A Historical Account of the Life and Reign of David, King of Israel, in Four Books: Interspersed with Various Conjectures, Digressions and Disquisitions, in which Among Other Things) Mr. Bayle's Criticisms Upon the Conduct and Character of that Prince are Fully ConsideredS. Richardson, 1759 |
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... thefe advantages gave him little diftinction , in a family where beauty feems to have been familiar and hereditary . CHAP . II . A Digreffion concerning Samuel , the Pro- phets , and their Schools . T HE unfcriptural reader may poffibly ...
... thefe advantages gave him little diftinction , in a family where beauty feems to have been familiar and hereditary . CHAP . II . A Digreffion concerning Samuel , the Pro- phets , and their Schools . T HE unfcriptural reader may poffibly ...
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... thefe men , and their schools , take this fhort account : THE Jewish nation had no fuch schools or fe- minaries for the education of their children , as are now in ufe among us : with them , parents were 1 · in the place of tutors ; and ...
... thefe men , and their schools , take this fhort account : THE Jewish nation had no fuch schools or fe- minaries for the education of their children , as are now in ufe among us : with them , parents were 1 · in the place of tutors ; and ...
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... thefe would gain them all the credit and efteem they defired : and as their law - giver had taken fufficient care to inculcate this duty , nothing was more juftly re- putable amongst them , than a confcientious dif- charge of it ...
... thefe would gain them all the credit and efteem they defired : and as their law - giver had taken fufficient care to inculcate this duty , nothing was more juftly re- putable amongst them , than a confcientious dif- charge of it ...
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... thefe advantages impow- ered and infpired the prophets to preach true righteoufnefs to the people ; and to deprefs the value of all the rituals of religion , compared with it ; to preach and to prepare them for the kingdom of the ...
... thefe advantages impow- ered and infpired the prophets to preach true righteoufnefs to the people ; and to deprefs the value of all the rituals of religion , compared with it ; to preach and to prepare them for the kingdom of the ...
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... thefe schools they studied and practised music in great perfection ; and as the praises of GOD made a con- fiderable part of their business , it is not to be imagined that their mufic was without fong . To conclude : " Here ( fays the ...
... thefe schools they studied and practised music in great perfection ; and as the praises of GOD made a con- fiderable part of their business , it is not to be imagined that their mufic was without fong . To conclude : " Here ( fays the ...
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