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... term , and pyramids will tumble ; but these mountainous monuments may stand , and are like to have the same period with the earth . ” In the next , he answers two geographical questions ; one con- cerning Troas , mentioned in the Acts ...
... term , and pyramids will tumble ; but these mountainous monuments may stand , and are like to have the same period with the earth . ” In the next , he answers two geographical questions ; one con- cerning Troas , mentioned in the Acts ...
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... term , I meet with the following passage in D'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature , 2nd series , vol . ii . 425 : - " This faculty seems to be described by a remarkable expression employed by Thucydides in his character of Themistocles ...
... term , I meet with the following passage in D'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature , 2nd series , vol . ii . 425 : - " This faculty seems to be described by a remarkable expression employed by Thucydides in his character of Themistocles ...
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... term derived from the Greek and from archery , meaning , to shoot at a mark . ' This eminent genius , it seems , often hit the white . ' Our biographer declares , that " though he were no prophet , yet in that faculty , & c ...
... term derived from the Greek and from archery , meaning , to shoot at a mark . ' This eminent genius , it seems , often hit the white . ' Our biographer declares , that " though he were no prophet , yet in that faculty , & c ...
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... terms originally appropriated to one art , and drawn by violence into the service of another . He must , however , be ... term . : But his innovations are sometimes pleasing , and his temerities happy he has many " verba ardentia ...
... terms originally appropriated to one art , and drawn by violence into the service of another . He must , however , be ... term . : But his innovations are sometimes pleasing , and his temerities happy he has many " verba ardentia ...
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... terms which would have rendered him obnoxious to both parties , if " the liberty of those times had committed them to the press . " But let this pass as an idle speculation : it is just as useless to regret the want of these materials ...
... terms which would have rendered him obnoxious to both parties , if " the liberty of those times had committed them to the press . " But let this pass as an idle speculation : it is just as useless to regret the want of these materials ...
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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.