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... gives them a healthy vigor . Too much pruning endangers a shrub , more than the shade of a dense forest . Dr. Cotton Mather made it a rule , never to resort to corporeal punishment , except for atrocious wrongs , or minor faults ...
... gives them a healthy vigor . Too much pruning endangers a shrub , more than the shade of a dense forest . Dr. Cotton Mather made it a rule , never to resort to corporeal punishment , except for atrocious wrongs , or minor faults ...
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... gives to her devotees ; often producing the consumption of poverty , and the pleurisy of blue ruin . She is the Ignis Fatuus of fancy ; the farther she is pursued , the deeper the mire in her path . Idleness is an ingredient in the ...
... gives to her devotees ; often producing the consumption of poverty , and the pleurisy of blue ruin . She is the Ignis Fatuus of fancy ; the farther she is pursued , the deeper the mire in her path . Idleness is an ingredient in the ...
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... give to satisfy its lofty desires ; the soul that hails death as the wel- come messenger , to deliver it from its ever changing ever decaying prison house of clay , called man ; on which time wages a perpetual war ; whitening his locks ...
... give to satisfy its lofty desires ; the soul that hails death as the wel- come messenger , to deliver it from its ever changing ever decaying prison house of clay , called man ; on which time wages a perpetual war ; whitening his locks ...
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... give those of that able statesman , John Adams , and those of one of his cotemporaries , whose name I do not find with the ex- tract . Mr. Adams remarked , " Oratory , as it consists in the expression of the countenance , graces of atti ...
... give those of that able statesman , John Adams , and those of one of his cotemporaries , whose name I do not find with the ex- tract . Mr. Adams remarked , " Oratory , as it consists in the expression of the countenance , graces of atti ...
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... give . That glory is within the reach of all , and is not dependent on the caprice of the multi- tude . To obtain it , we have only to enlist under King Immanuel , fight manfully the good fight of faith ; he will enable us to triumph ...
... give . That glory is within the reach of all , and is not dependent on the caprice of the multi- tude . To obtain it , we have only to enlist under King Immanuel , fight manfully the good fight of faith ; he will enable us to triumph ...
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