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... character , and fall - the promise of a Saviour and his predicted victories - the patriarchal age - the deluge the foundation of the new world - the settle- ment of the mother country - the division of the earth - the confusion of ...
... character , and fall - the promise of a Saviour and his predicted victories - the patriarchal age - the deluge the foundation of the new world - the settle- ment of the mother country - the division of the earth - the confusion of ...
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... character in every age and country with which they are conversant : - -as in the history of the antediluvian world , and the entire * For information on this subject , see the different Encyclopędias , Bedford's Chronology , and Winder ...
... character in every age and country with which they are conversant : - -as in the history of the antediluvian world , and the entire * For information on this subject , see the different Encyclopędias , Bedford's Chronology , and Winder ...
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... characters walk and breathe . They are nature , and nothing but nature . By a single stroke of the pencil you often have their portrait . You see them . You hear them . Every scene in which you behold them is a fit subject for the ...
... characters walk and breathe . They are nature , and nothing but nature . By a single stroke of the pencil you often have their portrait . You see them . You hear them . Every scene in which you behold them is a fit subject for the ...
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... character from the rich treasury of revelation . And the more splendid fictions of the poet derive their highest charm from the evangelical philanthropy , tenderness and sublimity that invest them . But for the Bible , Homer and Milton ...
... character from the rich treasury of revelation . And the more splendid fictions of the poet derive their highest charm from the evangelical philanthropy , tenderness and sublimity that invest them . But for the Bible , Homer and Milton ...
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... character of literary and scientific men may be so safely and successfully formed . The more he reads , the more , I am confident , an accomplished scholar will study the Bible . There are no finer English scholars than the men educated ...
... character of literary and scientific men may be so safely and successfully formed . The more he reads , the more , I am confident , an accomplished scholar will study the Bible . There are no finer English scholars than the men educated ...
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