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... authority , and devoted to the search of truth . He pro- fesses to form his system from the Bible alone ; and his digest of Scriptural texts is certainly among the best that have appeared . But he is not always so happy in his ...
... authority , and devoted to the search of truth . He pro- fesses to form his system from the Bible alone ; and his digest of Scriptural texts is certainly among the best that have appeared . But he is not always so happy in his ...
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... authority of Johnson is against us on this point . But Johnson had studied the bad writers of the middle ages till he had become utterly insen- sible to the Augustan elegance , and was as ill qualified to judge between two Latin styles ...
... authority of Johnson is against us on this point . But Johnson had studied the bad writers of the middle ages till he had become utterly insen- sible to the Augustan elegance , and was as ill qualified to judge between two Latin styles ...
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... authority , a weak not say how much we admire his public con- preference of form to substance , a childish duct . But we cannot disguise from ourselves , passion for mummeries , an idolatrous venera . that a large portion of his ...
... authority , a weak not say how much we admire his public con- preference of form to substance , a childish duct . But we cannot disguise from ourselves , passion for mummeries , an idolatrous venera . that a large portion of his ...
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... authority - not even reserving to himself a veto on its enact- ments . And he did not require that the chief magistracy should be hereditary in his family . Thus far , we think , if the circumstances of the time , and the opportunities ...
... authority - not even reserving to himself a veto on its enact- ments . And he did not require that the chief magistracy should be hereditary in his family . Thus far , we think , if the circumstances of the time , and the opportunities ...
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... authority . For his death dissolved the whole frame of society . The army rose against the Parliament , the different corps of the army against each other . Sect raved against sect . Party plotted against party . The Presbyterians , in ...
... authority . For his death dissolved the whole frame of society . The army rose against the Parliament , the different corps of the army against each other . Sect raved against sect . Party plotted against party . The Presbyterians , in ...
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