A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper : Consisting of Biographical Sketches of the Authors, Selections from Their Works, with Notes, Explanatory, Illustrative, and Directing to the Best Editions and to Various Criticisms : Designed as a Text-book for the Higher Classes in Schools and for Junior Classes in Colleges, as Well as for Private Reading |
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... Divine Wisdom .. Macaulay's Eulogy , ( note ) .. 320 280 Christian in Doubting Castle ........ 320 Guilt of making man Property , ( note ) 280 What is Wit ? .... 281 ROBERT BARCLAY 324 Knowledge a Source of Delight 282 Practical ...
... Divine Wisdom .. Macaulay's Eulogy , ( note ) .. 320 280 Christian in Doubting Castle ........ 320 Guilt of making man Property , ( note ) 280 What is Wit ? .... 281 ROBERT BARCLAY 324 Knowledge a Source of Delight 282 Practical ...
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... divine Calm in a restless World ... The Three Black Crows . 540 483 Launching into Eternity . 483 WILLIAM KING . 541 His Prose . 484 Virgil 541 General Directions relating to our A Repartee ... 543 Ideas ... 484 Singular Conduct 544 ...
... divine Calm in a restless World ... The Three Black Crows . 540 483 Launching into Eternity . 483 WILLIAM KING . 541 His Prose . 484 Virgil 541 General Directions relating to our A Repartee ... 543 Ideas ... 484 Singular Conduct 544 ...
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... divine and admirable spirit of Wiclif , to suppress him as a schis- matic or innovator , perhaps neither the Bohemian Husse and Jerome , no , nor the name of Luther or of Calvin , had ever been known . " And Milton is undoubtedly right ...
... divine and admirable spirit of Wiclif , to suppress him as a schis- matic or innovator , perhaps neither the Bohemian Husse and Jerome , no , nor the name of Luther or of Calvin , had ever been known . " And Milton is undoubtedly right ...
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... divine , he argued so conclusively in favor of a vernacular translation of the Bible , that the divine , unable to answer him , exclaimed , " We had better be without God's law than the pope's . " This fired the spirit of Tyndale , and ...
... divine , he argued so conclusively in favor of a vernacular translation of the Bible , that the divine , unable to answer him , exclaimed , " We had better be without God's law than the pope's . " This fired the spirit of Tyndale , and ...
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... divine breath , he bringeth things forth surpassing her doings ; with no small arguments to the incredulous of that first accursed fall of Adam . - Since our erect wit maketh us know what perfection is , and yet our infected will ...
... divine breath , he bringeth things forth surpassing her doings ; with no small arguments to the incredulous of that first accursed fall of Adam . - Since our erect wit maketh us know what perfection is , and yet our infected will ...
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