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... perhaps , and in mine , that we must look for the obstruction which shuts us out from the enjoyment of an inheritance whereupon otherwise we might forthwith enter an inheritance left to us by our predecessors in the Christian life ...
... perhaps , and in mine , that we must look for the obstruction which shuts us out from the enjoyment of an inheritance whereupon otherwise we might forthwith enter an inheritance left to us by our predecessors in the Christian life ...
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... perhaps , be sufficiently clear where we summing up would place and how it is proposed to estimate the oratori- chapter . cal remains of the Church Fathers . They are the works of men , more or less eminent in their own right : but who ...
... perhaps , be sufficiently clear where we summing up would place and how it is proposed to estimate the oratori- chapter . cal remains of the Church Fathers . They are the works of men , more or less eminent in their own right : but who ...
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... perhaps see reason to adopt a threefold division of the prescribed centuries , recognising , first , the Apostolic era , then the Philosophic and Mystic , and , lastly , the Ora- torical proper . We shall then come to examine certain à ...
... perhaps see reason to adopt a threefold division of the prescribed centuries , recognising , first , the Apostolic era , then the Philosophic and Mystic , and , lastly , the Ora- torical proper . We shall then come to examine certain à ...
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... perhaps reason sufficient for the exclu- sion of Commodus from superficial catalogues like that to which we are now alluding . Yet he made no change by any express edict in favour of the persecuted religion : whose followers remained ...
... perhaps reason sufficient for the exclu- sion of Commodus from superficial catalogues like that to which we are now alluding . Yet he made no change by any express edict in favour of the persecuted religion : whose followers remained ...
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... perhaps not more than a third part are directly attributable to the personal influence of the imperial Thracian . And , with regard to the insertion into the list of Aure- Aurelian . lian's name , we must remember that his five years of ...
... perhaps not more than a third part are directly attributable to the personal influence of the imperial Thracian . And , with regard to the insertion into the list of Aure- Aurelian . lian's name , we must remember that his five years of ...
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