The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge, 9. köideCharles Knight, 1838 |
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... mountain in belts . In various places , where the sunbeams occasionally pierce the woods and fall upon isolated or salient rocks in the above localities , they are seen in myriads , either poising themselves in the rays , or reposing on ...
... mountain in belts . In various places , where the sunbeams occasionally pierce the woods and fall upon isolated or salient rocks in the above localities , they are seen in myriads , either poising themselves in the rays , or reposing on ...
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... mountains lying in the circle of Sambor , in the Austrian kingdom of Galicia , and in about 49 ° N. lat . Within this kingdom the Dniester receives the Tismenica , Stry , Swica , Lomnica , and Bis- tritza , on its southern , and the ...
... mountains lying in the circle of Sambor , in the Austrian kingdom of Galicia , and in about 49 ° N. lat . Within this kingdom the Dniester receives the Tismenica , Stry , Swica , Lomnica , and Bis- tritza , on its southern , and the ...
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... mountains . Another spot of much note among the Transylvanians is Apafalva , the original seat of the Apasian princes , who governed all Transylvania from 1661 to 1713 . DOBREE , PETER PAUL , was born in the island of Guernsey in the ...
... mountains . Another spot of much note among the Transylvanians is Apafalva , the original seat of the Apasian princes , who governed all Transylvania from 1661 to 1713 . DOBREE , PETER PAUL , was born in the island of Guernsey in the ...
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... mountain and forest , whilst others hang about the villages , and though without owners , give tokens of a more social disposition , and are tolerated as the scavengers of the place , which they clear of disgusting incumbrances ...
... mountain and forest , whilst others hang about the villages , and though without owners , give tokens of a more social disposition , and are tolerated as the scavengers of the place , which they clear of disgusting incumbrances ...
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... mountains , gistrate was substituted , but the fifth of these was imprisoned about Thibet . Their masters , the Bhoteas , to whom they on some charge , and his eyes were put out , after which the are most strongly attached , are a ...
... mountains , gistrate was substituted , but the fifth of these was imprisoned about Thibet . Their masters , the Bhoteas , to whom they on some charge , and his eyes were put out , after which the are most strongly attached , are a ...
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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.
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