I had intended yesterday to have walked out, but I have been again
disappointed.
Five and eight makes thirteen; five from eight leaves three.
If he goes to Saratoga next week, it will make eight times that he
has visited that renowned watering place.
I could not convince him, that a forgiving disposition was nobler
than a revengeful one. I consider the first, one of the brightest
virtues that ever was or can be possessed by man.
The college consists of one great, and several smaller edifices.
He would not believe, that honesty was the best policy.
The edifice was erected sooner than I expected it to have been.
Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life;
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
If a man have a hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth
he not leave the ninety and nine, &c.?
He might have completed his task sooner, but he could not do it
better.
The most ignorant and the most savage tribes of men, when they have
looked round on the earth, and on the heavens, could not avoid
ascribing their origin to some invisible, designing cause, and felt
a propensity to adore their Creator.
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