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... philosophy could acquire by the patience and toil of centuries . The Bible ex- pands the mind , exalts the faculties , developes the powers of the will and of feeling , furnishes a more just estimate of the true dignity of man , and ...
... philosophy could acquire by the patience and toil of centuries . The Bible ex- pands the mind , exalts the faculties , developes the powers of the will and of feeling , furnishes a more just estimate of the true dignity of man , and ...
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... philosophers and great men of other times lighted their torch in Zion , and the altars of learning caught their first spark from the flame that glowed within her temple . The tongue of man is the glory of his frame ; and the use of it ...
... philosophers and great men of other times lighted their torch in Zion , and the altars of learning caught their first spark from the flame that glowed within her temple . The tongue of man is the glory of his frame ; and the use of it ...
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... philosopher who could think like Newton ; or a moralist who could illustrate human obligation like Edwards or Johnson ; we find a proof of the superiority of Christian principles even in those works of imagination OF THE SCRIPTURES . 47.
... philosopher who could think like Newton ; or a moralist who could illustrate human obligation like Edwards or Johnson ; we find a proof of the superiority of Christian principles even in those works of imagination OF THE SCRIPTURES . 47.
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... philosophers who have set aside , or forgotten the inspiration of the Scriptures , have taught that the earlier codes of law , -codes designed for men in their wildest state , and at a period of the world when their wants were few and ...
... philosophers who have set aside , or forgotten the inspiration of the Scriptures , have taught that the earlier codes of law , -codes designed for men in their wildest state , and at a period of the world when their wants were few and ...
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... philosophers were the first authors of laws . Now , all this proceeds upon an entirely gratuitous assumption ; an assumption as contrary to sober , uninspired history , as it is to the word of God . That assumption is " that the ...
... philosophers were the first authors of laws . Now , all this proceeds upon an entirely gratuitous assumption ; an assumption as contrary to sober , uninspired history , as it is to the word of God . That assumption is " that the ...
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