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Gizur the White, because thou overcamest Gunnar of Lithend; but
The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor Unknown
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Let merit be always approved here below; let every wickedness be immediately followed by deserved punishment; let the most perfect balance be ever held between the moral goodness and the welfare of men; where would then, O mortal, be the endless object of thy destination! where thy hope of immortality, and of a better and blissful futurity? where the strength and elasticity of thy mind, with which thou overcamest the greatest obstacles and adversities?
The German Pulpit, Being a Selection of Sermons by the Most Eminent Modern Divines of Germany. 1829
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