Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, Volume 1J. Miller, 1809 |
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... Christ and Con- stantine . Nor was this general contagion in their ac- tions , and not in their writings : who is ... Christian faith to the Roman se- nate , that would tell them " how of the angels , " which he must needs mean those ...
... Christ and Con- stantine . Nor was this general contagion in their ac- tions , and not in their writings : who is ... Christian faith to the Roman se- nate , that would tell them " how of the angels , " which he must needs mean those ...
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... Christ suffered , that had long lain under the rubbish of old ruins ; ( a thing which the dis- ciples and kindred of ... christianity ; which , to the gorgeous solemnities of paganism , and the sense of the world's children , seemed ...
... Christ suffered , that had long lain under the rubbish of old ruins ; ( a thing which the dis- ciples and kindred of ... christianity ; which , to the gorgeous solemnities of paganism , and the sense of the world's children , seemed ...
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... Christ's gospel unfit any longer to hold their lordships acquaintance , unless the poor threadbare matron were put into better clothes : her chaste and modest vail , surrounded with celestial beams , they overlaid with wanton tresses ...
... Christ's gospel unfit any longer to hold their lordships acquaintance , unless the poor threadbare matron were put into better clothes : her chaste and modest vail , surrounded with celestial beams , they overlaid with wanton tresses ...
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... christian com- monwealths . They teach not , that to govern well , is to train up a nation in true wisdom and virtue , and that which springs from thence , magnanimity ( take heed of that ) , and that which is our beginning ...
... christian com- monwealths . They teach not , that to govern well , is to train up a nation in true wisdom and virtue , and that which springs from thence , magnanimity ( take heed of that ) , and that which is our beginning ...
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... christian personage , one mighty growth and sta- ture of an honest man , as big and compact in virtue as in body ; for look what the grounds and causes are of single happiness to one man , the same ye shall find them to a whole state ...
... christian personage , one mighty growth and sta- ture of an honest man , as big and compact in virtue as in body ; for look what the grounds and causes are of single happiness to one man , the same ye shall find them to a whole state ...
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