The British CriticF. and C. Rivington, 1826 |
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... seem to flow differently at different periods , and the popular modes of reasoning have been equally fluctuating . Thus we wonder how our forefathers could sit patiently through a sermon of two hours in length , and filled with ...
... seem to flow differently at different periods , and the popular modes of reasoning have been equally fluctuating . Thus we wonder how our forefathers could sit patiently through a sermon of two hours in length , and filled with ...
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... Now , if Lactantius could speak thus of a man who only lived one hundred years before him , it seems absurd for any one to assert in the present day , that Tertullian's style was a model of pure 8 Tertullian and the Miracles 38.
... Now , if Lactantius could speak thus of a man who only lived one hundred years before him , it seems absurd for any one to assert in the present day , that Tertullian's style was a model of pure 8 Tertullian and the Miracles 38.
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... over and above what is found in other MSS . , they agree ; which seems to furnish some external evidence , that Muratori's MS . contains the genuine conclusion of the work which was supposed of the Three First Centuries . 13.
... over and above what is found in other MSS . , they agree ; which seems to furnish some external evidence , that Muratori's MS . contains the genuine conclusion of the work which was supposed of the Three First Centuries . 13.
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... seems almost to have been ad- mitted as incontrovertible ; and perhaps one of the chief diffi- culties in discussing this question has arisen from the concession of the fact , that the miracles of every century are supported by ...
... seems almost to have been ad- mitted as incontrovertible ; and perhaps one of the chief diffi- culties in discussing this question has arisen from the concession of the fact , that the miracles of every century are supported by ...
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... seems to have con- sidered miraculous , were a few occurrences which befel some of the Christian martyrs . There is only one such event which he mentions as having witnessed with his own eyes . He says , that during the persecution ...
... seems to have con- sidered miraculous , were a few occurrences which befel some of the Christian martyrs . There is only one such event which he mentions as having witnessed with his own eyes . He says , that during the persecution ...
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