Life and Letters of Fred. W. Robertson, M.A.: Incumbent of Trinity Chapel, Brighton, 1847-53, Volume 2Kegan Paul, Trench & Company, 1882 |
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... , JULY , August , 1853 . Mr. Robertson leaves Trinity Chapel for ever -- The Controversy with the Vicar of Brighton - The last sad Months - Death and Burial • 213 PAGR CHAPTER XIII . Robertson's personal Appearance — Is he X Contents of.
... , JULY , August , 1853 . Mr. Robertson leaves Trinity Chapel for ever -- The Controversy with the Vicar of Brighton - The last sad Months - Death and Burial • 213 PAGR CHAPTER XIII . Robertson's personal Appearance — Is he X Contents of.
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... leaving us to flounder in the mud of commonplace , unable to rise or sink above the dead level . Day by day my hopes are sinking . We dare not say the things we feel . Who can ? Who possibly may , when Records , Guardians , brother ...
... leaving us to flounder in the mud of commonplace , unable to rise or sink above the dead level . Day by day my hopes are sinking . We dare not say the things we feel . Who can ? Who possibly may , when Records , Guardians , brother ...
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... leave something behind . Suppose you try the mental discipline of giving all the hours which you would fritter on such things to one pursuit — say an interesting attendance on some course of not abstruse lectures . I pray you to grasp ...
... leave something behind . Suppose you try the mental discipline of giving all the hours which you would fritter on such things to one pursuit — say an interesting attendance on some course of not abstruse lectures . I pray you to grasp ...
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... leave the mind in a whirl of wonder and perplexity : the disputed facts , which are not recognised as facts , which produce controversy and excitement — mesmerism , electro- biology , odology . Half the time - nay , Excitement and its ...
... leave the mind in a whirl of wonder and perplexity : the disputed facts , which are not recognised as facts , which produce controversy and excitement — mesmerism , electro- biology , odology . Half the time - nay , Excitement and its ...
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... leaving the nobler organs free . Now , what is to be said for phrenology after this ? Does it not refute the whole system ? Had the said bird been pulling at the organs really in use by me — that is , all that is most sublime in ...
... leaving the nobler organs free . Now , what is to be said for phrenology after this ? Does it not refute the whole system ? Had the said bird been pulling at the organs really in use by me — that is , all that is most sublime in ...
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