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Coleridge, I have not one truly elevated character among my acquaintance: not one Christian: not one but undervalues Christianity—singly, what am I to do? Wesley (have you read his life?) was he not an elevated character? Wesley has said “Religion is not a solitary thing.” Alas! it necessarily is so with me, or next to solitary.
Coleridge, I have not one truly elevated character among my acquaintance: not one Christian: not one but undervalues Christianity—singly, what am I to do? Wesley (have you read his life?) was he not an elevated character? Wesley has said “Religion is not a solitary thing.” Alas! it necessarily is so with me, or next to solitary.
Approximate author period: c. 1804 AD · industrial
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- Charles Lamb
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- Approximate author period: c. 1804 AD · industrial
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 159 · printed citation: Charles Lamb (1775-1834) (Letter to S. T. Coleridge, Jan. 10, 1797). · compiler notes excluded
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