The Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Addison, Volume 3D. A. Talboys, 1830 |
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... by all the ancient Christian authors , did it not appear , from the autho- rities above cited , that this was a fact confessed by heathens themselves . V. We now see what a multitude of pagan testi- 12 THE EVIDENCES OF.
... by all the ancient Christian authors , did it not appear , from the autho- rities above cited , that this was a fact confessed by heathens themselves . V. We now see what a multitude of pagan testi- 12 THE EVIDENCES OF.
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... appears from their quota- tions out of the Evangelists , for the confirmation of any doctrine or account of our blessed Saviour . Nay , a learned man of our nation , who examined the writings of our most ancient Fathers in another view ...
... appears from their quota- tions out of the Evangelists , for the confirmation of any doctrine or account of our blessed Saviour . Nay , a learned man of our nation , who examined the writings of our most ancient Fathers in another view ...
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... appear invalid , and their inquiries ineffectual . II . As to this point , we must consider , that many thousands had seen the transactions of our Saviour in Judæa , and that many hundred thousands had re- ceived an account of them from ...
... appear invalid , and their inquiries ineffectual . II . As to this point , we must consider , that many thousands had seen the transactions of our Saviour in Judæa , and that many hundred thousands had re- ceived an account of them from ...
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... appears in the whole course of his life and writings ; nay , he had often been put to the torture , and had undergone trials worse than death . As he conversed with the most eminent Christians of his time in Egypt and in the east ...
... appears in the whole course of his life and writings ; nay , he had often been put to the torture , and had undergone trials worse than death . As he conversed with the most eminent Christians of his time in Egypt and in the east ...
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... appear in the prosecution of this discourse , and may be gathered from the following considerations . V. Had these writings differed from the sermons of the first planters of Christianity , either in history or doctrine , there is no ...
... appear in the prosecution of this discourse , and may be gathered from the following considerations . V. Had these writings differed from the sermons of the first planters of Christianity , either in history or doctrine , there is no ...
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Page 43 - Whosoever . therefore shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father which is in heaven.
Page 57 - Statesman \ yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, ' In action faithful, and in honour clear ; 'Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, 'Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 'Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, 'And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
Page 93 - The man resolved and steady to his trust, Inflexible to ill, and obstinately just, May the rude rabble's insolence despise, Their senseless clamours and tumultuous cries , The tyrant's fierceness he beguiles, And the stern brow, and the harsh voice defies, And with superior greatness smiles.
Page 56 - Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears, The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years ! To gain Pescennius one employs his schemes, One grasps a Cecrops in ecstatic dreams.
Page 207 - You have yet an opportunity, by God's blessing, to secure to you and your posterity the quiet enjoyment of your religion and liberties, if you are not wanting to yourselves, but will exert the ancient vigour of the English nation : but I tell you plainly, my opinion is, if you do not lay hold on this occasion, you have no reason to hope for another.
Page 170 - For they that led us away captive, required of us then a song, and melody in our heaviness : Sing us one of the songs of Sion. 4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?
Page 53 - ... valescat, sic ego nunc, quoniam haec ratio plerumque videtur tristior esse quibus non est tractata, retroque volgus abhorret ab hac, volui tibi suaviloquenti carminé Pierio rationem exponere nostram et quasi musaeo dulci contingere melle...
Page 170 - ... those of their country, in the several marks of sorrow they have set on this figure. The Psalmist describes the Jews lamenting their captivity in the same pensive posture. ' By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Sion...
Page 55 - Some felt the silent stroke of mould'ring age, Some hostile fury, some religious rage. Barbarian blindness, Christian zeal conspire, And Papal piety, and Gothic fire.
Page 70 - ... particulars of an emperor's story into the several years of his reign : or, where they do it, they often differ in their several periods. Here, therefore, it is much safer to quote a medal than an author, for in this case you do not appeal to a Suetonius or a Lainpridius, but to the emperor himself, or to the whole body of a Roman senate. Besides that, a coin is in no danger of having its characters altered by copiers and transcribers.