The American Eclectic, Volume 2Absalom Peters, Selah Burr Treat, John Holmes Agnew W.R. Peters, 1841 - American periodicals |
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... called block - books , printed in fixed characters , but never exceeding a very few leaves . The earliest book printed from the movable types of Gutenberg is generally believed to be the Latin Bible , commonly called the Mazarin Bible ...
... called block - books , printed in fixed characters , but never exceeding a very few leaves . The earliest book printed from the movable types of Gutenberg is generally believed to be the Latin Bible , commonly called the Mazarin Bible ...
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... called the statistics of literature , and such sections as we cannot abridge without injury . We must , therefore , content ourselves with a general recom- mendation of Mr. Hallam's account of Bodinus and Bacon , of Hobbes and Descartes ...
... called the statistics of literature , and such sections as we cannot abridge without injury . We must , therefore , content ourselves with a general recom- mendation of Mr. Hallam's account of Bodinus and Bacon , of Hobbes and Descartes ...
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... called in question by the Catholics themselves . Under this later form , which dates from the writings of Bellarmine , the controversy , which is hardly extinct in our own times , divided the theological litera- ture of the next century ...
... called in question by the Catholics themselves . Under this later form , which dates from the writings of Bellarmine , the controversy , which is hardly extinct in our own times , divided the theological litera- ture of the next century ...
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... called Irish House of Com- mons . Up to the period of its incorporation with the British parliament in 1800 , the crown was under no necessity of applying to the Irish par- liament annually for supplies , the revenues of Ireland being ...
... called Irish House of Com- mons . Up to the period of its incorporation with the British parliament in 1800 , the crown was under no necessity of applying to the Irish par- liament annually for supplies , the revenues of Ireland being ...
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... called Zeus ; a word which beyond a doubt contains the two ideas of heaven and day . The queen of heaven , whom we name Juno * from the Latins , was origin- ally a personification of the earth , as several of her names ( Hera , Deine ...
... called Zeus ; a word which beyond a doubt contains the two ideas of heaven and day . The queen of heaven , whom we name Juno * from the Latins , was origin- ally a personification of the earth , as several of her names ( Hera , Deine ...
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Page 450 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 557 - This also we humbly and earnestly beg, that human things may not prejudice such as are divine ; neither that from the unlocking of the gates of sense, and the kindling of a greater natural light, anything of incredulity, or intellectual night, may arise in our minds towards divine mysteries.
Page 256 - Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the LORD God of Israel; then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you : for we seek your God, as ye do ; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esar-haddon, king of Assur, which brought us up hither.
Page 483 - Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest : and he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you : on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.
Page 108 - The civil magistrate may not assume to himself the administration of the word and sacraments, or the power of the keys of the kingdom of heaven : yet he hath authority, and it is his duty, to take order that unity and peace be preserved in the Church, that the truth of God be kept pure and entire, that all blasphemies and heresies be suppressed, all corruptions and abuses in worship and discipline prevented or reformed, and all the ordinances of God duly SETTLED, administered, and observed.
Page 559 - Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the Sons of God shouted for joy?
Page 559 - I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Page 109 - ... truth of God be kept pure and entire, that all blasphemies and heresies be suppressed, all corruptions and abuses in worship and discipline prevented or reformed, and all the ordinances of God duly settled, administered, and observed. For the better effecting whereof he hath power to call synods, to be present at them, and to provide that whatsoever is transacted in them be according to the mind of God.
Page 441 - England, no nor the harmony of protestant confessions ; but that wherein they all agree, and which they all subscribe with a greater harmony, as a perfect rule of their faith and actions ; that is, the Bible. The Bible, I say, the Bible only, is the religion of protestants...
Page 482 - The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me ; unto him ye shall hearken...