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No man saw the building of the New Jerusalem, the workmen crowded together, the unfinished walls and unpaved streets no man heard the clink of trowel and pickaxe it descended out of heaven from God.

John Robert Seeley

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John Robert Seeley
Age: 60 †
Born: 1834
Born: September 10
Died: 1895
Died: January 13
Essayist
Historian
London
England
Sir John Robert Seeley
J. R. Seeley
Together
Walls
Men
Saws
Streets
Wall
Descended
Creation
Workmen
Building
Unfinished
Heard
Jerusalem
Heaven
Crowded

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