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... hand you have holden over our sub- jects there . " " But , " says our author , " this authorita- tive address had no great influence upon the government and people of the colony . They were not strangers to their rights . The purchase ...
... hand you have holden over our sub- jects there . " " But , " says our author , " this authorita- tive address had no great influence upon the government and people of the colony . They were not strangers to their rights . The purchase ...
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... hand will in due time disinter the elements of their fame . It was for these and similar reasons , that we were pleased to see the life of Galileo in the Library of Useful Know- ledge , a work designed for the instruction of the great ...
... hand will in due time disinter the elements of their fame . It was for these and similar reasons , that we were pleased to see the life of Galileo in the Library of Useful Know- ledge , a work designed for the instruction of the great ...
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... hand , the author could not perhaps have introduced it more fitly under any other head , if he wished to mention it ; though after all it seems a singular thing to make its ap- pearance among manufactures . The author appears to ...
... hand , the author could not perhaps have introduced it more fitly under any other head , if he wished to mention it ; though after all it seems a singular thing to make its ap- pearance among manufactures . The author appears to ...
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... hand . The distinction seems to us to consist mainly in the direct , or transmitted and modified application of the ... hands or by comparatively few ; the author proceeds to the consideration of price . Having given the usual principles ...
... hand . The distinction seems to us to consist mainly in the direct , or transmitted and modified application of the ... hands or by comparatively few ; the author proceeds to the consideration of price . Having given the usual principles ...
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... hands of an enemy especially ) so fair a construction as Sir Henry thought in English . Yet as it was , it slept quietly among other sentences in this Albo , almost eight years , till by accident it fell into the hands of Jasper ...
... hands of an enemy especially ) so fair a construction as Sir Henry thought in English . Yet as it was , it slept quietly among other sentences in this Albo , almost eight years , till by accident it fell into the hands of Jasper ...
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Page 97 - Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Page 121 - There is a native tone of grandeur and authority in his teaching. He speaks as a being related to the whole human race. His mind never shrinks within the ordinary limits of human agency. A narrower sphere than the world never enters his thoughts. He speaks in a natural, spontaneous style of accomplishing the most arduous and important change in human affairs. This, unlabored manner of expressing great thoughts is particularly worthy of attention. You never hear from Jesus that swelling, pompous,...
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Page 12 - From which and many other similar phenomena of nature, such as the seven metals, etc., which it were tedious to enumerate, we gather that the number of planets is necessarily seven. " Moreover, the satellites are invisible to the naked eye, and therefore can have no influence on the earth, and therefore would be useless, and therefore do not exist.
Page 28 - This I saw, and suffered by it. But when I look back upon the ruin of families, the bloodshed, the decay of common honesty, and how the former piety and plain dealing of this now sinful nation is turned into cruelty and cunning, I praise God that he prevented me from being of that party which helped to bring in this Covenant, and those sad confusions that have followed it.
Page 31 - Mar-Prelate, but other venomous books daily printed and dispersed ; books that were so absurd and scurrilous, that the graver Divines disdained them an answer. And yet these were grown into high esteem with the common people, till Tom Nash appeared against them all, who was a man of a sharp wit, and the master of a scoffing, satirical, merry pen...
Page 32 - Christ to save them ? No, I will not be afraid to say to such a one, You err in your opinion ; but be of good comfort ; you have to do with a merciful God, who will make the best of that little which you hold well ; and not with a captious sophister, who gathereth the worst out of every thing in which you are mistaken.
Page 122 - A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON RAILROADS, AND INTERIOR COMMUNICATION IN GENERAL— containing an account of the performances of the different Locomotive Engines at, and subsequent to, the Liverpool Contest ; upwards of two hundred and sixty Experiments with Tables of the comparative value of Canals and Railroads, and the power of the present Locomotive Engines.
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