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" A second class resembles a sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it nearly in the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class is like a jelly-bag which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and the dregs. The fourth... "
Lectures on the Philosophy of Arithmetic and the Adaptation of that Science ... - Page 384
by Uriah Parke - 1849 - 395 pages
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The Youth's magazine, or Evangelical miscellany

1846 - 612 pages
...and returns it nearly in the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class is like a jelly-bag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains...the refuse, and the dregs. The fourth class may be compated to the slave in the diamond mines in Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserves...
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The Parterre of fiction, poetry, history [&c.]., Volume 2

1835 - 428 pages
...returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class he likened to a jelly-bag — which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and the dregs. The fourth class, of which he trusted there were many among his auditors, he compared to the slaves in the diamond-mines...
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The Parterre, Volume 2

1835 - 428 pages
...returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class he likened to a jelly-bag — which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and the dregs. The fourth class, of which he trusted there were many among his auditors, he compared to the slaves in the diamond-mines...
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The Parterre, Volume 2

1835 - 428 pages
...it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class he likened to a jelly-bag—which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and the dregs. The fourth class, of which he trusted there were many among his auditors, he compared to the slaves in the diamond-mines...
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The Church of England magazine [afterw.] The Church of England ..., Volumes 4-5

1838 - 950 pages
...and returns it nearly in the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class is like a jelly-bag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains...may be compared to the slave in the diamond mines in Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserves only the pure gem. — Coleridge....
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Songs of the Press: And Other Poems Relative to the Art of Printers and ...

Charles Henry Timperley - 1845 - 234 pages
...everything, and returns it in the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class he likrm-d to a jelly-hag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and the dregs. The fourth class he compared to the diamond miners in Golconda, who, casting aside ail that is worthless, preserve only...
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The Astrologer and Oracle of Destiny, a Repository of the Wonderful in ...

1845 - 260 pages
...returns it in nearly the same slate, only a little dirtier. A third class he likened to a jellybag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and the dregs. The fourth class, of which he trusted there were many among his auditors, he compared to the slaves in the diamond mines...
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New York Illustrated Magazine Annual

1847 - 592 pages
...returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class he likened to a jellybag — which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and the dregs. The fourth class, of which he trusted there were many among his auditors, he compared to the slaves in the diamond-mines...
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The Mechanic's organ, or, Journal for young men and women [afterw.] Voice of ...

384 pages
...returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class he likened to a jelly-bag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and dregs. The fourth class, of which he trusted there were many among his auditors, he compared to the...
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The Christian Pioneer, Volume 1; Volume 9

1744 - 726 pages
...A third class he likens to a jelly bag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains all the refuse and the dregs, 'the fourth class may be compared to the slaves in the diamond mines of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserve only the...
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