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Nothing is pure but heaven , let that be the prize you seek , “ And taste and prove in that transporting sight , Joy without sorrow , without darkness light . " ANGER . It doth appal me To see your anger AMBITION . 15.
Nothing is pure but heaven , let that be the prize you seek , “ And taste and prove in that transporting sight , Joy without sorrow , without darkness light . " ANGER . It doth appal me To see your anger AMBITION . 15.
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He serves the worst of tyrannical masters , more faithfully than most Christians do the best , whose yoke is easy and burden light . He worships this world , but repudiates all its pleasures . He endures all the miseries of poverty ...
He serves the worst of tyrannical masters , more faithfully than most Christians do the best , whose yoke is easy and burden light . He worships this world , but repudiates all its pleasures . He endures all the miseries of poverty ...
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... on the other ; the sublimity of its language caps the climax of Rhetoric . As a History of that grand ' epoch , when God said , “ Let there be light ; and there was light , ” it stands alone , clothed in the majesty of ...
... on the other ; the sublimity of its language caps the climax of Rhetoric . As a History of that grand ' epoch , when God said , “ Let there be light ; and there was light , ” it stands alone , clothed in the majesty of ...
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As a book of Revelation , it shed a flood of light upon the wilderness of mind , that added fresh lustre and refulgence to those of Reason , Philosophy and Science , that had guided mankind to that auspicious , glorious era , when it ...
As a book of Revelation , it shed a flood of light upon the wilderness of mind , that added fresh lustre and refulgence to those of Reason , Philosophy and Science , that had guided mankind to that auspicious , glorious era , when it ...
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The primary landmarks of common knowledge and common sense , are , in view of many , lost , in the blaze of light , shed upon our country , by the luminaries of newly invented systems of science . The under current of practical ...
The primary landmarks of common knowledge and common sense , are , in view of many , lost , in the blaze of light , shed upon our country , by the luminaries of newly invented systems of science . The under current of practical ...
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| Title | The Moral Probe: Or One Hundred and Two Common Sense Essays on the Nature of Men and Things: Interspersed with Scraps of Science and History |
| Author | Levi Carroll Judson |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | The author, 1848 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 17 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 336 pages |
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