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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * The Interpreter answered, This parlour is the heart of a man that was never sanctified by the sweet grace of the gospel; the dust is his original sin and inward corruptions, that have defiled the whole man.
 * They, moreover, gave an instance of what they affirmed, and that was, he had stripped himself of his glory, that he might do this for the poor; and that they heard him say and affirm, "that he would not dwell in the mountain of Zion alone." They said, moreover, that he had made many pilgrims princes, though by nature they were beggars born, and their original had been the dunghill. [1 Sam 2:8; Ps. 113:7]
 * Thou neither seest thy original nor actual infirmities; but hast such an opinion of thyself, and of what thou dost, as plainly renders thee to be one that did never see a necessity of Christ's personal righteousness to justify thee before God.


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 * Il n’est pas commun, dans le Céleste Empire, que les veuves se remarient, — non qu’elles ne le désirent autant que leurs similaires des contrées occidentales, mais parce que ce désir trouve peu de co-partageants. Si Kin-Fo fit exception à la règle, c’est que Kin-Fo, on le sait, était un original.