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  • So says the Tract itself; and in the first of two pieces of verse prefixed to it by an admirer, and entitled “To His worthy Friend the Author, upon his Booke,” there occur these lines: ” “The hell-hatched doctrine of th 'immortal soul

    The Life of John Milton Masson, David, 1822-1907 1859

  • JOHN ANDERSON, indweller in Glasgow, in the year 1684, was amongst others prevailed upon to take that hell-hatched test upon his knee.

    Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies John Howie 1764

  • The end of the years of peril; the end of that fear gnawing always at his heart that she might never live to come out into the sunlight again; the end of this dual life he led; the return to a normal existence where surroundings like the present, where the dens and dives of the underworld, the secret rookeries nursing their hell-hatched crimes, the taint and smell of evil, and the reek of soul-filth would be hereafter no more than a memory!

    The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale 1909

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