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special need of other laborers since
There is special need of other laborers, since the number of ministers among the heathen is likely to be so small; but the need would exist, even though the number of min [Pg 117] isters were very much increased.
— from Thoughts on Missions by Sheldon Dibble

say nothing of one library strikes
The idea that there are as many books as that in the whole world, to say nothing of one library, strikes him as it would if Miss V. should tell him that she is the rightful Queen of England.)
— from The Librarian at Play by Edmund Lester Pearson

so near O our lives sweetness
The bloody proclamation to escape That follow'd me so near (O, our lives' sweetness!
— from King Lear by William Shakespeare

so neere O our liues sweetnesse
The bloody proclamation to escape That follow'd me so neere, (O our liues sweetnesse, That we the paine of death would hourely dye, Rather then die at once) taught me to shift Into a mad-mans rags, t' assume a semblance That very Dogges disdain'd: and in this habit Met I my Father with his bleeding Rings, Their precious Stones new lost: became his guide, Led him, begg'd for him, sau'd him from dispaire.
— from King Lear by William Shakespeare


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