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... Christian principles are their worst doctrines , how greatly inferior the noblest conjectures of their most highly ... Christianity , those at least which are collateral , are more favourably received when thrown in incidentally , when ...
... Christian principles are their worst doctrines , how greatly inferior the noblest conjectures of their most highly ... Christianity , those at least which are collateral , are more favourably received when thrown in incidentally , when ...
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... Christ , and consequently was contemporary with Alex- ander the Great . This date , which Gassendi says he found in a manuscript , was restored by Isaac Casaubon , the words xal eixoσTs having been omit- ted by transcribers and printers ...
... Christ , and consequently was contemporary with Alex- ander the Great . This date , which Gassendi says he found in a manuscript , was restored by Isaac Casaubon , the words xal eixoσTs having been omit- ted by transcribers and printers ...
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... Christian metaphysicians find , in settling the limits between free - will and necessity . The question is not , and probably never will be set at rest .. The insu perable difficulty seems to be this . If we go the whole length of the ...
... Christian metaphysicians find , in settling the limits between free - will and necessity . The question is not , and probably never will be set at rest .. The insu perable difficulty seems to be this . If we go the whole length of the ...
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... CHRIST , et pour l'avoir adorée par une extravagance de zèle pour sa doctrine . Les Aëtiens furent ex- communiéz par l'Eglise , et par les Arriens même , dont ils éstoient sortis : parce qu'ils donnoient à leurs 54 ON THE ARISTOTELIAN ...
... CHRIST , et pour l'avoir adorée par une extravagance de zèle pour sa doctrine . Les Aëtiens furent ex- communiéz par l'Eglise , et par les Arriens même , dont ils éstoient sortis : parce qu'ils donnoient à leurs 54 ON THE ARISTOTELIAN ...
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... CHRIST , et pour l'avoir adorée par une extravagance de zèle pour sa doctrine . Les Aëtiens furent ex- communiéz par l'Eglise , et par les Arriens même , dont ils éstoient sortis : parce qu'ils donnoient à leurs 54 ON THE ARISTOTELIAN ...
... CHRIST , et pour l'avoir adorée par une extravagance de zèle pour sa doctrine . Les Aëtiens furent ex- communiéz par l'Eglise , et par les Arriens même , dont ils éstoient sortis : parce qu'ils donnoient à leurs 54 ON THE ARISTOTELIAN ...
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Page 303 - And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, and was transfigured before them : and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
Page 87 - THAMMUZ came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day ; While smooth Adonis from his native rock 450 Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
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Page 293 - A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
Page 87 - Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The Lord seeth us not ; the Lord hath forsaken the earth.
Page 61 - Will lug your priests and servants from your sides, Pluck stout men's pillows from below their heads...
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Page 279 - Ut pictura poesis : erit quae si propius stes Te capiat magis, et quaedam si longius abstes.
Page 232 - THUS saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: Where is the house that ye build unto me? And where is the place of my rest ? For all those things hath mine hand made, And all those things have been, saith the Lord: But to this man will I look, Even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, And trembleth at my word.