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With so many evidences of the insolence of wealth, and the excesses of luxury, of impatience under the restraints of law, and mean revenge sanctified by the tilles [sic] of horror; with the oaths and execrations which have become almost our vernacular language, and the very general absence of a just Sense of responsibility in view of the peculiarities of our social system, we cannot dare to claim that we are a godly people.
Sermons, 1861-1865, 1862
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He difcovered the iflands, called An - tilles, penetrated even to the Gulph of Mexico, and failed along the coaft which extends from Panama to the mouth of the river Oronooko. —
The spirit of general history : in a series of lectures, from the eighth, to the eighteenth century : wherein is given a view of the progress of society, in manners and legislation during that period Thomson, George, Rev., fl. 1791-2 1792
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Il passa les dix derniers années de sa vie plongé dans les ténèbres, entouré des soins de ses deux tilles, à l'une desquelles il dictait le dernier volume de son _Histoire des Animaux sans Vertèbres_. "
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