The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 6, Part 11810 |
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... fact better adapted for the closet than the pul- pit . If they had assumed the form of essays , or any shape and title whatever , excepting that of Sermons , we should have read them with pleasure , as elegant and ingenious produc ...
... fact better adapted for the closet than the pul- pit . If they had assumed the form of essays , or any shape and title whatever , excepting that of Sermons , we should have read them with pleasure , as elegant and ingenious produc ...
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... fact , they never did so ; and that till the æra of the Christian revelation , the principles of natural re- ligion were almost as little understood by the bulk of mankind as the scheme of their future redemption . ' pp . 79-84 . We ...
... fact , they never did so ; and that till the æra of the Christian revelation , the principles of natural re- ligion were almost as little understood by the bulk of mankind as the scheme of their future redemption . ' pp . 79-84 . We ...
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... facts disprov'd ' Good . In enumerating the Furies , as a tribe whose existence the Roman bard never dared to oppose , the learned Abbé is equally unfortunate : we have only to turn to iii . 1022 for the following lines . Cerberus et ...
... facts disprov'd ' Good . In enumerating the Furies , as a tribe whose existence the Roman bard never dared to oppose , the learned Abbé is equally unfortunate : we have only to turn to iii . 1022 for the following lines . Cerberus et ...
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... facts and phænomena , the moral and religious feelings , of our own day , our common profession of Christianity . The poem before us is divided into eight books or cantos : the progressive subject of which will be best perceived by the ...
... facts and phænomena , the moral and religious feelings , of our own day , our common profession of Christianity . The poem before us is divided into eight books or cantos : the progressive subject of which will be best perceived by the ...
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... facts and a patient scrutiny of complex evidence , not only clings to his ignorance with pertinacious fondness , but chuses to pester the world with his wrong - headed effusions , silence is usually the best treat- We cannot always ...
... facts and a patient scrutiny of complex evidence , not only clings to his ignorance with pertinacious fondness , but chuses to pester the world with his wrong - headed effusions , silence is usually the best treat- We cannot always ...
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Page 108 - ... sun. And behold a man bent with age coming from the way of the wilderness leaning on a staff. And Abraham arose, and met him, and said unto him, ' Turn in, I pray thee, and wash thy feet, and tarry all night ; and thou shall arise early in the morning, and go on thy way.' And the man said, 'Nay; for I will abide under this tree.