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... thought , this feeling in his own soul , coupled with his perfect and unspotted integrity , that they derive much of their precious value and efficacy . The charities of an unjust man , a man whose integrity and honor are sus- pected ...
... thought , this feeling in his own soul , coupled with his perfect and unspotted integrity , that they derive much of their precious value and efficacy . The charities of an unjust man , a man whose integrity and honor are sus- pected ...
Page xxiii
... thought it right at the same time to apprise his Lord- ship that the granting this favor might possibly draw on another request , namely , that he would permit an exact copy to be made of it , for the purpose of being introduced among ...
... thought it right at the same time to apprise his Lord- ship that the granting this favor might possibly draw on another request , namely , that he would permit an exact copy to be made of it , for the purpose of being introduced among ...
Page xxiii
... the copy , turning often to the original when I thought there might be some error , and there has hardly been an instance in which I did not find it exact . There are cases not a few in which you may think EDITORIAL PREFACE . ix.
... the copy , turning often to the original when I thought there might be some error , and there has hardly been an instance in which I did not find it exact . There are cases not a few in which you may think EDITORIAL PREFACE . ix.
Page xxiii
... thought it quite unnecessary to attend scrupulously to these . Occasionally , throughout the manuscript , an al- teration was found to have been made in a word after it was first written . For instance , the word such is usually written ...
... thought it quite unnecessary to attend scrupulously to these . Occasionally , throughout the manuscript , an al- teration was found to have been made in a word after it was first written . For instance , the word such is usually written ...
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... thought mar- velous by many . But to goe into a countrie they knew not ( but by hearsay ) , wher they must learne a new lan- guage , and get their livings they knew not how , it being a dear place , & subjecte to ye misseries of warr ...
... thought mar- velous by many . But to goe into a countrie they knew not ( but by hearsay ) , wher they must learne a new lan- guage , and get their livings they knew not how , it being a dear place , & subjecte to ye misseries of warr ...
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Page 16 - ... lived) as it seemed they were come into a new world. But these were not the things they much looked on, or long took up their thoughts; for they had other work in hand, and another kind of war to wage and maintain.
Page 164 - Concerning the killing of those poor Indians, of which we heard at first by report, and since by more certain relation. Oh, how happy a thing had it been, if you had converted some, before you had killed any; besides where blood is once begun to be shed, it is seldom staunched of a long time after.