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Page xliii
... remarkable passage : - Methinks there be not impossibilities enough in religion for an active faith . I can answer all the objections of Satan and my rebellious reason , with that odd resolution I learned of Tertullian , Certum est ...
... remarkable passage : - Methinks there be not impossibilities enough in religion for an active faith . I can answer all the objections of Satan and my rebellious reason , with that odd resolution I learned of Tertullian , Certum est ...
Page xlviii
... remarkable feature in his plan is , however , very evident , that he did not keep them at home ; but endeavoured to form them to habits of independence , and to give them , in a wide sense , a knowledge of the world , by sending them ...
... remarkable feature in his plan is , however , very evident , that he did not keep them at home ; but endeavoured to form them to habits of independence , and to give them , in a wide sense , a knowledge of the world , by sending them ...
Page xlix
... remarkable , " to cast off pudor rusticus , " to put on a commendable boldness , " and to " have a good handsome garb of his body . " It is , moreover , to be especially observed , how earnestly he enjoins him to " hold firm to the ...
... remarkable , " to cast off pudor rusticus , " to put on a commendable boldness , " and to " have a good handsome garb of his body . " It is , moreover , to be especially observed , how earnestly he enjoins him to " hold firm to the ...
Page liv
... remarkable of these , I cannot help observing , that the striking influence which has sometimes been exerted on the institutions , the history , or the character of an entire age , by the genius of one man , or the importance of a ...
... remarkable of these , I cannot help observing , that the striking influence which has sometimes been exerted on the institutions , the history , or the character of an entire age , by the genius of one man , or the importance of a ...
Page lviii
... remarkable that he has never recorded it , and only once made a slight allusion to it , in his Repertorium ; where , among royal visits to Norwich , he mentions that of Charles II . , adding , " of which I had parti- cular reason to ...
... remarkable that he has never recorded it , and only once made a slight allusion to it , in his Repertorium ; where , among royal visits to Norwich , he mentions that of Charles II . , adding , " of which I had parti- cular reason to ...
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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.