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...were addressing him personally. I see before me, he said, the self-satisfied man, and to him I want to speak. If men like Phillips Brooks, Professor Drummond and Mr. Donald fail to make the self-satisfied man feel his mistakes, if their arguments do not make him repent of his self satisfaction, then he certainly is beyond all hope of recovery. The man who is ashamed of his past misdeeds and repents, is more sure of forgiveness than the self-satisfied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appleton Chapel. | 5/22/1893 | See Source »

...Misanthrope detests the various falsehoods of this world, and, upon finding that the Auvergnat tells the truth, hastens to make the latter his friend. He soon begins to repent of his bargain, for his best laid plans are frustrated by the interference of his new friend. At last he finds it necessary to make the Auvergnat lie, in order to save the reputation of Madame Coquenard. Prunette undertakes to bring this about, and the scene in which she coquettes with the teller of unpleasant truths was especially well acted. The parts were very well sustained throughout, and everything went very...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The French Play. | 4/27/1888 | See Source »

...kleptomaniac who removed from Memorial on Tuesday evening, a silk umbrella, with a brown wood handle, and the owner's name carved on it, will repent and leave it at the Auditor's office, he will be forgiven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 1/21/1886 | See Source »

...their way to Lexington and Concord. We enter the old structure and see what an autograph album its interior has become. We immediately think of the quotation, "Fool's names," etc., but on finding the initials perhaps of our best friends or of some other great college men, we repent, and even add our own names before we leave. After leaving the powder-house, we stroll leisurely back to Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Some Walks About Cambridge. | 12/3/1884 | See Source »

Such is the strange delusion of an esteemed contemporary. If we have ever done aught to foster and encourage it, we repent of our action. How we can ever set our friends in the West to rights in this matter we do not know; but henceforward such will be our only aim and study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/20/1882 | See Source »

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