Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... authority of reason , nature or by habit , our faculties are and range capriciously from one ob- fitted to images of a certain extent , ject to another . to which we adjust great things by The disposition to defer every im- division ...
... authority of reason , nature or by habit , our faculties are and range capriciously from one ob- fitted to images of a certain extent , ject to another . to which we adjust great things by The disposition to defer every im- division ...
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... authority of reli- admonish them to beware of that gion , nor to the testimony of the rock on which thousands , from race aged , but to yourselves , and your own to race , continue to split . The love experience . We ask , whether you ...
... authority of reli- admonish them to beware of that gion , nor to the testimony of the rock on which thousands , from race aged , but to yourselves , and your own to race , continue to split . The love experience . We ask , whether you ...
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... authority to counsel . To desire the simplicity of intention , and purity of esteem of others for the sake of its principle , that can stand the test of effects , is not only allowable , but in near approach and strict examina- many ...
... authority to counsel . To desire the simplicity of intention , and purity of esteem of others for the sake of its principle , that can stand the test of effects , is not only allowable , but in near approach and strict examina- many ...
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... authority , or the clearest deductions where the heart is but little concerned of reason ; by which means their sys- and to which their own dispositions tem of religion hangs so much toge - preserved them from any temptations . or other ...
... authority , or the clearest deductions where the heart is but little concerned of reason ; by which means their sys- and to which their own dispositions tem of religion hangs so much toge - preserved them from any temptations . or other ...
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... authority in those with which we really are endued . who rule , and promote deference How common is it for those who among those who obey . I conclude profess ( and perhaps sincerely ) to with repeating the caution , not to believe with ...
... authority in those with which we really are endued . who rule , and promote deference How common is it for those who among those who obey . I conclude profess ( and perhaps sincerely ) to with repeating the caution , not to believe with ...
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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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