The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volumen9David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler F.P. Kaiser, 1900 - 4190 páginas |
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... mean , how contemptible are they compared with the Scriptures ! Is it possible that a book , at once so simple and sublime , should be merely the work of man ? Is it possible that the sacred personage , whose history it contains ...
... mean , how contemptible are they compared with the Scriptures ! Is it possible that a book , at once so simple and sublime , should be merely the work of man ? Is it possible that the sacred personage , whose history it contains ...
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... mean capacity or enlarged , it is necessary that communion with their Creator should be possible to all ; and the admission to such communion must be rested , not on their having a knowledge of astronomy , but on their having - - a the ...
... mean capacity or enlarged , it is necessary that communion with their Creator should be possible to all ; and the admission to such communion must be rested , not on their having a knowledge of astronomy , but on their having - - a the ...
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... mean that part of creation which holds equal companionship with our globe ; I understand the " rolling of these heavens together as a scroll , " to be an equal and relative destruction with the melting of the elements in fervent heat ...
... mean that part of creation which holds equal companionship with our globe ; I understand the " rolling of these heavens together as a scroll , " to be an equal and relative destruction with the melting of the elements in fervent heat ...
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... means us to acknowledge his own immediate pres- ence as visiting , judging , and blessing us : " The earth shook , the heavens also dropped at the presence of God . " " He doth set his bow in the clouds , " and thus renews , in the ...
... means us to acknowledge his own immediate pres- ence as visiting , judging , and blessing us : " The earth shook , the heavens also dropped at the presence of God . " " He doth set his bow in the clouds , " and thus renews , in the ...
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... means a proud state for a man to be in . But the man who has no invention is al- ways setting things in order , * and putting the world to rights , and mending , and beautifying , and pluming himself on his do- ings , as supreme in all ...
... means a proud state for a man to be in . But the man who has no invention is al- ways setting things in order , * and putting the world to rights , and mending , and beautifying , and pluming himself on his do- ings , as supreme in all ...
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