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The light pages which follow design to be just , candid , and kind — not “ hinting a
fault , and hesitating a dislike , " but admiring and blaming with equal simplicity
Every one admits that the present condition of things on the earth is not what it ...
The light pages which follow design to be just , candid , and kind — not “ hinting a
fault , and hesitating a dislike , " but admiring and blaming with equal simplicity
Every one admits that the present condition of things on the earth is not what it ...
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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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Such a cry , about liberty of conscience , has hooted all catechisms and creeds
out of the present scheme of instruction ; and , in virtue of the city having at
present an inheritance of children , whose parents , as Romanists , dare not , or
as ...
Such a cry , about liberty of conscience , has hooted all catechisms and creeds
out of the present scheme of instruction ; and , in virtue of the city having at
present an inheritance of children , whose parents , as Romanists , dare not , or
as ...
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Another painful effect of this liberty - of - conscience scheme struck me again and
again in attending the Inspector ' s examinations , viz . , the abridgment of his
liberty , and that of any Christian minister ' s who might be present , so that their ...
Another painful effect of this liberty - of - conscience scheme struck me again and
again in attending the Inspector ' s examinations , viz . , the abridgment of his
liberty , and that of any Christian minister ' s who might be present , so that their ...
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in a sort of panoramic review while we are busily observing the present - or rather
, what we witness now forms the foreground , while what we have seen
elsewhere forms the background of the picture — so it is inevitable that
comparison ...
in a sort of panoramic review while we are busily observing the present - or rather
, what we witness now forms the foreground , while what we have seen
elsewhere forms the background of the picture — so it is inevitable that
comparison ...
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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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