude delineation of a circle , divided into various compartments , decked with various strange marks , and evidently copied after the Mexican Calendar , given by Humboldt , but copied in such a way as not to betray the ...
... whole ended in a rude delineation of a circle , divided into various compartments , decked with various strange marks , and evidently copied after the Mexican Calendar , given by Humboldt , but copied in such a way as not to betray the ...
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... whole of it read . From New Salem we removed to Pittsburgh , in Pennsylvania . Here Mr. Spaulding found a friend and acquaintance , in the person of Mr. Patterson , an editor of a newspaper . He exhibited his manuscript to Mr. Patterson ...
... whole of it read . From New Salem we removed to Pittsburgh , in Pennsylvania . Here Mr. Spaulding found a friend and acquaintance , in the person of Mr. Patterson , an editor of a newspaper . He exhibited his manuscript to Mr. Patterson ...
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