The Obligations of the World to the Bible: A Series of Lectures to Young Men |
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... of human knowledge we tread , there is scarcely a science , or pursuit of permanent advantage to mankind , which may not either trace its origin to the Bible , or to which the Bible will not be found to be a powerful auxiliary .
... of human knowledge we tread , there is scarcely a science , or pursuit of permanent advantage to mankind , which may not either trace its origin to the Bible , or to which the Bible will not be found to be a powerful auxiliary .
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But while the nature of the case might convince us that language is of divine origin , when we look into the Mosaic history , that conviction must be confirmed . There we learn that the laws given to our first parents were given through ...
But while the nature of the case might convince us that language is of divine origin , when we look into the Mosaic history , that conviction must be confirmed . There we learn that the laws given to our first parents were given through ...
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Goguet , in his Origin of Laws , Arts and Sciences , remarks , that " the comparison of the Phoenician and Greek Alphabets would alone be sufficient to convince us of this . It is visible that the Greek characters are only the ...
Goguet , in his Origin of Laws , Arts and Sciences , remarks , that " the comparison of the Phoenician and Greek Alphabets would alone be sufficient to convince us of this . It is visible that the Greek characters are only the ...
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Though comparatively * The leading authors to which I have had access on this general subject are Winder's History of Knowledge - Goguet's Origin of Laws - Dugald Stewart's Dissertation prefixed to the Encyclopędia Britannica - the ...
Though comparatively * The leading authors to which I have had access on this general subject are Winder's History of Knowledge - Goguet's Origin of Laws - Dugald Stewart's Dissertation prefixed to the Encyclopędia Britannica - the ...
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Is not the only answer to this question found in the fact , that the origin of the art is to be attributed to God himself , and that he was the original instructor of Moses during the forty days in which he was upon the mount ?
Is not the only answer to this question found in the fact , that the origin of the art is to be attributed to God himself , and that he was the original instructor of Moses during the forty days in which he was upon the mount ?
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| Title | The Obligations of the World to the Bible: A Series of Lectures to Young Men |
| Author | Gardiner Spring |
| Publisher | M. W. Dodd, 1854 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 31 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 326 pages |
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