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... origin of the moral law , when these tables were presented to them , inscribed with mysterious and living characters ! If Moses himself was unacquainted with the art of writing before he ascended the mount , the possibility of collusion ...
... origin of the moral law , when these tables were presented to them , inscribed with mysterious and living characters ! If Moses himself was unacquainted with the art of writing before he ascended the mount , the possibility of collusion ...
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... origin , the author of so wonderful a discovery as that of alphabetical writing , should be so utterly lost in the remote ages of antiquity , that no man can specify the nation or even the era to which it can be attributed ? There is ...
... origin , the author of so wonderful a discovery as that of alphabetical writing , should be so utterly lost in the remote ages of antiquity , that no man can specify the nation or even the era to which it can be attributed ? There is ...
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... 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 the ...
... 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 the ...
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... origin , peculiarities and overthrow of the Hebrew State- the progress and decline of Canaan , Persia , and Media , are all familiar topics of biblical history . Ancient cities too - Thebes , the No - Ammi of Nahum -Nineveh , Jerusalem ...
... origin , peculiarities and overthrow of the Hebrew State- the progress and decline of Canaan , Persia , and Media , are all familiar topics of biblical history . Ancient cities too - Thebes , the No - Ammi of Nahum -Nineveh , Jerusalem ...
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... of the Deity could be consulted concerning him , and the other is the appointment of the cities of refuge for the manslayer . Though of ancient usage and origin , imprisonment did not originate with the law 66 LEGISLATIVE SCIENCE.
... of the Deity could be consulted concerning him , and the other is the appointment of the cities of refuge for the manslayer . Though of ancient usage and origin , imprisonment did not originate with the law 66 LEGISLATIVE SCIENCE.
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