The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 4Bohn, 1854 |
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... light , as dreams may give us some idea of the great excellency of a human soul , and some intimations of its independency on matter . In the first place , our dreams are great instances of that activity which is natural to the human ...
... light , as dreams may give us some idea of the great excellency of a human soul , and some intimations of its independency on matter . In the first place , our dreams are great instances of that activity which is natural to the human ...
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... light , are like the spies sent by Moses to make a discovery of the Land of Promise , when by their reports they discouraged the people from entering upon it . Those who show us the joy , the cheerfulness , the good - humour , that ...
... light , are like the spies sent by Moses to make a discovery of the Land of Promise , when by their reports they discouraged the people from entering upon it . Those who show us the joy , the cheerfulness , the good - humour , that ...
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... light has the Holy Scrip- ture represented Abdon , one of the judges of Israel , who had forty sons and thirty grand - sons , that rode on three- score and ten ass - colts , according to the magnificence of the Eastern countries ! How ...
... light has the Holy Scrip- ture represented Abdon , one of the judges of Israel , who had forty sons and thirty grand - sons , that rode on three- score and ten ass - colts , according to the magnificence of the Eastern countries ! How ...
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... Light his shadow . " According to this de- finition , there is nothing so contradictory to his nature , as error and falsehood . The Platonists have so just a notion of the Almighty's aversion to everything which is false and erroneous ...
... Light his shadow . " According to this de- finition , there is nothing so contradictory to his nature , as error and falsehood . The Platonists have so just a notion of the Almighty's aversion to everything which is false and erroneous ...
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... light than as an officious tool or a well - meaning idiot . When it was formerly the fashion to husband a lie , and trump it up in some extraordinary emer- gency , it generally did execution , and was not a little ser- viceable to the ...
... light than as an officious tool or a well - meaning idiot . When it was formerly the fashion to husband a lie , and trump it up in some extraordinary emer- gency , it generally did execution , and was not a little ser- viceable to the ...
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