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"ref": "1845 July 1, “Anglesey Horticultural Society”, in The North Wales Chronicle, volume 17, number 974, Bangor, Carnarvonshire: […] John Brown:",
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"text": "Spiritive as Scriptural mana is a fruit, under which excellent and concentrative typive man hath freely given to him to name or choose for himself the due ratify, this beautiful or bountiful gateway to the high lens in the ùòmanative heavens, renders all vulpinary sorrel a garnishment suitable to itself. […] When Christ took the conjunct humanlys, it was to tread or stamp upon them in the educative spirit of his presumptuory life; for in a distinct and atomised humiliation it was highly characteristic to make sovereign use of the vulgar or vulpinary title, as best becoming dececration in the conductuory; and it behoved to be put on in contrast this his lowest height, as the phaseos or Saviour in the redeemable humanly. […] True sorrow wraps itself close from unaniciated and untempered eyes, and great is the mastery of godliness in making no profession; always the seat of truth’s confessional, is secret and sacred; as God in subjecting evil agency works by vulpinary cause. […] If we weep by Babel’s streams, the sparkle of our chrystal tears, touch the beam which kindles from above; and the “curled darlings of the nations” may sigh in vain so to prefigure their vulpinary Shad-wrack; alas our shultifying times, do give place in a vague for ever.",
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"text": "Spiritive as Scriptural mana is a fruit, under which excellent and concentrative typive man hath freely given to him to name or choose for himself the due ratify, this beautiful or bountiful gateway to the high lens in the ùòmanative heavens, renders all vulpinary sorrel a garnishment suitable to itself. […] When Christ took the conjunct humanlys, it was to tread or stamp upon them in the educative spirit of his presumptuory life; for in a distinct and atomised humiliation it was highly characteristic to make sovereign use of the vulgar or vulpinary title, as best becoming dececration in the conductuory; and it behoved to be put on in contrast this his lowest height, as the phaseos or Saviour in the redeemable humanly. […] True sorrow wraps itself close from unaniciated and untempered eyes, and great is the mastery of godliness in making no profession; always the seat of truth’s confessional, is secret and sacred; as God in subjecting evil agency works by vulpinary cause. […] If we weep by Babel’s streams, the sparkle of our chrystal tears, touch the beam which kindles from above; and the “curled darlings of the nations” may sigh in vain so to prefigure their vulpinary Shad-wrack; alas our shultifying times, do give place in a vague for ever.",
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