The Athenian oracle; an entire collection of all the valuable questions and answers in the old Athenian mercuries, by a member of the Athenian society [J. Dunton, ed. by S. Wesley]. |
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... Fire ; So Form did Chaos , Light the Dark expel , As Athens Rome , and Rome the World excel : The Ufurping Troops , by their own Guilt fubdu'd , Fled from th approaching dawn , while none purfu'd . The enlighin'd World new Altars gladly ...
... Fire ; So Form did Chaos , Light the Dark expel , As Athens Rome , and Rome the World excel : The Ufurping Troops , by their own Guilt fubdu'd , Fled from th approaching dawn , while none purfu'd . The enlighin'd World new Altars gladly ...
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... fire your Jpeedy Anfæer , being your , but the manner of it being Poli tical , the Law takes Cognizance of it ; but as for the Matter of Fact when once done , God Al- mighty who is invoked as a Witnefs , and who himself was the firft ...
... fire your Jpeedy Anfæer , being your , but the manner of it being Poli tical , the Law takes Cognizance of it ; but as for the Matter of Fact when once done , God Al- mighty who is invoked as a Witnefs , and who himself was the firft ...
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... fire , bounded by the Rules of Ho- Defire ; ' tis warm enough to keep nour and Virtue : There must be Friendship from an Ague , but not Friendship in ' , which may be fo furiously bot as to fet all on Fire . call'd the Spirit or Soul of ...
... fire , bounded by the Rules of Ho- Defire ; ' tis warm enough to keep nour and Virtue : There must be Friendship from an Ague , but not Friendship in ' , which may be fo furiously bot as to fet all on Fire . call'd the Spirit or Soul of ...
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... fire to please , fo we'd not Advise a- ny to use it unless for Ends that are certainly defenfible and lawful , among ft which we think are getting a good Husband , or keep- ing him when once obtain'd . Q. ' Tis my Misfortune to be Red ...
... fire to please , fo we'd not Advise a- ny to use it unless for Ends that are certainly defenfible and lawful , among ft which we think are getting a good Husband , or keep- ing him when once obtain'd . Q. ' Tis my Misfortune to be Red ...
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... Fires never went out , and un- Which put him into fo great a Defpair , that he defign'd to Starve himself to Death ; which furious Refolution obliged thofe which were about him to open his Jaws with a Gag , to make him take Nourishment ...
... Fires never went out , and un- Which put him into fo great a Defpair , that he defign'd to Starve himself to Death ; which furious Refolution obliged thofe which were about him to open his Jaws with a Gag , to make him take Nourishment ...
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Page 447 - All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Page 505 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Page 126 - Feajl, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of Malice and wickednefs, but with the unleavened Bread 'of Sincerity and Truth.
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Page 202 - And whereon can that be grounded , or how afcertain'd, without fome Principles to which a laft Appeal may be made ? Particularly that we have mention'd, That a thing can be, and not be, at the fame time ; which if not granted, overthrows all Science as well as Reafon : Again, What Traffick or Commerce cou'd there be in the World, what dealings between Man and Man, without that moral Principle, Do...
Page 536 - ... or promife, made by any other, without my knowledge or confent. So help me God through Jefus Chrift.