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... nature , on the evidence of very many bright instances . The Wesleys had the advantage of this law ; and their mother , a woman of extraordinary intelligence and force of mind , of correct judgment , and vivid apprehension of truth ...
... nature , on the evidence of very many bright instances . The Wesleys had the advantage of this law ; and their mother , a woman of extraordinary intelligence and force of mind , of correct judgment , and vivid apprehension of truth ...
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... nature ; but it is not supernatural ; certainly it is not a religious event . Nor , to judge of them by their apparent characteristics , are many other inexplicable occurrences , similar to the Epworth c 3 THE TWO WESLEYS . 21.
... nature ; but it is not supernatural ; certainly it is not a religious event . Nor , to judge of them by their apparent characteristics , are many other inexplicable occurrences , similar to the Epworth c 3 THE TWO WESLEYS . 21.
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... nature which he embodied in the code of the Kingswood school : he seems to have ima- gined that little boys , as a species , are much like what , as he remembered , John Wesley was at twelve and thirteen , a prodigy of energy ...
... nature which he embodied in the code of the Kingswood school : he seems to have ima- gined that little boys , as a species , are much like what , as he remembered , John Wesley was at twelve and thirteen , a prodigy of energy ...
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... nature would have drawn him off from any commerce with it , even if the struc- ture of his mind had allowed him to tread at all on that path . But while thus officiating in a scholastic chair , that preparation was in progress which ...
... nature would have drawn him off from any commerce with it , even if the struc- ture of his mind had allowed him to tread at all on that path . But while thus officiating in a scholastic chair , that preparation was in progress which ...
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... natural temper , to a fixed seriousness , and a determi- nation to frame his course of life under the sovereign control of religious reasons and motives . The second stage was not passed through until he , although so much the firmer ...
... natural temper , to a fixed seriousness , and a determi- nation to frame his course of life under the sovereign control of religious reasons and motives . The second stage was not passed through until he , although so much the firmer ...
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