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... religious squabbles of the times , the success of the work here was but temporary , and it has long been entirely out of print . It contained , however , a sufficient quantity of wit and wisdom , original and selected , to make its ...
... religious squabbles of the times , the success of the work here was but temporary , and it has long been entirely out of print . It contained , however , a sufficient quantity of wit and wisdom , original and selected , to make its ...
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... religious public would give it encouragement , but I am confident , that in England , the land of primogeniture and entailed estates , there is not an heir in the three king- doms who would not exert himself to insure its success . 66 ...
... religious public would give it encouragement , but I am confident , that in England , the land of primogeniture and entailed estates , there is not an heir in the three king- doms who would not exert himself to insure its success . 66 ...
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... religion from the other . " One of the earliest French princes being too indolent or too stupid to acquire his alphabet by the ordinary process , twenty - four servants were placed in attendance upon him , each with a huge letter ...
... religion from the other . " One of the earliest French princes being too indolent or too stupid to acquire his alphabet by the ordinary process , twenty - four servants were placed in attendance upon him , each with a huge letter ...
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... religion should have ever generated a sect , whose doc- trines are professedly anti - moral . Many , however , are still to be found , who , maintaining that the moral law is nothing to man , and that he is not bound to obey it , avow ...
... religion should have ever generated a sect , whose doc- trines are professedly anti - moral . Many , however , are still to be found , who , maintaining that the moral law is nothing to man , and that he is not bound to obey it , avow ...
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... religious points , ) with fire , pillory , imprisonment , and odium in this world ; while they carefully retain the parting curse of the inquisition , " Jam animam tuam tradi- mus Diabolo , " and consign them to eternal fire in the next ...
... religious points , ) with fire , pillory , imprisonment , and odium in this world ; while they carefully retain the parting curse of the inquisition , " Jam animam tuam tradi- mus Diabolo , " and consign them to eternal fire in the next ...
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