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... opinion , that any thing can be " almost eternal , " or that any time beginning and ending is not infinitely less than infinite duration . 0 * Digby's Letter to Browne . nor was this invective , & c . ] Yet the style of this admonition ...
... opinion , that any thing can be " almost eternal , " or that any time beginning and ending is not infinitely less than infinite duration . 0 * Digby's Letter to Browne . nor was this invective , & c . ] Yet the style of this admonition ...
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... opinion , that the Spaniards have retained so much Latin , as to be able to compose sentences that shall be at once grammati- cally Latin and Castilian : this will appear very unlikely to a man that considers the Spanish terminations ...
... opinion , that the Spaniards have retained so much Latin , as to be able to compose sentences that shall be at once grammati- cally Latin and Castilian : this will appear very unlikely to a man that considers the Spanish terminations ...
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... opinion of these men , to efface a name from the lists of Christianity , to exclude a soul from everlasting life ... opinions , and yet all may retain the essentials of Christianity ; men may sometimes eagerly dispute , and yet not ...
... opinion of these men , to efface a name from the lists of Christianity , to exclude a soul from everlasting life ... opinions , and yet all may retain the essentials of Christianity ; men may sometimes eagerly dispute , and yet not ...
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... with remembrance and specu- lations on the past ; curious , probably , in casting the fashion of uncertain evil , and , therefore , little inclined to innovation . He was at once Sir opinion on the contrary , I am persuaded , that.
... with remembrance and specu- lations on the past ; curious , probably , in casting the fashion of uncertain evil , and , therefore , little inclined to innovation . He was at once Sir opinion on the contrary , I am persuaded , that.
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sir Thomas Browne Simon Wilkin. opinion on the contrary , I am persuaded , that his social deport- ment must have ... opinions relating to the political aspect of affairs in his own country , which his subsequent position , especially ...
sir Thomas Browne Simon Wilkin. opinion on the contrary , I am persuaded , that his social deport- ment must have ... opinions relating to the political aspect of affairs in his own country , which his subsequent position , especially ...
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Page xxxviii - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions, hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Page 348 - And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Page 31 - Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, and saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down ; for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Page 433 - So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.