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... seduced by all the magnificence of his own discoveries , he had a solidity of mind which could resist their fascination ; and keep him in steady attachment to that book , whose general evidences stamped upon it the impress of a real ...
... seduced by all the magnificence of his own discoveries , he had a solidity of mind which could resist their fascination ; and keep him in steady attachment to that book , whose general evidences stamped upon it the impress of a real ...
Page 66
... seduce him from his path . Sure I am , that , in the prosecution of his wonderful career , he found himself on a way beset with temptation upon every side of him . It was not merely that he had the reigning taste and philosophy of the ...
... seduce him from his path . Sure I am , that , in the prosecution of his wonderful career , he found himself on a way beset with temptation upon every side of him . It was not merely that he had the reigning taste and philosophy of the ...
Page 86
... seduced from the ground he had taken , by any of those brillian- cies , which have since led so many of his hum- bler successors into the track of Infidelity . He had measured the distances of these planets . He had 86.
... seduced from the ground he had taken , by any of those brillian- cies , which have since led so many of his hum- bler successors into the track of Infidelity . He had measured the distances of these planets . He had 86.
Page 92
... seducing brilliancy around it ; and spurns the Bible , with all the doctrine , and all the piety of the Bible , away from it ; and has infused the spirit of Antichrist into many of the literary establishments of the age ; but it is not ...
... seducing brilliancy around it ; and spurns the Bible , with all the doctrine , and all the piety of the Bible , away from it ; and has infused the spirit of Antichrist into many of the literary establishments of the age ; but it is not ...
Page 99
... seduced by a complacency which he never felt , and inflated by a pride which never en tered into his pious and philosophical bosom , and whose only notice of the Bible , is to depre- ciate , and to deride , and to disown it . Before ...
... seduced by a complacency which he never felt , and inflated by a pride which never en tered into his pious and philosophical bosom , and whose only notice of the Bible , is to depre- ciate , and to deride , and to disown it . Before ...
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