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... sacred precepts . Can then a higher service be performed for the youth of our metrop- olis than to vindicate its claims , assert its superi- ority , and challenge for it the scrutiny of the in- credulous , and the admiration of every ...
... sacred precepts . Can then a higher service be performed for the youth of our metrop- olis than to vindicate its claims , assert its superi- ority , and challenge for it the scrutiny of the in- credulous , and the admiration of every ...
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... sacred canon which does not refer to these events , was written prior to these events themselves ? Two things are indispensable to the conclusiveness of this ar- gument , neither of which is known . The first is , that upon the ...
... sacred canon which does not refer to these events , was written prior to these events themselves ? Two things are indispensable to the conclusiveness of this ar- gument , neither of which is known . The first is , that upon the ...
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... sacred Book to say , that philosophers and great men of other times lighted their torch in Zion , and the altars of learn- ing caught their first spark from the flame that glowed within her Temple . The tongue of man is the glory of his ...
... sacred Book to say , that philosophers and great men of other times lighted their torch in Zion , and the altars of learn- ing caught their first spark from the flame that glowed within her Temple . The tongue of man is the glory of his ...
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... sacred writers differ in this respect from all others . These dis- sertations have long been published to the world ; but they have lost none of their power , none of their grandeur and beauty . They are always new , and more and more ...
... sacred writers differ in this respect from all others . These dis- sertations have long been published to the world ; but they have lost none of their power , none of their grandeur and beauty . They are always new , and more and more ...
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... sacred Scriptures . May it not be doubted whether scholars have been sufficiently sensible of their obligations to our com- mon English Bible . It is the purest specimen of English , or Anglo - Saxon to be found in the world . It was ...
... sacred Scriptures . May it not be doubted whether scholars have been sufficiently sensible of their obligations to our com- mon English Bible . It is the purest specimen of English , or Anglo - Saxon to be found in the world . It was ...
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