The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volumen 3G. Bell and Sons, 1884 |
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Página 362 - Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
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