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... considered as a chaos of science , in a lucid and intelligible form . All this is done with industry and judgment . ' The Reviewer closes with the following observation on this work : ' It is , ' says he , ' calculated , we think , to ...
... considered as a chaos of science , in a lucid and intelligible form . All this is done with industry and judgment . ' The Reviewer closes with the following observation on this work : ' It is , ' says he , ' calculated , we think , to ...
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... considered , with certain qualifications hereafter mentioned , as integral and essential parts of the full course , and be carefully studied or used by him , in the modes therein prescribed . * FIFTHLY . No part of the Course is of more ...
... considered , with certain qualifications hereafter mentioned , as integral and essential parts of the full course , and be carefully studied or used by him , in the modes therein prescribed . * FIFTHLY . No part of the Course is of more ...
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... considered it , as of all others , the most noble . Those , among the ancients and moderns , who have paid a tribute of respect to this science , appear to have been at a loss to find in the language of eulogy and eloquence , terms ...
... considered it , as of all others , the most noble . Those , among the ancients and moderns , who have paid a tribute of respect to this science , appear to have been at a loss to find in the language of eulogy and eloquence , terms ...
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... considered as the period of the legal novitiate , since which time , although the science has been much simplified , it has also been much enlarged . And we are informed that , although Sir Edward Coke's university education was very ...
... considered as the period of the legal novitiate , since which time , although the science has been much simplified , it has also been much enlarged . And we are informed that , although Sir Edward Coke's university education was very ...
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... considered . ( Note 16. ) e . 21st . Grotius , on the Rights of War and Peace ; ( Note 17. ) [ The following select chapters only : ] 1st . " The Preliminary Discourse . ' 2d ' Of the Original Acquisition of a right over Persons ...
... considered . ( Note 16. ) e . 21st . Grotius , on the Rights of War and Peace ; ( Note 17. ) [ The following select chapters only : ] 1st . " The Preliminary Discourse . ' 2d ' Of the Original Acquisition of a right over Persons ...
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Page 70 - LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion : bless the LORD, O my soul. PSALM CIV. "DLESS the LORD, O my soul. O LORD *~* my God, thou art very great ; thou art clothed with honour and majesty : Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment : who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain...
Page 65 - I have carefully and regularly perused these Holy Scriptures, " and am of opinion, that the volume, independently of its divine " origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important " history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected " from all other books, in whatever language they may have been
Page 22 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 71 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created : and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Page 70 - They go up by the mountains ; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over ; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
Page 66 - The two parts of which the Scriptures consist, are connected by a chain of compositions, which bear no resemblance, in form or style, to any that can be produced from the stores of Grecian, Indian, Persian, or even Arabian learning. The antiquity of those compositions no man doubts; and the unstrained application of them to events long subsequent to their publication, is a solid ground of belief that they were genuine predictions, and consequently inspired.
Page 71 - I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live : I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
Page 24 - ... of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice, the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage : the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power; both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 24 - Wherefore, that here we may briefly end, of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 66 - The two parts of which the SCRIPTURES consist, are connected by a chain of compositions which bear no resemblance in form or style to any that can be produced from the stores of Grecian, Indian, Persian, or even Arabian learning. The antiquity of those compositions no man doubts, and the unrestrained application of them to events long subsequent to their publication, is a solid ground of belief that they were genuine predictions, and consequently inspired.