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... Christianity , and the end of the human race to be at hand . Nevertheless , one may well believe that prophecy will be fulfilled in this great crisis , as it is in every great crisis , although one be unable to conceive by what method ...
... Christianity , and the end of the human race to be at hand . Nevertheless , one may well believe that prophecy will be fulfilled in this great crisis , as it is in every great crisis , although one be unable to conceive by what method ...
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... Christians the price of our assistance to the Mussulman , the struggle will not be over ; for Russia will still be what she has always been , and the northern Anarch will be checked , only to return to the contest with fiercer lust of ...
... Christians the price of our assistance to the Mussulman , the struggle will not be over ; for Russia will still be what she has always been , and the northern Anarch will be checked , only to return to the contest with fiercer lust of ...
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... Christian , was the glory of the eighteenth century . The moral scheme of Theodorus has now nearly vanished among us , at least as a confessed creed : and , in spite of the authority of Mr. Locke's great and good name , his metaphysical ...
... Christian , was the glory of the eighteenth century . The moral scheme of Theodorus has now nearly vanished among us , at least as a confessed creed : and , in spite of the authority of Mr. Locke's great and good name , his metaphysical ...
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... Christian era , and how fast was approaching that dark chaos of unbelief and unrighteousness , which Paul of Tarsus so analyses and describes in the first chapter of his Epistle to the Romans ; -when the old light was lost , the old ...
... Christian era , and how fast was approaching that dark chaos of unbelief and unrighteousness , which Paul of Tarsus so analyses and describes in the first chapter of his Epistle to the Romans ; -when the old light was lost , the old ...
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... Christian era . We know very little of those Sceptics , Cynics , Epicureans , Academics , Peripa- tetics , Stoics , of whom there has been so much talk ; except at second hand , through the Romans , from whom Stoicism in after ages ...
... Christian era . We know very little of those Sceptics , Cynics , Epicureans , Academics , Peripa- tetics , Stoics , of whom there has been so much talk ; except at second hand , through the Romans , from whom Stoicism in after ages ...
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Page 122 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last— far off— at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream ; but what am I ? An infant crying in the night ; An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry.
Page xxiii - I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
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