The Words of Hannah More ...Harper & brothers, 1836 |
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... whole work ? Is not this eagerly detected fault triumphantly kept in the fore - ground , while all that is valuable is overlooked and its efficacy defeated ; the criticism being at once intended to give prominence to the error of the ...
... whole work ? Is not this eagerly detected fault triumphantly kept in the fore - ground , while all that is valuable is overlooked and its efficacy defeated ; the criticism being at once intended to give prominence to the error of the ...
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... whole counsel of God . His own heart is deeply impressed with the dignity of his subject , and he deprecates the thought of shrinking from the boldest avowal of every truth , or of withholding the most powerful enforcement to the ...
... whole counsel of God . His own heart is deeply impressed with the dignity of his subject , and he deprecates the thought of shrinking from the boldest avowal of every truth , or of withholding the most powerful enforcement to the ...
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... whole is to be arranged , the machine would have been incomplete without his seemingly inconsiderable contribution . In the mean time the master unites , by apt junctures and articula- tions , parts which were not known to be ...
... whole is to be arranged , the machine would have been incomplete without his seemingly inconsiderable contribution . In the mean time the master unites , by apt junctures and articula- tions , parts which were not known to be ...
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... for the consistency of its catastrophe ! When we peruse the compositions of a human author , we look for unity and consistency in his whole plan ; we expect connection and relation between its several parts , and an ON PROVIDENCE . 29.
... for the consistency of its catastrophe ! When we peruse the compositions of a human author , we look for unity and consistency in his whole plan ; we expect connection and relation between its several parts , and an ON PROVIDENCE . 29.
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... whole work , and the skill , not without difficulty discerned , which arranges , connects , and , as it were , links together the several divisions . Yet do we not some- times presume to insinuate as if the great Author of all created ...
... whole work , and the skill , not without difficulty discerned , which arranges , connects , and , as it were , links together the several divisions . Yet do we not some- times presume to insinuate as if the great Author of all created ...
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