Cambridge Essays, Volume 3

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John W. Parker and son, 1857

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Page 273 - may, we should never rest till of the scene of such atrocities it might be said, in the awful words of the Prophet, that— ' It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : but wild beasts of the desert shall be there, and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures. The
Page 12 - University of Cambridge. Christ and other Masters : An Historical Inquiry into some of the chief Parallelisms and Contrasts between Christianity and the Religious Systems of the Ancient World ; with special reference to prevailing Difficulties and Objections. Part I. Introduction. Part II. Religions of India. In 8vo. cloth, 7». Orf. each. Part III. Religions of China.
Page 273 - shall be full of doleful creatures. The owl shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in her desolate houses. And dragons in the pleasant palaces.' The conclusions, then, which seem to issue from the facts before us, are these
Page 3 - Dr. Wilson unites poetic with scientific faculty, and this union gives a charm to all he writes. In the little volume before us he has described the live senses in language so popular that a child may comprehend the meaning, so suggestive that philosophers will read it with pleasure.
Page 35 - a matter of rhetoric, to say that it is better that ten guilty persons should escape than that one innocent one should suffer ; but it would be absurd to attempt to maintain as a matter of logic, that it was better that ten thousand guilty persons should escape than that one innocent one should suffer. The occasional
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Page 11 - EJ HOWARD, DD, Dean of Lichfeld. 1. The Book of Genesis, according to the Version of the LXX. Translated into English, with Notices of its Omissions and Insertions, and with Notes on the Passages in which it differs from our Authorized Version. Crown
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