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... the sense ; and you know you are little better than a parrot if you learn a thing of this kind by rote , without trying to see the use or the beauty of it . So , though we do all know the words of it so well , FIRST EVENING . 5.
... the sense ; and you know you are little better than a parrot if you learn a thing of this kind by rote , without trying to see the use or the beauty of it . So , though we do all know the words of it so well , FIRST EVENING . 5.
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... kind friends , and enjoy the advantages of a Christian education . When you are a few years older , and can understand all the very great privileges which belong to the condition of a young Christian in our Eng- lish Church , you will ...
... kind friends , and enjoy the advantages of a Christian education . When you are a few years older , and can understand all the very great privileges which belong to the condition of a young Christian in our Eng- lish Church , you will ...
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... kind words and endearing epithets with which they spoke of her , in remembrance of her lovely natural disposition , and of her promising Chris- tian character . " She was always so unselfish , " exclaimed Anna , one evening , " and that ...
... kind words and endearing epithets with which they spoke of her , in remembrance of her lovely natural disposition , and of her promising Chris- tian character . " She was always so unselfish , " exclaimed Anna , one evening , " and that ...
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... kind , but quite equally strik- ing as it seems to me , " said Sophia . " You probably remember that when God appointed Moses to be the leader of His people , He en- dowed him with the gift of prophecy ; and that all the people held him ...
... kind , but quite equally strik- ing as it seems to me , " said Sophia . " You probably remember that when God appointed Moses to be the leader of His people , He en- dowed him with the gift of prophecy ; and that all the people held him ...
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... kind of you to wish me to stay with you , but there are some of the girls who stay at home that I think grandmamma would not have liked me to asso- ciate with . " " Oh , Fanny ! " exclaimed Eliza , quite shocked . " Indeed , Eliza , I ...
... kind of you to wish me to stay with you , but there are some of the girls who stay at home that I think grandmamma would not have liked me to asso- ciate with . " " Oh , Fanny ! " exclaimed Eliza , quite shocked . " Indeed , Eliza , I ...
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