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... . That Man can see God • 2. Appeal to the Roman Catholic Clergy of Ireland . 3. Thoughts in Westminster School 4 . The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1717 • 435 · 437 441 445 I. HUGH LATIMER . CIRCA 1490-1555 . HUGH LATIMER sprang xii CONTENTS .
... . That Man can see God • 2. Appeal to the Roman Catholic Clergy of Ireland . 3. Thoughts in Westminster School 4 . The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1717 • 435 · 437 441 445 I. HUGH LATIMER . CIRCA 1490-1555 . HUGH LATIMER sprang xii CONTENTS .
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... thoughts , and events of that period , it would be his Sermons , which should be studied by all who wish to become ... thought or tender feeling . 1. A Yeoman's Estate . My father was a yeoman , and had no lands of his own , only he ...
... thoughts , and events of that period , it would be his Sermons , which should be studied by all who wish to become ... thought or tender feeling . 1. A Yeoman's Estate . My father was a yeoman , and had no lands of his own , only he ...
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... thought it some touch to his great esteemed valour , to ride behind me so many hours , got up ahead my ship ; which my lord Thomas perceiving , headed him again , myself being but a quarter of an hour absent . At my return , finding ...
... thought it some touch to his great esteemed valour , to ride behind me so many hours , got up ahead my ship ; which my lord Thomas perceiving , headed him again , myself being but a quarter of an hour absent . At my return , finding ...
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... thought sufficient to conquer them , can be debarred all entrance by the natural difficulty of the ways . One passage or other is commonly left unguarded ; if all be defended , then must the forces of the country be distracted , and yet ...
... thought sufficient to conquer them , can be debarred all entrance by the natural difficulty of the ways . One passage or other is commonly left unguarded ; if all be defended , then must the forces of the country be distracted , and yet ...
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... thought impregnable ; but how seldom ( if ever ) have they been attempted in vain . Xerxes , and long after him the Romans , forced the entrance of Thermopyla ; Cyrus the younger , and after him Alexander , found the gates of Cilicia ...
... thought impregnable ; but how seldom ( if ever ) have they been attempted in vain . Xerxes , and long after him the Romans , forced the entrance of Thermopyla ; Cyrus the younger , and after him Alexander , found the gates of Cilicia ...
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Page 198 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
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Page 53 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all. than such an opinion as is unworthy of Him; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely: and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose: