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... opinions proposed be such as men are wont to entertain through credu- lous simplicity , or such as , though obscure in them- selves , are yet built on solid and immoveable founda- tions , I consider them in a very different light . This ...
... opinions proposed be such as men are wont to entertain through credu- lous simplicity , or such as , though obscure in them- selves , are yet built on solid and immoveable founda- tions , I consider them in a very different light . This ...
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... opinions with associates so truly contemptible . Those therefore who only counterfeit these prin- ciples , are extremely unhappy in putting a constraint on their natural disposition , in order to render them- selves the most impertinent ...
... opinions with associates so truly contemptible . Those therefore who only counterfeit these prin- ciples , are extremely unhappy in putting a constraint on their natural disposition , in order to render them- selves the most impertinent ...
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... opinion which men naturally entertain of themselves . Others , well knowing the unhappy effects of his baseness and misery , have treated with the greatest ridicule those sentiments of grandeur which are no less natural to men . Our ...
... opinion which men naturally entertain of themselves . Others , well knowing the unhappy effects of his baseness and misery , have treated with the greatest ridicule those sentiments of grandeur which are no less natural to men . Our ...
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... opinion : but in order to find out which opinion is true , we have only to examine what has always been held by it ; for it is certain that what is true has never ceased to have a place in it , while nothing that is false has been ...
... opinion : but in order to find out which opinion is true , we have only to examine what has always been held by it ; for it is certain that what is true has never ceased to have a place in it , while nothing that is false has been ...
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... opinion we entertain of him , it is impossible to deny that he had a most elevated and superior mind , which he evinced at a very early age , before the doctors of the law ; yet instead of cultivating his talents by study , and the ...
... opinion we entertain of him , it is impossible to deny that he had a most elevated and superior mind , which he evinced at a very early age , before the doctors of the law ; yet instead of cultivating his talents by study , and the ...
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Page 99 - I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing : therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live...
Page 137 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Page 164 - Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.
Page 279 - And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
Page 139 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Page 58 - Who is wise, and he shall understand these things ? prudent, and he shall know them ? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them : but the transgressors shall fall therein.
Page 152 - I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
Page 99 - And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
Page 99 - And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.
Page 283 - ... it is God who worketh in us, both to will and to do of his good pleasure.