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“The imperfect offices of prayer and praise.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Excursion. Book i.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f719f13e6aa715a8b3057824fabc2d28ac3d1ee902f47ef9e023a14790eb8d0a
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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