The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge, 9. köideCharles Knight, 1838 |
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... antient history so obscure and uncertain as that of Rome . With all his study and research , Dionysius was so imperfectly acquainted with the Roman constitution that he often mis- represents the plainest statements about it . ( Niebuhr ...
... antient history so obscure and uncertain as that of Rome . With all his study and research , Dionysius was so imperfectly acquainted with the Roman constitution that he often mis- represents the plainest statements about it . ( Niebuhr ...
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... antient than that first mentioned , and three others are preserved at Leyden . The first edition of the Greek text of Dioscorides , was published by Aldus at Venice , in 1499 , fol . A far better one is that of Paris , 1549 , in 8vo ...
... antient than that first mentioned , and three others are preserved at Leyden . The first edition of the Greek text of Dioscorides , was published by Aldus at Venice , in 1499 , fol . A far better one is that of Paris , 1549 , in 8vo ...
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... antient documents of a public or political character , and especially of the determination of their au- thenticity and their age . But the adjective , diplomatic , is usually applied to things or persons connected , not with diplomatics ...
... antient documents of a public or political character , and especially of the determination of their au- thenticity and their age . But the adjective , diplomatic , is usually applied to things or persons connected , not with diplomatics ...
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... antient nations , the form , the material , and the mode of using the divining rod of the modern miners and water - finders , seem to be superstitions of comparatively recent introduction . Many persons with some pretensions to science ...
... antient nations , the form , the material , and the mode of using the divining rod of the modern miners and water - finders , seem to be superstitions of comparatively recent introduction . Many persons with some pretensions to science ...
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... antient tra- ditions of deluges and other catastrophes may be founded on fact . ' The fluidity of the central part of the globe , and its con- nection with the active volcanos , affords a plausible theory of earthquakes , and ...
... antient tra- ditions of deluges and other catastrophes may be founded on fact . ' The fluidity of the central part of the globe , and its con- nection with the active volcanos , affords a plausible theory of earthquakes , and ...
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Page 42 - He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
Page 42 - When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her : then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give to It in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Page 143 - ... if that indeed can be called composition in which all the images rose up before him as things, with a parallel production of the correspondent expressions, without any sensation or consciousness of effort.
Page 59 - An Epistolary Discourse, proving, from the Scriptures and the first Fathers, that the Soul is a Principle naturally mortal, but immortalized actually by the pleasure of God, to Punishment, or to Reward, by its Union with the Divine Baptismal Spirit. Wherein is proved, that none have the Power of giving this Divine Immortalizing Spirit, since the Apostles, but only the Bishops.
Page 296 - ... and used to meet with them to pray together. I experienced I know not what kind of delight in religion. My mind was much engaged in it, and had much self-righteous pleasure; and it was my delight to abound in religious duties. I with some of my schoolmates joined together, and built a booth in a swamp, in a very retired spot, for a place of prayer.
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Page 296 - ... extraordinary influence of God's Spirit in it; but only that now I saw further, and my reason apprehended the justice and reasonableness of it. However, my mind rested in it; and it put an end to all those cavils and objections. And there has been a wonderful alteration in my mind, with respect to the doctrine of God's sovereignty, from that day to this...
Page 296 - ... From my childhood up, my mind had been full of objections against the doctrine of God's sovereignty, in choosing whom he would to eternal life, and rejecting whom he pleased; leaving them eternally to perish, and be everlastingly tormented in hell. It used to appear like a horrible doctrine to me.
Page 168 - University," under the style and title of the " College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity near Dublin, founded by Queen Elizabeth.
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