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... principles of Natural Religion and sages of Holy Writ , may have sufficient attraction without the aid of fiction . The publishers have been encouraged to believe that such an undertaking would be thought seasonable by religious parents ...
... principles of Natural Religion and sages of Holy Writ , may have sufficient attraction without the aid of fiction . The publishers have been encouraged to believe that such an undertaking would be thought seasonable by religious parents ...
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... principle of action . Its universality gives us reason to suppose it a con- stituent part of human nature . The fact that it acts the most powerfully upon the loftiest and purest minds , suffi- ciently evinces that it is not an ignoble ...
... principle of action . Its universality gives us reason to suppose it a con- stituent part of human nature . The fact that it acts the most powerfully upon the loftiest and purest minds , suffi- ciently evinces that it is not an ignoble ...
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... principle in the living . The honors paid to the dead have in all ages acted as strong motives to their successors to ... principles , not previously recogniz- ed in practice , should be reduced to system , and fairly stat- ed and ...
... principle in the living . The honors paid to the dead have in all ages acted as strong motives to their successors to ... principles , not previously recogniz- ed in practice , should be reduced to system , and fairly stat- ed and ...
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... principles far in advance of his own age , but as assuming all that the Christian philosopher of the present day would desire the bigot to concede . " I am inclined to believe , that the intention of the sacred Scriptures is to give to ...
... principles far in advance of his own age , but as assuming all that the Christian philosopher of the present day would desire the bigot to concede . " I am inclined to believe , that the intention of the sacred Scriptures is to give to ...
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... principles involved in it , capable of present application , in the criticism of literary works ? Nothing is easier than to bestow epithets . The " golden little treatise " of Longinus , says Pearce , should be read and re - read . To ...
... principles involved in it , capable of present application , in the criticism of literary works ? Nothing is easier than to bestow epithets . The " golden little treatise " of Longinus , says Pearce , should be read and re - read . To ...
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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,...
Page 168 - Walker's Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names.
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.
Page 12 - There are seven windows given to animals in the domicile of the head, through which the air is admitted to the tabernacle of the body, to enlighten, to warm, and to nourish it...
Page 33 - A New Greek and English Lexicon ; principally on the Plan of the Greek and German Lexicon of Schneider...