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father History a senator or patrician in ancient Rome Father 1. God, esp when considered as the first person of the Christian Trinity 2. any of the writers on Christian doctrine of the pre-Scholastic period 3. a title used for Christian priests How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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UP to the age of fourteen, when my father died, my childhood was the happiest period of my life. In ne house was a father weeping for the loss of his daughter, in another perhaps a mother trembling for the fate of her child; and instead of the blessings that had formerly been heaped on the Sultan's head, the air was now full of curses. SHORTLY after breakfast, at which he assisted with a highly tragical countenance, John sought his father where he sat, presumably in religious meditation, on the Sabbath mornings. |
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