The Works of William Paley: With a Life, Volume 3F. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 - Theology |
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... transactions which took place about thirty years after that event . - Speaking of the fire which happened at Rome in the time of Nero , and of the suspicions which were entertained that the emperor himself was concerned in causing it ...
... transactions which took place about thirty years after that event . - Speaking of the fire which happened at Rome in the time of Nero , and of the suspicions which were entertained that the emperor himself was concerned in causing it ...
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... transactions of the same reign , uses these words : " Affecti suppliciis Christiani genus hominum superstitionis novæ et maleficæ * . " " The Christians , a set of men of a new and mis- chievous ( or magical ) superstition , were ...
... transactions of the same reign , uses these words : " Affecti suppliciis Christiani genus hominum superstitionis novæ et maleficæ * . " " The Christians , a set of men of a new and mis- chievous ( or magical ) superstition , were ...
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... transactions of Nero's reign , but is confined to the affairs of his own time . His celebrated letter to Trajan was written about seventy years after Christ's death ; and the information to be drawn from it , so far as it is connected ...
... transactions of Nero's reign , but is confined to the affairs of his own time . His celebrated letter to Trajan was written about seventy years after Christ's death ; and the information to be drawn from it , so far as it is connected ...
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... transaction must be sought for . And this is nothing dif- ferent from what might be expected . Who would write a history of Christianity , but a Christian ? Who was likely to record the travels , sufferings , labours , or successes of ...
... transaction must be sought for . And this is nothing dif- ferent from what might be expected . Who would write a history of Christianity , but a Christian ? Who was likely to record the travels , sufferings , labours , or successes of ...
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... transactions of that period . These letters , without borrowing from the history , or the history from them , unin- tentionally confirm the account which the history delivers , in a great variety of particulars . What belongs to our ...
... transactions of that period . These letters , without borrowing from the history , or the history from them , unin- tentionally confirm the account which the history delivers , in a great variety of particulars . What belongs to our ...
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