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The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ... - Page 173
by Alexander Chalmers - 1814
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The Works of Robt: Leighton ...

Robert Leighton - 1808 - 360 pages
...life, the din of politics, and the noise of folly: vanity and vexation flew away for a season ; care and disquietude came not near his dwelling. He arose,...pursue it ; and he can truly say, that food and rest Avere not preferred before it. Every psalm improved infinitely on his acquaintance with it, and no...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 pages
...life, the din of politics, and the noise of folly. Vanity and vexation flew away for a season ; cace and disquietude came not near his dwelling. He arose,...preferred before it. Every psalm improved infinitely upon his acquaintance with it, and no one gave him uneasiness but the last : ftv then he grieved that...
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The Arts and Sciences Abridged: With a Selection of Pieces, from Celebrated ...

Charles Peirce - 1811 - 266 pages
...life, the din of politics, and the noise of folly. Vanity and vexation flew away for a season ; care and disquietude came not near his dwelling. He arose,...say, that food and rest were not preferred before it. ?very psalm improved infinitely upon his acquaintance with it, and no one gave him uneasiness but the...
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A Selection from Bishop Horne's Commentary on the Psalms

George Horne, Lindley Murray - 1812 - 248 pages
...life, the din of politics, and the noise of folly: vanity and vexation flew away for a season, care and disquietude came not near his dwelling. He arose,...preferred before it. Every Psalm improved infinitely upon his acquaintance with it, and no one gave him uneasiness but the last; for then he grieved that...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 pages
...life, the din of politics, and the noise of folly. Vanity and vexation flew away for a, season; care and disquietude came not near his dwelling. He arose,...food and rest were not preferred before it. Every palm improved infmitely upon his acquaintance with it, and no one gave him uneasine? 5 but the last...
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Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most ..., Volume 1

Elegant extracts - 1812 - 312 pages
...vanity and vexation flew away for a season; care and disquietude came not near his dwelling. He rose, fresh as the morning, to his task ; the silence of...preferred before it. Every Psalm improved infinitely upon his acquaintance with it, and no one gave him uneasiness but the last; for then he grieved that...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register, Volume 2

1814 - 642 pages
...arose, fresh »s the morning, to his task ; the lilence of the night invited him to pursue it; anil he can truly say that food and rest were not preferred before it. Every psalm improved infinitely upon his acquaintance with it, and no one gave him uneasiness but the last ; for then he grieved that...
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The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...Uie noise of folly. Vanity aud vexation Jlew away for a season ; care and disquietude came not near dwelling. He arose, fresh as the morning, to his task; the silence of the uight invited him to pursue it ; aud he can truly say, that food and rest were not preferred before...
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Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 86, Part 1

1816 - 886 pages
...life, the din of politicks, and the noise of Folly : Vanity and Vexation flew away for a season, Care and Disquietude came not near his dwelling. He arose,...preferred before it. Every Psalm improved infinitely upon his acquaintance with it, and no one gave him uneasiness but the last ; for then he grieved that...
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Elegant extracts, Volume 55

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...vanity and vexation flew away for a season, care and disquietude came not near his dwelling. He rose, fresh as the morning, to his task ; the silence of...preferred before it. Every Psalm improved infinitely upon his acquaintance with it, and no one gave him uneasiness but the last ; for then he grieved that...
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