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... course of our author's extended investigation , has escap- ed his notice . By some he will be blamed for placing the proofs of the authenticity of the sacred records before the ar- gument from prophecy and miracles : but we think he is ...
... course of our author's extended investigation , has escap- ed his notice . By some he will be blamed for placing the proofs of the authenticity of the sacred records before the ar- gument from prophecy and miracles : but we think he is ...
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... course of our strictures on the second volume , yet we cannot deny ourselves the plea- sure of laying before our readers the following highly beautiful and eloquent passage . Speaking of the analogy betwixt the difficulties offered in ...
... course of our strictures on the second volume , yet we cannot deny ourselves the plea- sure of laying before our readers the following highly beautiful and eloquent passage . Speaking of the analogy betwixt the difficulties offered in ...
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... course , - in which he skirted Mount Ithome , passed through a town sup- posed to stand on the site of Leuctra , had a rude rencontre with two Turkish soldiers , in which he displayed great spirit , and was introduced at Tripolizza ...
... course , - in which he skirted Mount Ithome , passed through a town sup- posed to stand on the site of Leuctra , had a rude rencontre with two Turkish soldiers , in which he displayed great spirit , and was introduced at Tripolizza ...
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... course the temple of Minerva Chalcioecos , since that temple was in the citadel ; and the fragments of the long wall which I had passed lower down , must have formed part of the quarter of the Cynosuri , since that quarter was to the ...
... course the temple of Minerva Chalcioecos , since that temple was in the citadel ; and the fragments of the long wall which I had passed lower down , must have formed part of the quarter of the Cynosuri , since that quarter was to the ...
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... course to enjoy the full delights of that political freedom , the extinction of which in Greece had made it so dreary a scene ; a scene which he expressly exhorts the advocates of despotic governments to visit , in order to witness the ...
... course to enjoy the full delights of that political freedom , the extinction of which in Greece had made it so dreary a scene ; a scene which he expressly exhorts the advocates of despotic governments to visit , in order to witness the ...
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Page 488 - God is no respecter of persons, but in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of Him.
Page 63 - Sermons shall be preached upon either of the following subjects, — to confirm and establish the Christian Faith, and to confute all heretics and schismatics — upon the divine authority of the Holy Scriptures — upon the authority of the writings of the Primitive Fathers, as to the faith and practice of the Primitive Church — upon the Divinity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ — upon the Divinity of the Holy Ghost — upon the Articles of the Christian Faith, as comprehended in the Apostles
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Page 626 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 625 - Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul : Yes, this was once Ambition's airy hall, The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul: Behold through each lack-lustre, eyeless hole, The gay recess of Wisdom and of Wit And Passion's host, that never brook'd control : Can all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit ? VII.
Page 410 - not to know any thing among them, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
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Page 194 - I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
Page 402 - PREDESTINATION to life is the everlasting purpose of God, whereby (before the foundations of the world were laid) he hath constantly decreed by his counsel, secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation, as vessels made to honour.
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