Landscapes, churches, and moralities, by the author of 'Recreations of a country parson'.Longmans Green, 1874 - 320 pages |
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... Heads of Battering- Rams with some Thoughts touching the Re- vivification of Mummies . - Glasgow Down the Water . A Little Tour in May . Conclusion . CHANGED ASPECTS OF UNCHANGED TRUTHS : Eighteen SERMONS preached at the Crown 8vo . The ...
... Heads of Battering- Rams with some Thoughts touching the Re- vivification of Mummies . - Glasgow Down the Water . A Little Tour in May . Conclusion . CHANGED ASPECTS OF UNCHANGED TRUTHS : Eighteen SERMONS preached at the Crown 8vo . The ...
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... heads , the writer looked back , over many years , to a day when a Glasgow student was dying . He was the most eminent student of his time : Sir Daniel Sandford , the great professor of that period , was wont to point him out as the man ...
... heads , the writer looked back , over many years , to a day when a Glasgow student was dying . He was the most eminent student of his time : Sir Daniel Sandford , the great professor of that period , was wont to point him out as the man ...
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... head . By the time the bee got within a few inches of the head , it had escaped from the imperfect wrapping up ; and it proceeded angrily to buzz about the head , to the annoyance of the master and the delight of the scholars . And if ...
... head . By the time the bee got within a few inches of the head , it had escaped from the imperfect wrapping up ; and it proceeded angrily to buzz about the head , to the annoyance of the master and the delight of the scholars . And if ...
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... head in a vessel of water and lifted it up again , yet in the interval lived a long and anxious life . But there are ways of extinguishing consciousness without any pain . Opiates float you away . Even the coarse means of alcohol , as ...
... head in a vessel of water and lifted it up again , yet in the interval lived a long and anxious life . But there are ways of extinguishing consciousness without any pain . Opiates float you away . Even the coarse means of alcohol , as ...
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... head , being combined with homely looks , may leave their possessor unsought : slighted by a pack of vacuous blockheads . So with a poor preacher , with no influence to help him to a living : and the writer abides in a country in whose ...
... head , being combined with homely looks , may leave their possessor unsought : slighted by a pack of vacuous blockheads . So with a poor preacher , with no influence to help him to a living : and the writer abides in a country in whose ...
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