Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or A Dictionary Of Arts, Sciences, And Miscellaneous Literature; Enlarged And Improved: Scr-Sug, Volume 19Printed at the Encyclopaedia Press for Archibald Constable [and others], 1817 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1817 pages |
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... measure unconnected with the reft . But in fome copies of the Septuagint these fix chapters follow immediately after the 13th verfe of the 25th chapter . Jeremiah , though deficient neither in elegance nor fublimity , muft give place in ...
... measure unconnected with the reft . But in fome copies of the Septuagint these fix chapters follow immediately after the 13th verfe of the 25th chapter . Jeremiah , though deficient neither in elegance nor fublimity , muft give place in ...
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... measure as being folemn and melancholy . " That the fubject of the Lamentations is the deftruc- tion of the holy city and temple , the overthrow of the state , the extermination of the people ; and that thefe events are defcribed as ...
... measure as being folemn and melancholy . " That the fubject of the Lamentations is the deftruc- tion of the holy city and temple , the overthrow of the state , the extermination of the people ; and that thefe events are defcribed as ...
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... measure neglected . This peculiarity has not esca- ped the obfervation of Jerome : " He is altogether ( fays he , fpeaking of this prophet ) laconic and fententious . " But this very circumftance , which anciently was fup- pofed no ...
... measure neglected . This peculiarity has not esca- ped the obfervation of Jerome : " He is altogether ( fays he , fpeaking of this prophet ) laconic and fententious . " But this very circumftance , which anciently was fup- pofed no ...
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... measure the testimony of these churches to a higher age is , that they had now for their bifhop Po- thinus , who was 90 years old , and whofe early life con- fequently must have immediately followed the times of the apoftles . In this ...
... measure the testimony of these churches to a higher age is , that they had now for their bifhop Po- thinus , who was 90 years old , and whofe early life con- fequently must have immediately followed the times of the apoftles . In this ...
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... measure ye mete , it shall be measured viii . 1. i . 2. to you again . " Suppofing Polycarp to have had thefe words from the books in which we now find them , it is manifeft that these books were confidered by him , and by his readers ...
... measure ye mete , it shall be measured viii . 1. i . 2. to you again . " Suppofing Polycarp to have had thefe words from the books in which we now find them , it is manifeft that these books were confidered by him , and by his readers ...
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