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... better , after killing an enemy , to eat him , than to leave him to be de- voured by beasts , and that conquerors deserved the preference . We in pitched battles or en- counters kill our neighbours , and , for a most scanty hire ...
... better , after killing an enemy , to eat him , than to leave him to be de- voured by beasts , and that conquerors deserved the preference . We in pitched battles or en- counters kill our neighbours , and , for a most scanty hire ...
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... better end than poor Vanini . From all these facts , I now proceed to Bayle's moral question , " Whether a society of atheists “ could subsist ? " And here let us previously ob- serve , the enormous contradiction of men in disputes ...
... better end than poor Vanini . From all these facts , I now proceed to Bayle's moral question , " Whether a society of atheists “ could subsist ? " And here let us previously ob- serve , the enormous contradiction of men in disputes ...
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... better for the Greeks to stand in awe of Ceres , Neptune , and Jupiter , than to be under no manner of awe ; the sacredness of oaths is manifest and ne- cessary , and they who hold that perjury will be punished , are certainly more to ...
... better for the Greeks to stand in awe of Ceres , Neptune , and Jupiter , than to be under no manner of awe ; the sacredness of oaths is manifest and ne- cessary , and they who hold that perjury will be punished , are certainly more to ...
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... better to shew you the meseraic veins . All the same organs of sensation which are in yourself you perceive in him . Now , Machinist , what say you ? answer me , has nature created all the springs of feelings in this animal , that it ...
... better to shew you the meseraic veins . All the same organs of sensation which are in yourself you perceive in him . Now , Machinist , what say you ? answer me , has nature created all the springs of feelings in this animal , that it ...
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... better than that of CONFUTZEE , my master , " Live as thou wouldst " have lived when thou comest to die ; use thy " neighbour as thou wouldst have him use thee . ' Kou . Those maxims , I own , should be man- kind's standing law . But ...
... better than that of CONFUTZEE , my master , " Live as thou wouldst " have lived when thou comest to die ; use thy " neighbour as thou wouldst have him use thee . ' Kou . Those maxims , I own , should be man- kind's standing law . But ...
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Page 181 - The condition of Man after the fall of Adam is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith, and calling upon God. Wherefore we have no power to do good works pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.
Page 8 - For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment...
Page 97 - Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Page 308 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 12 - ... thus saith the Lord God ; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood. Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
Page 272 - And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, that Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying, Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.
Page 96 - For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law : but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
Page 155 - But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
Page 155 - Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love ; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamest mine.
Page 113 - We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of all things, visible and invisible: And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, begotten of the Father...