Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... idolatrous regard for the dead languages , he was not less conversant with the writers of France , Italy , and Spain , than with those of his own country . It is unnecessary to attempt a delineation of the qualities that adorned his ...
... idolatrous regard for the dead languages , he was not less conversant with the writers of France , Italy , and Spain , than with those of his own country . It is unnecessary to attempt a delineation of the qualities that adorned his ...
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... idolatry , and the conduct of Socrates , and other wise men , re- specting it , a proof of the necessity of revelation Ibid . 84 81 Gentleness best promoted by Religious Views 82 Gentleness to be assumed , as the Orna- ment of every Age ...
... idolatry , and the conduct of Socrates , and other wise men , re- specting it , a proof of the necessity of revelation Ibid . 84 81 Gentleness best promoted by Religious Views 82 Gentleness to be assumed , as the Orna- ment of every Age ...
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... idolatry , that I think Testament ; on which account I there will not need much examina- reckon that the truth of such facts tion in so clear a case ; and that , by is to be principally inquired into , consequence , our main inquiry is ...
... idolatry , that I think Testament ; on which account I there will not need much examina- reckon that the truth of such facts tion in so clear a case ; and that , by is to be principally inquired into , consequence , our main inquiry is ...
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... idolatry of the na- an holy people to Jehovah , and a tions round about them , whether the kingdom of priests . For thus Moses idolatry they had seen while they is directed to tell the children of Is - dwelt in the land of Egypt , or ...
... idolatry of the na- an holy people to Jehovah , and a tions round about them , whether the kingdom of priests . For thus Moses idolatry they had seen while they is directed to tell the children of Is - dwelt in the land of Egypt , or ...
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... idolatry , encouragements to idolatry . that the several blessings of life came The idolatrous nations worshipped from some demon or idol , to whom subordinate beings , whom they owned the authority and power of bestow- subject to the ...
... idolatry , encouragements to idolatry . that the several blessings of life came The idolatrous nations worshipped from some demon or idol , to whom subordinate beings , whom they owned the authority and power of bestow- subject to the ...
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