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When I am in a serious Humour, I very often walk by my self in Westminster Abby; where the Gloominess of the Place, and the Use to which it is applied, with the Solemnity of the Building, and the Condition of the People who lye in it, are apt to fill the Mind with a [...]

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I know but one way of fortifying my Soul against these gloomy Presages and Terrors of Mind, and that is, by securing to my self the Friendship and Protection of that Being, who disposes of Events, and governs Futurity.  He sees, at one View, the whole Thread of my Existence, not only that Part of [...]

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