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Convinced of the utility of a volume of short , pungent , and practical articles ;
relating to the multiform and every - day concerns of life , I have endeavored to
repair the loss , by again putting my thoughts on paper , and giving to the world
the ...
Convinced of the utility of a volume of short , pungent , and practical articles ;
relating to the multiform and every - day concerns of life , I have endeavored to
repair the loss , by again putting my thoughts on paper , and giving to the world
the ...
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Dr. Cotton Mather placed over the door of his office , BE SHORT . These two
words should be placed over the speakers ' chairs in our legislative halls , the
benches of judges , the tables of authors , and over the clocks of some churches .
Dr. Cotton Mather placed over the door of his office , BE SHORT . These two
words should be placed over the speakers ' chairs in our legislative halls , the
benches of judges , the tables of authors , and over the clocks of some churches .
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Let your formal visits , is coming short of the mark . Let your communications to
those who are busy , be short . Hold no man by the button in the street , or in the
door - be short . Let your anecdotes and stories be short Let your credits , if you ...
Let your formal visits , is coming short of the mark . Let your communications to
those who are busy , be short . Hold no man by the button in the street , or in the
door - be short . Let your anecdotes and stories be short Let your credits , if you ...
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Disease laughs , and death grins at the folly of the goddess , and the zeal of the
worshippers . If she orders a bag full of notions on the hips , a Chinese shoe on
the foot , a short cut , a trail , a hoop , or balloon sleeve , or no sleeve , for a dress
...
Disease laughs , and death grins at the folly of the goddess , and the zeal of the
worshippers . If she orders a bag full of notions on the hips , a Chinese shoe on
the foot , a short cut , a trail , a hoop , or balloon sleeve , or no sleeve , for a dress
...
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But how short the triumph — bow transient the conquest . Jesus put forth his
recovered strength ; crushed the sting of death ; snatched from the grave the
laurels of boasted victory ; placed them upon his own brow ; burst the cleft rock
tomb ...
But how short the triumph — bow transient the conquest . Jesus put forth his
recovered strength ; crushed the sting of death ; snatched from the grave the
laurels of boasted victory ; placed them upon his own brow ; burst the cleft rock
tomb ...
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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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