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... human origin , it must certainly be regarded as the most wonderful effort of created in- telligence . That there should be so perfect a book in so early a state of the world ; that no volume , either ancient , or modern , and written in ...
... human origin , it must certainly be regarded as the most wonderful effort of created in- telligence . That there should be so perfect a book in so early a state of the world ; that no volume , either ancient , or modern , and written in ...
Page 37
... human 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 Encyclopædias , Bedford's Chronology , and ...
... human 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 Encyclopædias , Bedford's Chronology , and ...
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... human language , is there a paragraph , which , for boldness and variety of meta- phor , delicacy and majesty of thought , strength and invention , elegance and refinement , equals the passage in which God answers Job out of the ...
... human language , is there a paragraph , which , for boldness and variety of meta- phor , delicacy and majesty of thought , strength and invention , elegance and refinement , equals the passage in which God answers Job out of the ...
Page 47
... who could think like Newton ; or a moralist who could illustrate human obligation like Edwards or Johnson ; we find a proof of the superiority of Christian principles even in those works of imagination OF THE SCRIPTURES . 47.
... who could think like Newton ; or a moralist who could illustrate human obligation like Edwards or Johnson ; we find a proof of the superiority of Christian principles even in those works of imagination OF THE SCRIPTURES . 47.
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... human mind , has the Bible stricken off its fetters . The Scriptures constrain men to be learned . So that while on the one hand , literature has nothing to lose , but much to gain from the Bible , the Bible has much to gain , and ...
... human mind , has the Bible stricken off its fetters . The Scriptures constrain men to be learned . So that while on the one hand , literature has nothing to lose , but much to gain from the Bible , the Bible has much to gain , and ...
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