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... Scotland are continued to this day - viz . , beating the bounds or riding the marches , though their religious connection is apparently for- gotten . See ROGATION DAYS and PERAMBULATION . ASCETICISM . Among the Greeks , askesis denoted ...
... Scotland are continued to this day - viz . , beating the bounds or riding the marches , though their religious connection is apparently for- gotten . See ROGATION DAYS and PERAMBULATION . ASCETICISM . Among the Greeks , askesis denoted ...
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... Scotland consists of representatives , clerical and lay , from all the presby- teries of the church . The royal burghs of Scotland also return elders to the General A. of the Established Church , and each of the Scottish universities ...
... Scotland consists of representatives , clerical and lay , from all the presby- teries of the church . The royal burghs of Scotland also return elders to the General A. of the Established Church , and each of the Scottish universities ...
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... Scotland . Among the more distinguished of the divines were Usher , Saunderson , Reynolds , Brownrigg , Ward , Twisse , Lightfoot , Gataker , Burges , Goodwin , Calamy , and Nye ; of the laymen , Selden , Prideaux , the two Vanes ...
... Scotland . Among the more distinguished of the divines were Usher , Saunderson , Reynolds , Brownrigg , Ward , Twisse , Lightfoot , Gataker , Burges , Goodwin , Calamy , and Nye ; of the laymen , Selden , Prideaux , the two Vanes ...
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... Scotland , but it is nevertheless much used in the legal business of that country . ASSI'DIANS . See CHASIDIM . ASSIE'NTO , i . c . , treaty , a word specially applied to a compact between Spain and some foreign nation , according to ...
... Scotland , but it is nevertheless much used in the legal business of that country . ASSI'DIANS . See CHASIDIM . ASSIE'NTO , i . c . , treaty , a word specially applied to a compact between Spain and some foreign nation , according to ...
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... Scotland the technical term for the transference of certain property , such as property in copy- rights , patents , and registered vessels . A'SSIGNATS . After appropriating to national purposes the land belonging to the church , the ...
... Scotland the technical term for the transference of certain property , such as property in copy- rights , patents , and registered vessels . A'SSIGNATS . After appropriating to national purposes the land belonging to the church , the ...
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Page 82 - This is the catholic faith : which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be saved.
Page 492 - THE design was to trace the progress of a Poetical Genius, born in a rude age, from the first dawning of fancy and reason, till that period at which he may be supposed capable of appearing in the world as a Minstrel...
Page 342 - And ye are complete in Him, which is the head of all principality and power; in whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ; buried with Him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with Him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised Him from the dead.
Page 261 - An appendix to the first edition of the Morbid Anatomy of some of the most important parts of the human body, London: J.
Page 357 - An apology for the true Christian divinity as the same is held forth and preached by the people called in scorn Quakers...
Page 178 - To give validity to bills passed by the Reichsrath, the consent of both Chambers is required, as well as* the sanction of the head of the State. The members of both the Upper and the Lower House have the right to propose new laws on subjects within the competence of the Reichsrath ; but in all other matters the initiative belongs solely to the Government.
Page 218 - The Birs Nemroud is a mound of an oblong figure, the total circumference of which is 762 yards. At the eastern side it is cloven by a deep furrow, and is not more than fifty or sixty feet high ; but at the western...
Page 114 - ... elements of a perfect repentance in humanity for all the sin of man — a perfect sorrow — a perfect contrition — all the elements of such a repentance, and that in absolute perfection; all — excepting the personal consciousness of sin; and by that perfect response...
Page 372 - OR, LAST IN HELL. WE two are last in hell ; what may we feare To be tormented or kept pris'ners here ? Alas ! if kissing be of plagues the worst, We'll wish, in hell we had been last and first.
Page 114 - For that response has all the elements of a perfect repentance in humanity for all the sin of man, — a perfect sorrow — a perfect contrition — all the elements of such a repentance, and that in absolute perfection, all — excepting the personal consciousness of sin...