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... living wants there are in us , and all men , which it meets and satisfies ? It might have been desirable that I should have appended to this , and the two following Lectures , some illustrative notes : I had intended to do so , but I ...
... living wants there are in us , and all men , which it meets and satisfies ? It might have been desirable that I should have appended to this , and the two following Lectures , some illustrative notes : I had intended to do so , but I ...
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... living not only among Sabean worshippers but amongst Christians and Jews might advance his cause by professing his sympathy with much of the teaching in their holy books ; by saying , that he came to restore their systems to purity ...
... living not only among Sabean worshippers but amongst Christians and Jews might advance his cause by professing his sympathy with much of the teaching in their holy books ; by saying , that he came to restore their systems to purity ...
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... living power , to mix them with his own notions , one cannot be- lieve that he ever would have moved the heart of a single nation or of a single man . A teacher may , indeed , exercise a much greater power by reviving what is old , than ...
... living power , to mix them with his own notions , one cannot be- lieve that he ever would have moved the heart of a single nation or of a single man . A teacher may , indeed , exercise a much greater power by reviving what is old , than ...
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... living and Eternal God . The theological transcendant prin- ciple is just the one which has stood its ground , which has re - appeared age after age , which the most ignorant warriors felt was true and mighty for them , for which no ...
... living and Eternal God . The theological transcendant prin- ciple is just the one which has stood its ground , which has re - appeared age after age , which the most ignorant warriors felt was true and mighty for them , for which no ...
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... living for ? To the multitude these sensual promises were a tolerable answer . These were the things to be desired ; for these , by whatsoever means the Koran or its interpreters prescribed , if they were in earnest , they were to ...
... living for ? To the multitude these sensual promises were a tolerable answer . These were the things to be desired ; for these , by whatsoever means the Koran or its interpreters prescribed , if they were in earnest , they were to ...
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