The British CriticF. and C. Rivington, 1826 |
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... never was a time when the Iliad would not be thought a sublime poem , and the Apollo Belvedere a beautiful statue : but although there are some principles of taste , upon which all persons and all ages are agreed , yet it is certain ...
... never was a time when the Iliad would not be thought a sublime poem , and the Apollo Belvedere a beautiful statue : but although there are some principles of taste , upon which all persons and all ages are agreed , yet it is certain ...
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... never satisfy the inquisitive mind , which meets with sangui- nary persecution in one chapter , and in the next finds the whole Roman Empire converted to Christianity . The causes which led to so great a change can only be traced by ...
... never satisfy the inquisitive mind , which meets with sangui- nary persecution in one chapter , and in the next finds the whole Roman Empire converted to Christianity . The causes which led to so great a change can only be traced by ...
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... never read the works of Tertullian , and has no intention of reading them , it is obvious that such a minute analysis will weary him ; and if he took up the book , as we did ourselves , expecting to find in it a history of the Christian ...
... never read the works of Tertullian , and has no intention of reading them , it is obvious that such a minute analysis will weary him ; and if he took up the book , as we did ourselves , expecting to find in it a history of the Christian ...
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... never- theless true , that the value of Tertullian's writings to the theolo- gical student , arises in a great measure from his errors . he became a Montanist , he set himself to expose what he deemed faulty in the practice and ...
... never- theless true , that the value of Tertullian's writings to the theolo- gical student , arises in a great measure from his errors . he became a Montanist , he set himself to expose what he deemed faulty in the practice and ...
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... never have expected to find the different doctrines examined in this very technical manner ; and whatever we may think of such a plan in a printed book , there surely could not have been a more unin- teresting method invented for public ...
... never have expected to find the different doctrines examined in this very technical manner ; and whatever we may think of such a plan in a printed book , there surely could not have been a more unin- teresting method invented for public ...
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