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• The last lines are so badly mutilated that no efforts have as yet availed to make their sense anything but obscure, and so it must remain, unless new copies come to light. —  Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria
• At that time the Methodists were an obscure, a despised, an ill-treated people; nor had their church the security of law for a single chapel, parsonage, or acre of land.... Now the political condition and relations of the Methodist connexion are pleasingly changed. —  The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada
• Now the sacred Koran being frequently obscure, and few at this day being found capable of explaining it, he determined to read all inspired works; that the word of God might furnish a commentary on itself, and what is concisely expressed in one book might be elucidated by a reference to others; the abridged being the more diffuse. —  Mystics and Saints of Islam
• To be poor and obscure is also the ordinance of God; but the dishonesty and discontent which are often seen in the poor is from Satan. —  Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VII (of 8)
• We were once as obscure, as debased, as ignorant, as barbaric, as the African is now. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators

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