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... suppose , that those who had re- nounced their belief of Christianity , after reading some conjectures concerning Etna , would have resumed their faith as soon as these Vesuvian facts were placed before them ? No , it was not so . It ...
... suppose , that those who had re- nounced their belief of Christianity , after reading some conjectures concerning Etna , would have resumed their faith as soon as these Vesuvian facts were placed before them ? No , it was not so . It ...
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... suppose them vastly our superiors , both in strength and stature . This kind of men , the heathen , in ages past , were in the habit of calling gods , after their death . The Chinese account speaks of ten dynasties of supe- rior beings ...
... suppose them vastly our superiors , both in strength and stature . This kind of men , the heathen , in ages past , were in the habit of calling gods , after their death . The Chinese account speaks of ten dynasties of supe- rior beings ...
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... suppose for one moment , that if the many octavo volumes which might be made , were really filled by the compilation of such items , and placed in his hands , that this would constitute the evi- dences of Christianity . Far from it ...
... suppose for one moment , that if the many octavo volumes which might be made , were really filled by the compilation of such items , and placed in his hands , that this would constitute the evi- dences of Christianity . Far from it ...
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... suppose that a rushing stream carried them far along in a rocky cave . If this learned man were asked to account for the forests that are found with an hundred feet of earth heaped over them ; or how it is , that all really learned ...
... suppose that a rushing stream carried them far along in a rocky cave . If this learned man were asked to account for the forests that are found with an hundred feet of earth heaped over them ; or how it is , that all really learned ...
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... suppose , that the wilfully ignorant have no desire for knowledge . This is a misunderstand- ing , against which we should be well guarded . The boy at college , who has passed off his weeks of 28 CAUSE AND CURE "Scoffers shall come,"
... suppose , that the wilfully ignorant have no desire for knowledge . This is a misunderstand- ing , against which we should be well guarded . The boy at college , who has passed off his weeks of 28 CAUSE AND CURE "Scoffers shall come,"
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Page 274 - And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Page 269 - For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
Page 294 - For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, And as a root out of a dry ground. He hath no form nor comeliness; And when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Page 272 - If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.
Page 273 - And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. 10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard ; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger : I am the LORD your God.
Page 51 - And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. 21 Then let them which are in Judea flee to the mountains...
Page 31 - Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
Page 271 - If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down : for that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin : wherein shall he sleep ? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.
Page 296 - And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence; neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Page 138 - Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.