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During the same passage across the Mediterranean in which I wrote "Lead kindly light," I also wrote the verses, which are found in the Lyra under the head of "Providences," beginning, "When I look back."
Apologia Pro Vita Sua John Henry Newman 1845
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He joined with three others in 1689 in a commendatory preface to Cotton Mather's Memorable Providences, a tract that is often, though I think wrongly, cited to show that Cotton Mather started the Salem troubles.
The Witch Trials Rathbone, Perry T. 1979
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Nevertheless the differences were also of great importance: the Age of Reason rejected the Special Providences or “interference” of
Dictionary of the History of Ideas MERLE CURTI 1968
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Life, and now under the Pressure of various afflicting Providences, I am persuaded (for I know the Man) he would rather embrace the Dung-hill, having Christ in his Heart, than give up his spiritual Possessions and
A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince, as Related by Himself James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw
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Cotton and Woolen factories; Markets thus afforded to the Farmer; South successful in securing the monopoly of the Cotton markets; Failure of Cotton cultivation in other countries; Diminished prices destroyed Household Manufacturing; Increasing demand for Cotton; Strange Providences; First efforts to extend Slavery; Indian lands acquired;
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott
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_Essay to do Good_, _Memorable Providences_, _Wonders of the Invisible
Woman's Life in Colonial Days Carl Holliday
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Special Providences may find in the untutored Indian a faith as firm as theirs, -- not sharply defined, or understood by the Indian himself, but inborn and ineradicable.
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Providences, he brings them to the Means of spiritual Information, gradually opens to their View the Light of his Truth, and gives them full Possession and Enjoyment of the inestimable Blessings of his
A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince, as Related by Himself James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw
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Memorable Providences relating to Witchcraft and Possession, 'which, together with Baxter's' Certainty of the World of
The Superstitions of Witchcraft Howard Williams
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Many, as they sat in that chamber of death, felt how mysterious are the Providences of God.
Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland Abigail Stanley Hanna
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