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... circumstance that has now taken place in France of the total abolition of the whole national order of priesthood , and of every thing appertaining to compulsive systems of religion , and compulsive articles of faith , has not only ...
... circumstance that has now taken place in France of the total abolition of the whole national order of priesthood , and of every thing appertaining to compulsive systems of religion , and compulsive articles of faith , has not only ...
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... circumstance required a much stronger evidence than their bare word for it ; but we have not even this - for neither Joseph nor Mary wrote any such matter themselves ; it is only reported by others that they said so - it is hearsay upon ...
... circumstance required a much stronger evidence than their bare word for it ; but we have not even this - for neither Joseph nor Mary wrote any such matter themselves ; it is only reported by others that they said so - it is hearsay upon ...
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... circumstance of the mountain , that of its being a volcano , suggested the idea of the fable ; and that the fable is made to fit and wind itself up with that circumstance . The Christian Mythologists tell us that their Sa- tan made war ...
... circumstance of the mountain , that of its being a volcano , suggested the idea of the fable ; and that the fable is made to fit and wind itself up with that circumstance . The Christian Mythologists tell us that their Sa- tan made war ...
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... circumstances that unites with it ; both of which , in this case , are not diffi- cult to be discovered . Putting then aside , as a matter of distinct consi- deration , the outrage offered to the moral justice of God , by supposing him ...
... circumstances that unites with it ; both of which , in this case , are not diffi- cult to be discovered . Putting then aside , as a matter of distinct consi- deration , the outrage offered to the moral justice of God , by supposing him ...
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... circumstances , cannot be impressed upon their memory ; their place of mental residence is the understanding , and they are never so lasting as when they begin by con- ception . Thus much for the introductory part . From the time I was ...
... circumstances , cannot be impressed upon their memory ; their place of mental residence is the understanding , and they are never so lasting as when they begin by con- ception . Thus much for the introductory part . From the time I was ...
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Page 147 - Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into the city, and shewed unto the chief priests all the things that were done.
Page 34 - The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great original proclaim. The unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an Almighty hand. Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as...
Page 101 - And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Beth-el, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him.
Page 113 - These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.
Page 112 - I die: * remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: * lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, "Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 137 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Page 123 - We beseech thee, let this man be put to death : for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them : for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
Page 105 - Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, "Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the Lord God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The...
Page 108 - The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore...
Page 8 - I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.