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... early part of the seventeenth century , in his work entitled , " Christianity as old as the Creation , " labours to show that it was impossible for God to teach men what they did not know before , and that the perfec- tion of the human ...
... early part of the seventeenth century , in his work entitled , " Christianity as old as the Creation , " labours to show that it was impossible for God to teach men what they did not know before , and that the perfec- tion of the human ...
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... early and rude state of this invention ? The use of language is so necessary to the conve- nience and comfort of man , and the difficulty of form- ing it so obvious , that it is not unreasonable to sup- pose it would be immediately ...
... early and rude state of this invention ? The use of language is so necessary to the conve- nience and comfort of man , and the difficulty of form- ing it so obvious , that it is not unreasonable to sup- pose it would be immediately ...
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... early worship of our first parents could not have been purely mental and med- itative ; but oral , and in the noblest language ever uttered by man . We learn , too , that our progenitor very early gave names to all the animal creation ...
... early worship of our first parents could not have been purely mental and med- itative ; but oral , and in the noblest language ever uttered by man . We learn , too , that our progenitor very early gave names to all the animal creation ...
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... earliest specimens of a writ- ten language came from the Hebrews ? Is there not presumptive evidence of this , in the mere fact that the first oral ... early as the time of Moses , it will not be denied except 18 ORAL AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE .
... earliest specimens of a writ- ten language came from the Hebrews ? Is there not presumptive evidence of this , in the mere fact that the first oral ... early as the time of Moses , it will not be denied except 18 ORAL AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE .
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... early patriarchs . But is it to be supposed that every book in 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 argument ...
... early patriarchs . But is it to be supposed that every book in 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 argument ...
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