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... history , for it involves a progressive change extending over three or more centuries , and is marked by a series not only of moral and intellectual , but of political revolutions . It embraces a multitude of events , and presents to us ...
... history , for it involves a progressive change extending over three or more centuries , and is marked by a series not only of moral and intellectual , but of political revolutions . It embraces a multitude of events , and presents to us ...
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... history of the great trans- formation of opinion of which it treats , It may be well to observe , however , that the ... historical testimony to the miracles by which it claims on its first pro- mulgation to have been accompanied . The ...
... history of the great trans- formation of opinion of which it treats , It may be well to observe , however , that the ... historical testimony to the miracles by which it claims on its first pro- mulgation to have been accompanied . The ...
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... history , productive of thou- sands , nay of millions , of conversions . On this subject . I have been naturally led to touch , and would willingly have expatiated , but my limits and the scope of my Lectures did not allow of my ...
... history , productive of thou- sands , nay of millions , of conversions . On this subject . I have been naturally led to touch , and would willingly have expatiated , but my limits and the scope of my Lectures did not allow of my ...
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... History of the Destruction of Paganism in the West , ' published about thirty years . ago , is still , I believe , the best and completest work we possess upon the later phases of the great trans- formation of religion ; but the subject ...
... History of the Destruction of Paganism in the West , ' published about thirty years . ago , is still , I believe , the best and completest work we possess upon the later phases of the great trans- formation of religion ; but the subject ...
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... history , suggests , as it seems to me , more directly the fundamental question between God's revelation and human ... historical rather than critical ; we neither go to them to confirm our own faith , nor of course do we require their ...
... history , suggests , as it seems to me , more directly the fundamental question between God's revelation and human ... historical rather than critical ; we neither go to them to confirm our own faith , nor of course do we require their ...
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