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... sympathy with strangers , and enjoys con- fiding trust in the midst of all the gratifications arising from novelty . Diversity of clime , complexion , manners , and even of tongue , cannot separate , if the great pulses of the heart ...
... sympathy with strangers , and enjoys con- fiding trust in the midst of all the gratifications arising from novelty . Diversity of clime , complexion , manners , and even of tongue , cannot separate , if the great pulses of the heart ...
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... our friends ; let us be faithful patriots , but also enlarged citizens of the world . Let us honour worth wherever it exists , and delight to recognise true sympathies wherever we can find them . Those petty criticisms of INTRODUCTORY .
... our friends ; let us be faithful patriots , but also enlarged citizens of the world . Let us honour worth wherever it exists , and delight to recognise true sympathies wherever we can find them . Those petty criticisms of INTRODUCTORY .
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... sympathies which the world could not interfere with . After him came another and another , each new guest in the course of years introducing his friend , the characters of all in degree fraught with those principles 10 INTRODUCTORY .
... sympathies which the world could not interfere with . After him came another and another , each new guest in the course of years introducing his friend , the characters of all in degree fraught with those principles 10 INTRODUCTORY .
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... sympathies have been exchanged . Abhorring the vulgar soul that uses the hospitalities of a country to go home and ... sympathy to feel and act as becomes brotherly love . A passage in the conclusion of Dickens's Ameri- can Notes - one ...
... sympathies have been exchanged . Abhorring the vulgar soul that uses the hospitalities of a country to go home and ... sympathy to feel and act as becomes brotherly love . A passage in the conclusion of Dickens's Ameri- can Notes - one ...
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... - ing certainty of your sympathy that is most winning and touching . How often have I envied that self- command which enables them to relate such events with unshaken voice , and to dwell on deep sorrows THE CHILDREN . 15.
... - ing certainty of your sympathy that is most winning and touching . How often have I envied that self- command which enables them to relate such events with unshaken voice , and to dwell on deep sorrows THE CHILDREN . 15.
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Page 118 - 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 79 - 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 147 - 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 318 - 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