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Are there not the contritions , the faith , the hope , and the walk of Christian men ,
that unite the bravest and the best of both our countries , proclaiming us brethren
at present , and preparing the way to unions in the world , that is wide enough ...
Are there not the contritions , the faith , the hope , and the walk of Christian men ,
that unite the bravest and the best of both our countries , proclaiming us brethren
at present , and preparing the way to unions in the world , that is wide enough ...
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been practised by both countries , in seeking who first should welcome and
sustain Kossuth the hero , who , if he bring with him the heart and hopes of
Hungary , meets where he comes the heart and hopes of freemen ? Sacred is the
deposit ...
been practised by both countries , in seeking who first should welcome and
sustain Kossuth the hero , who , if he bring with him the heart and hopes of
Hungary , meets where he comes the heart and hopes of freemen ? Sacred is the
deposit ...
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Mary Grey Lundie Duncan. the characters of all in degree fraught with those
principles which prepare the mind for exalted intercourse , based on plans and
hopes which will live when the world and its life are extinct . Our earliest
specimens of ...
Mary Grey Lundie Duncan. the characters of all in degree fraught with those
principles which prepare the mind for exalted intercourse , based on plans and
hopes which will live when the world and its life are extinct . Our earliest
specimens of ...
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Sweetly and confidingly do they intrust you with their soul ' s secret , and amid the
riches of their new - found hopes , mingle their sweet smiles and tears with your
sympathiesand precious it is to hear of little disciples , taught early by the Great ...
Sweetly and confidingly do they intrust you with their soul ' s secret , and amid the
riches of their new - found hopes , mingle their sweet smiles and tears with your
sympathiesand precious it is to hear of little disciples , taught early by the Great ...
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too young to receive His influences , speaking words of resignation , of love , and
peace , to the weeping parents whom they are about to leave , and of hope and
joy of the welcoming Lord whose presence they are about to enter . On listening ...
too young to receive His influences , speaking words of resignation , of love , and
peace , to the weeping parents whom they are about to leave , and of hope and
joy of the welcoming Lord whose presence they are about to enter . On listening ...
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Page 116 - This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his trouble;" but this ought to be, and might be, the experience of every praying heart, were it not for lurking unbelief. In some of our Scottish prayer-meetings, I have felt a degree of distraction of purpose, and want of
Page 77 - orphans, in their Asylum at New York— " Uncle Sam * is rich enough To give us all a farm." The facility with which enough, and more than enough, is found to satisfy every hungry mouth on a farm, gives wonderful scope to the benevolent sentiment. Compassion needs but to well up at its
Page 145 - shining hair ; She is leaving the home of her childhood's mirth, She hath bid farewell to her father's hearth; Her place is now by another's side— Bring flowers for the locks of the fair young bride!" Then was wheeled in a table with the mighty cake, which is as much a " chieftain" at an American as at a British wedding. From it the groomsmen procured their
Page 316 - Thou shalt in anywise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him;" or, " That thou bear no sin for him." Let us turn from this desolate landscape, and gladly survey a new scene which begins to open
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| Title | America as I Found it America as I Found it, Mary Grey Lundie Duncan Collections speciales |
| Author | Mary Grey Lundie Duncan |
| Publisher | J. Nisbet and Company, 1852 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 5 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 380 pages |
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