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... ........... 186 ... 187 The Vanity of Worldly Pleasures ... Dr. Moore The Shortness of Life .. 188 Adversity Cowley ..... Sotheby 189 189 Prospect of the Heavenly Jerusalem..Merrick Declining Age and Death ........... CONTENTS . vii.
... ........... 186 ... 187 The Vanity of Worldly Pleasures ... Dr. Moore The Shortness of Life .. 188 Adversity Cowley ..... Sotheby 189 189 Prospect of the Heavenly Jerusalem..Merrick Declining Age and Death ........... CONTENTS . vii.
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... pleasure and folly , and our manhood to pride and worldliness . The hoary head spends its hours in brooding over the possessions of the world , and begins not to live till the approach of death ; Then we bewail the shortness of that ...
... pleasure and folly , and our manhood to pride and worldliness . The hoary head spends its hours in brooding over the possessions of the world , and begins not to live till the approach of death ; Then we bewail the shortness of that ...
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... pleasure . We think of the happy hours we have spent in their society , hours never to return , with a feeling which nearly approaches to despair . That they are no more ; that they have ceased to think , to feel , to act , at least for ...
... pleasure . We think of the happy hours we have spent in their society , hours never to return , with a feeling which nearly approaches to despair . That they are no more ; that they have ceased to think , to feel , to act , at least for ...
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... pleasure was to end . But now truth , like a blazing star , passing through a midnight sky , darts over the mind , and but shows the way to that " darkness visible , " which no light can cheer . Dying wretch ! we say in imagination to ...
... pleasure was to end . But now truth , like a blazing star , passing through a midnight sky , darts over the mind , and but shows the way to that " darkness visible , " which no light can cheer . Dying wretch ! we say in imagination to ...
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... pleasure to think on the concern which she manifested for the prosperity of this Christian society -on the regularity with which , while she enjoyed a tolerable degree of health and strength , and even when her great age and increasing ...
... pleasure to think on the concern which she manifested for the prosperity of this Christian society -on the regularity with which , while she enjoyed a tolerable degree of health and strength , and even when her great age and increasing ...
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