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John Ker. Father's house , a great paternal dwelling - His kindness felt through it all — and where brothers and sisters form one family , abiding under His eye and hand . Nor can I help thinking that those who have passed through earth ...
John Ker. Father's house , a great paternal dwelling - His kindness felt through it all — and where brothers and sisters form one family , abiding under His eye and hand . Nor can I help thinking that those who have passed through earth ...
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... felt my own mind filled with a kind of pity for the departed , that they enjoy no more the light and affection and hope of this world ; forgetting in our blindness the infinitely greater realities of truth and love on which those happy ...
... felt my own mind filled with a kind of pity for the departed , that they enjoy no more the light and affection and hope of this world ; forgetting in our blindness the infinitely greater realities of truth and love on which those happy ...
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... felt it so strongly , perhaps I have learned that little can be made of it , or perhaps , also , I have grown more apathetic , and call it wisdom . Still , I hope not the last , for I can sympathise with all such feelings , and know ...
... felt it so strongly , perhaps I have learned that little can be made of it , or perhaps , also , I have grown more apathetic , and call it wisdom . Still , I hope not the last , for I can sympathise with all such feelings , and know ...
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... felt it warmer . does much to reconcile one to fog and rain . I often thought of the cool breath of your Linn , as Mungo Park in Sahara did of Tweed . touched at Ghent , Brussels , Cologne , Bonn— sailed up the Rhine to Bingen ...
... felt it warmer . does much to reconcile one to fog and rain . I often thought of the cool breath of your Linn , as Mungo Park in Sahara did of Tweed . touched at Ghent , Brussels , Cologne , Bonn— sailed up the Rhine to Bingen ...
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... felt it painfully overpowering , and was glad to escape , like one that looks over the edge of a - precipice helped perhaps by the prevalent Cretinism , for mind seems often weakest where matter shows its grandest power . Then by Thun ...
... felt it painfully overpowering , and was glad to escape , like one that looks over the edge of a - precipice helped perhaps by the prevalent Cretinism , for mind seems often weakest where matter shows its grandest power . Then by Thun ...
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Page 94 - And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green, And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen? And did the Countenance Divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills, And was Jerusalem builded here Among these dark Satanic Mills? Bring me my Bow of burning gold, Bring me my arrows of desire ; Bring me my spear : O clouds, unfold ! Bring me my Chariot of fire ! I will not cease from Mental Fight, Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand, Till we have built Jerusalem...