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... fact , good Christians in morals and principles , without fanaticism , patient , tolerant , laborious , and free from prejudices . With the exception of these men , who appear to be more numerous even in European Turkey than is ...
... fact , good Christians in morals and principles , without fanaticism , patient , tolerant , laborious , and free from prejudices . With the exception of these men , who appear to be more numerous even in European Turkey than is ...
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... fact is stated on the authority of ' Smith , the author of Carlisle's Embassies . " 66 and Edward Chamberlayne and Guy Miege , whose rivalry in the Present State of England , 1667 , the New Present State of England , 1691 , is well ...
... fact is stated on the authority of ' Smith , the author of Carlisle's Embassies . " 66 and Edward Chamberlayne and Guy Miege , whose rivalry in the Present State of England , 1667 , the New Present State of England , 1691 , is well ...
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... fact . The plant , however , that Ovid had in view was most probably the marigold ( Calendula officinalis ) , which grows naturally in Italy and many other parts of Europe , and was of old noted as a flower of the sun , and was called ...
... fact . The plant , however , that Ovid had in view was most probably the marigold ( Calendula officinalis ) , which grows naturally in Italy and many other parts of Europe , and was of old noted as a flower of the sun , and was called ...
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... fact , that language conveys no signification whatever . Not so . I am far from , and I have a holy horror of , scepticism , but I will illustrate the point which I seek to establish by citing an example . It . is commonly supposed that ...
... fact , that language conveys no signification whatever . Not so . I am far from , and I have a holy horror of , scepticism , but I will illustrate the point which I seek to establish by citing an example . It . is commonly supposed that ...
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... fact that their traditional pro- nunciation of the Latin of their Mass corresponds , so far as explained above , with the modern con- classical reformers have not stopped at the change tinental pronunciation . But , unfortunately , our ...
... fact that their traditional pro- nunciation of the Latin of their Mass corresponds , so far as explained above , with the modern con- classical reformers have not stopped at the change tinental pronunciation . But , unfortunately , our ...
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Page 101 - And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown ; but we an incorruptible.
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Page 75 - Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.
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