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... Thou , in whom my gifts bespeak me , who have blessed thee with such abundant favor and kindness ; who , from thine early age , as vicegerent of God the Creator , 35 have ordered by sure management thy life's proper course ; who in time ...
... Thou , in whom my gifts bespeak me , who have blessed thee with such abundant favor and kindness ; who , from thine early age , as vicegerent of God the Creator , 35 have ordered by sure management thy life's proper course ; who in time ...
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... thou canst see that my power is impotent . So mayest thou perceive that my achievement is defec- 220 tive , and consider that my strength is of trifling degree . Take counsel from the author of theological - 1 Reading nota , with B. and ...
... thou canst see that my power is impotent . So mayest thou perceive that my achievement is defec- 220 tive , and consider that my strength is of trifling degree . Take counsel from the author of theological - 1 Reading nota , with B. and ...
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... thou oughtest to give assent . For , 225 according to his sure testimony , man by my work- ing is born , by the might of God is born again . Through me he is called from not being into being ; through Him he is led from being on into a ...
... thou oughtest to give assent . For , 225 according to his sure testimony , man by my work- ing is born , by the might of God is born again . Through me he is called from not being into being ; through Him he is led from being on into a ...
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... life , glory , splendor , beauty , form , pattern of the world ! Thou who , guiding the universe with thy reins , dost join all things in firmness with the r ΤΟ knot of concord , and dost with the 32 [ METRE IV The Complaint of Nature.
... life , glory , splendor , beauty , form , pattern of the world ! Thou who , guiding the universe with thy reins , dost join all things in firmness with the r ΤΟ knot of concord , and dost with the 32 [ METRE IV The Complaint of Nature.
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... thou , a stranger from the skies , seekest the earth , why thou offerest to our world the gifts of thy deity , why thy features are bedewed with a shower of weeping , what the tears on thy countenance 35 foretell ? Weeping is a ...
... thou , a stranger from the skies , seekest the earth , why thou offerest to our world the gifts of thy deity , why thy features are bedewed with a shower of weeping , what the tears on thy countenance 35 foretell ? Weeping is a ...
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