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Page 38
... claims to be considered as the standard of a polished and useful literature . The characteristic style of the Bible is , that it is always adapted to the subjects of which it speaks . A chaste , terse , nervous diction distinguishes all ...
... claims to be considered as the standard of a polished and useful literature . The characteristic style of the Bible is , that it is always adapted to the subjects of which it speaks . A chaste , terse , nervous diction distinguishes all ...
Page 51
... claim the earnest attention of the young . I know of no standard by which the 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 ...
... claim the earnest attention of the young . I know of no standard by which the 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 ...
Page 55
... claims of the one only living and true God , as the autocrat of the He- brew nation , and at the same time presenting a com- prehensive statement of the duties which mań owes to his fellow man . It was given , not through the inter ...
... claims of the one only living and true God , as the autocrat of the He- brew nation , and at the same time presenting a com- prehensive statement of the duties which mań owes to his fellow man . It was given , not through the inter ...
Page 56
... claims to all the nations of men . what may Next to this great moral law , there are be called the Civil or Political Laws . They differ from the moral law in several important particulars ; but in none more than this , that they do not ...
... claims to all the nations of men . what may Next to this great moral law , there are be called the Civil or Political Laws . They differ from the moral law in several important particulars ; but in none more than this , that they do not ...
Page 78
... claims our reverence , if it were for nothing but its high antiquity . But it has higher claims . Taken as a whole , it contains more sublime truths , and maxims more essentially connected with the well - being of our race , than all ...
... claims our reverence , if it were for nothing but its high antiquity . But it has higher claims . Taken as a whole , it contains more sublime truths , and maxims more essentially connected with the well - being of our race , than all ...
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