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... feel competent to express an opinion ; so far as it evinces a desire to deal fairly with facts which Christian apologists have often perverted , and a confidence , that the cause of Christianity must be the better for such fairness , it ...
... feel competent to express an opinion ; so far as it evinces a desire to deal fairly with facts which Christian apologists have often perverted , and a confidence , that the cause of Christianity must be the better for such fairness , it ...
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... feel that they are under the deepest obligation to Mr. Carlyle for the power with which he has brought the truth of this principle to their minds , for the proofs which he has given that , as much in the seventeenth century as in the ...
... feel that they are under the deepest obligation to Mr. Carlyle for the power with which he has brought the truth of this principle to their minds , for the proofs which he has given that , as much in the seventeenth century as in the ...
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... feel the con- nexion between the thoughts of other periods and countries and those which characterise our own times . The temptation to speak of Buddhism merely or chiefly in this connexion , is one which I was aware of when I entered ...
... feel the con- nexion between the thoughts of other periods and countries and those which characterise our own times . The temptation to speak of Buddhism merely or chiefly in this connexion , is one which I was aware of when I entered ...
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... feel the darkness . I believe most persons find it exceedingly difficult to read either of these books ; quite impossible , to remember them . I ought to have said , when speaking of Rammohun Roy , that his Tracts were written ...
... feel the darkness . I believe most persons find it exceedingly difficult to read either of these books ; quite impossible , to remember them . I ought to have said , when speaking of Rammohun Roy , that his Tracts were written ...
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... feeling that they might by possi- bility be inconsistent with the intentions of their Founder . On the contrary , the ... feel the influence of such pursuits , and would consider it their chief honour to direct them . But though periods ...
... feeling that they might by possi- bility be inconsistent with the intentions of their Founder . On the contrary , the ... feel the influence of such pursuits , and would consider it their chief honour to direct them . But though periods ...
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