The Town: Its Memorable Characters and EventsOxford University Press, 1907 - 527 pages |
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Page 64
... spirit of Christianity , which , at the same time , they so much insisted on . The perplexity in after life , when reading of poor philosophers and rich vicious men , was in proportion ; or rather virtue and mere worldly success became ...
... spirit of Christianity , which , at the same time , they so much insisted on . The perplexity in after life , when reading of poor philosophers and rich vicious men , was in proportion ; or rather virtue and mere worldly success became ...
Page 76
... spirit in which these things have been done , thereader may judge from a letter written by an applicant to one of the most respectable names in the college list . His object was to get the illegitimate coat of a female friend changed to ...
... spirit in which these things have been done , thereader may judge from a letter written by an applicant to one of the most respectable names in the college list . His object was to get the illegitimate coat of a female friend changed to ...
Page 237
... spirit of the nation , which was now comparatively silent , for fear of being confounded with disaffection to the church . For an account of what took place upon this corrup- tion of church and bench , and neutralization of the popular ...
... spirit of the nation , which was now comparatively silent , for fear of being confounded with disaffection to the church . For an account of what took place upon this corrup- tion of church and bench , and neutralization of the popular ...
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