Songs of the Wilderness: Being a Collection of Poems, Written in Some Different Parts of the Territory of the Hudson's Bay Company, and in the Wilds of Canada, on the Route to that Territory in the Spring and Summer of 1844; Interspersed with Some Illustrative Notes |
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... in the running brooks , Sermons in stones , and good in every thing . LONDON : FRANCIS & JOHN RIVINGTON , ST . PAUL'S CHURCH YARD , AND WATERLOO PLACE R ASP ND ALDEN FOUNDATIONS 1520 L LONDON : GILBERT 1846 . SONGS OF THE WILDERNESS :
... in the running brooks , Sermons in stones , and good in every thing . LONDON : FRANCIS & JOHN RIVINGTON , ST . PAUL'S CHURCH YARD , AND WATERLOO PLACE R ASP ND ALDEN FOUNDATIONS 1520 L LONDON : GILBERT 1846 . SONGS OF THE WILDERNESS :
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... Church established for their benefit , appear in three letters from the Author to the Secretary of the Church Missionary Society , recently published by that body under the title of a Journal ' , of which they form a ' Journal of the ...
... Church established for their benefit , appear in three letters from the Author to the Secretary of the Church Missionary Society , recently published by that body under the title of a Journal ' , of which they form a ' Journal of the ...
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... Church Missionary Society , however , having seen good to follow up a suggestion thrown out by himself , that the proceeds of his Journal should go towards the fund for esta- blishing the Bishopric , and matters having been put in due ...
... Church Missionary Society , however , having seen good to follow up a suggestion thrown out by himself , that the proceeds of his Journal should go towards the fund for esta- blishing the Bishopric , and matters having been put in due ...
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... Church , by means of the pub- lications of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts 2 ; and he can hardly believe that there is a single Colonial Diocese in the empire , in which the need of help is more severely ...
... Church , by means of the pub- lications of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts 2 ; and he can hardly believe that there is a single Colonial Diocese in the empire , in which the need of help is more severely ...
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... Church in Canada , with lands which , at some distant day , are likely to be of considerable value . The Socie- ties for the Propagation of the Gospel and for Promoting Christian Knowledge ( the former of which allows £ 300 a - year for ...
... Church in Canada , with lands which , at some distant day , are likely to be of considerable value . The Socie- ties for the Propagation of the Gospel and for Promoting Christian Knowledge ( the former of which allows £ 300 a - year for ...
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