Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 1S. Walker, 1826 - English letters |
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Page 196
... wise idolatry . If the design should ap- care of their preservation from such pear in itself manifestly wise and idolatrous customs , as there was very good , the proper means to effect it great reason to fear , would prove a will ...
... wise idolatry . If the design should ap- care of their preservation from such pear in itself manifestly wise and idolatrous customs , as there was very good , the proper means to effect it great reason to fear , would prove a will ...
Page 241
... wise men by a pro- This voice from heaven was such , phecy and by a star , to the Jews by so evident , so certain a conviction of the shepherds , to the Gentiles by the what it did intend to prove , so known three wise men , to Herod by ...
... wise men by a pro- This voice from heaven was such , phecy and by a star , to the Jews by so evident , so certain a conviction of the shepherds , to the Gentiles by the what it did intend to prove , so known three wise men , to Herod by ...
Page 276
... wise and harmo- far as it concerns man to know , is , nious composition . In both , indeed , that God will require of him accord- in the natural as well as the moral ing to what he hath , and not ac- book of God , there are , and ever ...
... wise and harmo- far as it concerns man to know , is , nious composition . In both , indeed , that God will require of him accord- in the natural as well as the moral ing to what he hath , and not ac- book of God , there are , and ever ...
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