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Word: likens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...absorbing cares and duties of every-day life. It is so even in religion. Religion is everywhere seeking ingress to the heart of man, and the knowledge of Christ is ready for those who are willing to search. The door is open, but no one enters. We can liken to this our modern discoveries. The knowledge of electricity, of the telegraph and telephone has been knocking from time immemorial at the minds of men; but it was not until some great man threw open the doors of his intellect to these things, and gave them ingress, that they became known...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appleton Chapel. | 2/25/1887 | See Source »

...Liken them not to anything...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "A PAIR OF BLUE EYES." | 10/28/1881 | See Source »

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