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... strings of instruments which gave it voice , will still survive . As surely as our consciousness outlives the body's dissolution , all that is best and highest in our - a books will still continue to exist in minds inspired , 6 PREFACE.
... strings of instruments which gave it voice , will still survive . As surely as our consciousness outlives the body's dissolution , all that is best and highest in our - a books will still continue to exist in minds inspired , 6 PREFACE.
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... the fragment of a bone or skull intermixed with a kind of fresh moldering earth that some time or other had a place in the composition of a human body . Upon this I began to consider with myself , what innumerable multitudes of ...
... the fragment of a bone or skull intermixed with a kind of fresh moldering earth that some time or other had a place in the composition of a human body . Upon this I began to consider with myself , what innumerable multitudes of ...
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I observed , indeed , that the present war had filled the church with many of these uninhabited monuments , which had been erected to the memory of persons whose bodies were perhaps buried in the plains of Blenheim , or in the bosom of ...
I observed , indeed , that the present war had filled the church with many of these uninhabited monuments , which had been erected to the memory of persons whose bodies were perhaps buried in the plains of Blenheim , or in the bosom of ...
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Nay , on his deathbed , he describes him as being pleased , that while his soul returned to him who made it , his body should incorporate with the great mother of all things , and by that means become beneficial to mankind .
Nay , on his deathbed , he describes him as being pleased , that while his soul returned to him who made it , his body should incorporate with the great mother of all things , and by that means become beneficial to mankind .
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Oh , how dark it was in that fish's body ! It was darker yet than in the drain tunnel ; and then it was very narrow too . But the Tin Soldier remained unmoved , and lay at full length shouldering his musket .
Oh , how dark it was in that fish's body ! It was darker yet than in the drain tunnel ; and then it was very narrow too . But the Tin Soldier remained unmoved , and lay at full length shouldering his musket .
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| Title | The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Greatest Writers Volume 1 of The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, John Lawson Stoddard |
| Author | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Compiled by | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Publisher | G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 7 May 2015 |
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