A philosophical dictionary, from the Fr. [by J.G. Gurton].1824 |
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... eternal law of gravitation . " Lactantius and his gabbling associates would be perfectly astonished , when the true system of the world was thus unfolded to them . HEAVEN OF THE ANCIENTS . WERE a silkworm to denominate the small ...
... eternal law of gravitation . " Lactantius and his gabbling associates would be perfectly astonished , when the true system of the world was thus unfolded to them . HEAVEN OF THE ANCIENTS . WERE a silkworm to denominate the small ...
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... Eternal after death , we know not where . - CREECH . It was therefore true , that among the lowest classes of the people , some laughed at hell , and others trem- bled at it . Some regarded Cerberus , the Furies , and Pluto , as ...
... Eternal after death , we know not where . - CREECH . It was therefore true , that among the lowest classes of the people , some laughed at hell , and others trem- bled at it . Some regarded Cerberus , the Furies , and Pluto , as ...
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... eternal life , than to be cast with two feet into the inextinguishable gehenna , where the worm dies not , and where the fire is not quenched . " And if thine eye offend thee , pluck it out ; it is better to enter into the kingdom of ...
... eternal life , than to be cast with two feet into the inextinguishable gehenna , where the worm dies not , and where the fire is not quenched . " And if thine eye offend thee , pluck it out ; it is better to enter into the kingdom of ...
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... eternal punishments . It appeared to them absurd , to burn to all eternity an unfortunate man for stealing a goat . Virgil has finely said- · Sedit eternumque sedebit Infelix Theseus . Unhappy Theseus , doom'd for ever there , Is fix'd ...
... eternal punishments . It appeared to them absurd , to burn to all eternity an unfortunate man for stealing a goat . Virgil has finely said- · Sedit eternumque sedebit Infelix Theseus . Unhappy Theseus , doom'd for ever there , Is fix'd ...
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... eternal darkness , and broke asunder the indissoluble bars , and by an invincible virtue he visited those who lay in the depth of the darkness of guilt , in the shadow of the depth of sin . Jesus Christ appeared with St. Michael : he ...
... eternal darkness , and broke asunder the indissoluble bars , and by an invincible virtue he visited those who lay in the depth of the darkness of guilt , in the shadow of the depth of sin . Jesus Christ appeared with St. Michael : he ...
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Popular passages
Page 162 - And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.
Page 111 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell : but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Page 23 - And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off : it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched : 44 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Page 162 - Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not.
Page 22 - For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And shall burn unto the lowest hell, And shall consume the earth with her increase, And set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Page 22 - And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
Page 127 - We repeat there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.
Page 21 - They have moved me to Jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Page 244 - Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.