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... need , was held in the beginning of this century , occasioned by the dazzling reputation of such men as Bentley and Hare , very naturally seduced a young enterprising scholar into an attempt of this nature . How far he proceeded in this ...
... need , was held in the beginning of this century , occasioned by the dazzling reputation of such men as Bentley and Hare , very naturally seduced a young enterprising scholar into an attempt of this nature . How far he proceeded in this ...
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... needs have innumerable enemies . And as all could not receive , nor the greater part deserve , his notice , he determined to select a few of the more respectable , out of the gross body of assailants , and to quit his hands of them at ...
... needs have innumerable enemies . And as all could not receive , nor the greater part deserve , his notice , he determined to select a few of the more respectable , out of the gross body of assailants , and to quit his hands of them at ...
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... needs be witty , take once more your example from the fine author of ' The Difficulties and Discouragements , ' and ... need you , when it is but showing them , with overcharged and dis- torted features , to laugh at your ease ? Call ...
... needs be witty , take once more your example from the fine author of ' The Difficulties and Discouragements , ' and ... need you , when it is but showing them , with overcharged and dis- torted features , to laugh at your ease ? Call ...
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... needs esteem it the measure for the present times . For , as a great ancient well observes , " It is one thing to speak of truth , and another to hear truth speak of her- self . " It was christian truth and charity , the truth and ...
... needs esteem it the measure for the present times . For , as a great ancient well observes , " It is one thing to speak of truth , and another to hear truth speak of her- self . " It was christian truth and charity , the truth and ...
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... needs bear a sacred , that is , a public character , even on your own principles . To abuse them , there- fore , as a body , is insulting the state which protects them . It is highly injurious likewise , because a body - politic cannot ...
... needs bear a sacred , that is , a public character , even on your own principles . To abuse them , there- fore , as a body , is insulting the state which protects them . It is highly injurious likewise , because a body - politic cannot ...
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Page 341 - That Wisdom infinite must form the best, Where all must full or not coherent be, And all that rises, rise in due degree ; Then, in the scale of reasoning life, 'tis plain, There must be, somewhere, such a rank as Man: And all the question (wrangle e'er so long) Is only this, if God has placed him wrong?
Page 429 - Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. 32 IT And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.
Page 629 - ... true eloquence I find to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth; and that whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words, by what I can express, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command, and in well-ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places.
Page 429 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20. For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21. (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.) 22.
Page 411 - Who changed the Truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, Who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Page 392 - Stand by thyself, come not near me, for I am holier than thou.
Page 411 - Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves...
Page 313 - Nilotici calami inscriptam non spreveris inspicere. figuras fortunasque hominum in alias imagines conversas et in se rursum mutuo nexu refectas, ut mireris, exordior.
Page 511 - Nam Pythagoras, qui censuit animum esse per naturam rerum omnem intentum et commeantem ex quo nostri animi carperentur, non vidit distractione humanorum animorum discerpi et lacerari deum, et cum miseri animi essent, quod plerisque contingeret, turn dei partem esse miseram, 28 quod fieri non potest.