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... Manners , and of Religion , is always most surely established , when effected by slow Degrees , and as it were imperceptible Gradations . Thus also at the first Promulgation of Christianity to the Gentile Nations , through the Force of ...
... Manners , and of Religion , is always most surely established , when effected by slow Degrees , and as it were imperceptible Gradations . Thus also at the first Promulgation of Christianity to the Gentile Nations , through the Force of ...
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... Manners . 66 Mr. Bourne , my predecessor in this Walk , has not , from whatever Cause , done Justice to the Subject he undertook to treat of . Far from having the Vanity to think that I have exhausted it , the utmost of my Preten- sions ...
... Manners . 66 Mr. Bourne , my predecessor in this Walk , has not , from whatever Cause , done Justice to the Subject he undertook to treat of . Far from having the Vanity to think that I have exhausted it , the utmost of my Preten- sions ...
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... Manners , gave every kind of countenance to SINNERS . A Profusion of childish Rites , Pageants and Ceremo- nies diverted the Attention of the People from the consi- deration of their real State , and kept them in humour , if it did not ...
... Manners , gave every kind of countenance to SINNERS . A Profusion of childish Rites , Pageants and Ceremo- nies diverted the Attention of the People from the consi- deration of their real State , and kept them in humour , if it did not ...
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... Manner to this in particular ; it being the genuine Offspring of your Generosity . As I am sensible that you have bless'd me with the most inestimable Favours , so I am bound in Duty , and by all the Tyes of Gratitude , to lay the First ...
... Manner to this in particular ; it being the genuine Offspring of your Generosity . As I am sensible that you have bless'd me with the most inestimable Favours , so I am bound in Duty , and by all the Tyes of Gratitude , to lay the First ...
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... Manner . 220 CHAP . XVIII . · Of St. Paul's - Day : The Observation of the Weather , a Custom of the Heathens , and handed down by the Monks : The Apostle St. Paul , himself is against such Observations : The Opinion of St. Austin upon ...
... Manner . 220 CHAP . XVIII . · Of St. Paul's - Day : The Observation of the Weather , a Custom of the Heathens , and handed down by the Monks : The Apostle St. Paul , himself is against such Observations : The Opinion of St. Austin upon ...
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