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... cross daily , and follow me . " LUKE , ix . 23 . SECOND EDITION , ENLARGED . LONDON : PRINTED FOR LONGMAN , BROWN , GREEN , AND LONGMANS , PATERNOSTER - ROW . 1850 . LONDON : SPOTTISWOODES and SHAW , New - street Square.
... cross daily , and follow me . " LUKE , ix . 23 . SECOND EDITION , ENLARGED . LONDON : PRINTED FOR LONGMAN , BROWN , GREEN , AND LONGMANS , PATERNOSTER - ROW . 1850 . LONDON : SPOTTISWOODES and SHAW , New - street Square.
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... daily cross " to bear : no im- patient efforts on our own part will avail to shake off the burden . Anger will not make others gentle ; discontent will not alter circumstances ; an unforgiving tem- per will not avert offences . There is ...
... daily cross " to bear : no im- patient efforts on our own part will avail to shake off the burden . Anger will not make others gentle ; discontent will not alter circumstances ; an unforgiving tem- per will not avert offences . There is ...
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... daily cross ; real happiness , on the contrary , depends alone on the temper of mind with which these circumstances ... every - day life may serve to show us which are the more tender , and which the diseased parts of our mental ...
... daily cross ; real happiness , on the contrary , depends alone on the temper of mind with which these circumstances ... every - day life may serve to show us which are the more tender , and which the diseased parts of our mental ...
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... daily cross , " instead of obeying the Saviour's injunction , to " take it up , " and seeking for experimental conviction of the wisdom that adapted a peculiar cross to their own peculiar case . We are , in general , too vague , too ...
... daily cross , " instead of obeying the Saviour's injunction , to " take it up , " and seeking for experimental conviction of the wisdom that adapted a peculiar cross to their own peculiar case . We are , in general , too vague , too ...
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... daily cross was imposed by the errors and selfishness of others , would learn , by careful self - examination , that the pain was in themselves , not in the instrument that inflicted it ; that even where present annoyance is ...
... daily cross was imposed by the errors and selfishness of others , would learn , by careful self - examination , that the pain was in themselves , not in the instrument that inflicted it ; that even where present annoyance is ...
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