Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... Reason and History All the religious Knowledge in the world derived from Revelation Dryden . 238 A moral Demonstration of the Truth Ibid . 95 Sterne's Sermons . 97 138 90 Ridicule dangerous to Morality and Re- Smollett . 98 139 Rambler ...
... Reason and History All the religious Knowledge in the world derived from Revelation Dryden . 238 A moral Demonstration of the Truth Ibid . 95 Sterne's Sermons . 97 138 90 Ridicule dangerous to Morality and Re- Smollett . 98 139 Rambler ...
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... Reason indeed was always at hand incessant vigilance , be preserved , he to steer the passengers through a must sink at last . narrow outlet , by which they might This necessity of perishing night escape ; but very few could , by her ...
... Reason indeed was always at hand incessant vigilance , be preserved , he to steer the passengers through a must sink at last . narrow outlet , by which they might This necessity of perishing night escape ; but very few could , by her ...
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... reason indeed assures no question but the universe has cer- us , that his attributes are infinite : tain bounds set to it ; but when we but the poorness of our conceptions consider that it is the work of infi- is such , that it cannot ...
... reason indeed assures no question but the universe has cer- us , that his attributes are infinite : tain bounds set to it ; but when we but the poorness of our conceptions consider that it is the work of infi- is such , that it cannot ...
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... reason but that 1 see my life , but also my manner of thought what he proposed the effect life renewed . It would be extremely of humour and old age , which I am beneficial to society , if you would now convinced had reason and good ...
... reason but that 1 see my life , but also my manner of thought what he proposed the effect life renewed . It would be extremely of humour and old age , which I am beneficial to society , if you would now convinced had reason and good ...
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... reason interposes against in- and I have the inexpressible happi- stinct , where it would carry either ness of overhearing our neighbours , out of the interests of the other , as we ride by , point to their chil there arises that ...
... reason interposes against in- and I have the inexpressible happi- stinct , where it would carry either ness of overhearing our neighbours , out of the interests of the other , as we ride by , point to their chil there arises that ...
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Elegant Extracts, Or Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry (Classic Reprint) Vicesimus Knox No preview available - 2018 |
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