The taste, a temperance tale [with other tales in prose and verse] by the author of 'The father's message'.1880 |
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The Taste, a Temperance Tale [With Other Tales in Prose and Verse] by the ... Myra Myra Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2016 |
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Side 130 - FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life...
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