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Page 58
... present ease , and restore life to those who might meet with the fame mif- fortune . The method he prefcribes is phlebotomy , expofing the bodies to a fresh air , the ufe of cold water , the infufflation of air into the lungs . He ...
... present ease , and restore life to those who might meet with the fame mif- fortune . The method he prefcribes is phlebotomy , expofing the bodies to a fresh air , the ufe of cold water , the infufflation of air into the lungs . He ...
Page 83
... present age , as a philofopher and politician , this fubject was introduced ; and his fentiments and wishes agreeing with mine , fome perfons of our acquaintance were applied to , who were found fo well - difpofed , that several ...
... present age , as a philofopher and politician , this fubject was introduced ; and his fentiments and wishes agreeing with mine , fome perfons of our acquaintance were applied to , who were found fo well - difpofed , that several ...
Page 97
... present our reader with a part of the firft Sermon on Revenge " RECOMPENCE NO MAN EVIL FOR EVIL , ROMANS xii . 17 . " There is not a chapter in the Bible more full of fentiment , than this chapter ; nor any fentiment more full of fenfe ...
... present our reader with a part of the firft Sermon on Revenge " RECOMPENCE NO MAN EVIL FOR EVIL , ROMANS xii . 17 . " There is not a chapter in the Bible more full of fentiment , than this chapter ; nor any fentiment more full of fenfe ...
Page 177
... present is abused by you all ; in short , I am a farmer . 66 By your news - papers we are told , that God had fent a very fhort harveft to fome other countries of Europe . I thought this might be in favour of Old England ; and that now ...
... present is abused by you all ; in short , I am a farmer . 66 By your news - papers we are told , that God had fent a very fhort harveft to fome other countries of Europe . I thought this might be in favour of Old England ; and that now ...
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... present of human learning not as valuable in itself , but as fubfervient and fubfidiary to fomething of higher importance ; as preparing the way and opening the mind for the reception of greater truths , as tending to form that great ...
... present of human learning not as valuable in itself , but as fubfervient and fubfidiary to fomething of higher importance ; as preparing the way and opening the mind for the reception of greater truths , as tending to form that great ...
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Page 344 - The Lord looketh from heaven ; he beholdeth all the sons of men. From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.
Page 140 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is bless'd in what it takes and what it gives ; The joy unequall'd if its end it gain, And, if it lose, attended with no pain ; Without satiety...
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Page 87 - Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Page 140 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.
Page 176 - And Abraham arose and met him, and said unto him, Turn in, I pray thee, and wash thy feet, and tarry all night, and thou shalt arise early on the morrow, and go on thy way.
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Page 177 - And Abraham answered and said, Lord, he would not worship thee, neither would he call upon thy name ; therefore have I driven him out from before my face into the wilderness.
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