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Pocket Encyclopedia: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Polite Literature - Page 123
by Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811
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The Sacred History of the World: Attempted to be Philosophically ..., Volume 3

Sharon Turner - 1838 - 460 pages
...afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or in doing good to our fellow-creatures, ia a kind and benevolent act of God. When they become unfit for these purposes, it is equally kind that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them. Death is that way."— Dr....
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The Sacred History of the World: As Displayed in the Creation and ..., Volume 3

Sharon Turner - 1838 - 482 pages
...immortals — a new member added to their happy society ! WK ARK SPIRITS. That bodies should be lent as while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or in doing good to our fellow-creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God. When they become unfit...
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The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral ...

Benjamin Franklin - 1839 - 246 pages
...immortals, a new member added to their happy society ? We are spirits. That bodies should be lent, while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God. When they become unfit for these purposes, and...
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The American Miscellany, Issue 1

1840 - 480 pages
...grieve, that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society ? " We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us, while...us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or in doing good to our ft llow creatures, is a kind and benevolent ect of God. When they become unfit...
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The works of Benjamin Franklin: with notes and a life of the ..., Volume 7

Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 604 pages
...we grieve, that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society ? We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us, while...us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or in doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God. When they become unfit...
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Sacred History of the World: Attempted to be ..., Volume 3, Issue 84

Sharon Turner - 1844 - 452 pages
...that a new child is born among the immortals— a new member added to their happy society ! WE ARs SPIRITS. That bodies should be lent us while they can afford u,s pleasure, asaist us in acquiring knowledge, or in doing good to our fellow-creatures, is a kind and benevolent...
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The Works of ... Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral, and ...

Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 320 pages
...among the immortals, a new memher added to their happy society ? We are spirits. That hodies should he lent us, while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and henevolent act of God. When they hecome unfit for these purposes, and...
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The Doctor, &c. ...

Robert Southey - 1847 - 468 pages
...we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society ? We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us, while...us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or in doing good to our fellow-creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God. When they become unfit...
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin

Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 534 pages
...God and nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life. .... We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us, while...us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or in doing good to our fellow-creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God. When they become unfit...
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The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral ...

Benjamin Franklin - 1848 - 312 pages
...we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society? We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us, while they can afford us pleasure, to assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow-creatures, is a kind and benevolent...
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