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Page 16
... there is scarce a fable to be found in the my- thologies of ancient times without a " moral , " which can be traced back to some revelation previously derived from the true God . Accordingly we con- sider 16 INTRODUCTORY LECTURE .
... there is scarce a fable to be found in the my- thologies of ancient times without a " moral , " which can be traced back to some revelation previously derived from the true God . Accordingly we con- sider 16 INTRODUCTORY LECTURE .
Page 17
In a Course of Lectures James McFarlane Mathews. derived from the true God . Accordingly we con- sider these fictions or fables respecting the origin of civil laws as another acknowledgment of the truth so conspicuously repeated in the ...
In a Course of Lectures James McFarlane Mathews. derived from the true God . Accordingly we con- sider these fictions or fables respecting the origin of civil laws as another acknowledgment of the truth so conspicuously repeated in the ...
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... True , it is a haughty monarch , glorying in his uncontrolled and unlimited sovereignty , who stands as the recorded example of such guilt and of its consequences . But in a land where every one feels that the sovereignty belongs to the ...
... True , it is a haughty monarch , glorying in his uncontrolled and unlimited sovereignty , who stands as the recorded example of such guilt and of its consequences . But in a land where every one feels that the sovereignty belongs to the ...
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... true perception of public freedom . A community that is chiefly employed in commerce , will require laws very different from those adapted to the welfare of a people who ex- pend their main strength in agriculture . But , not ...
... true perception of public freedom . A community that is chiefly employed in commerce , will require laws very different from those adapted to the welfare of a people who ex- pend their main strength in agriculture . But , not ...
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... a higher source . Jethro was both a wise man and a worshipper of the true God ; and feeling that the in- troduction of such a magistracy as he recommended was a measure of vast importance to the nation , 56 SECOND LECTURE .
... a higher source . Jethro was both a wise man and a worshipper of the true God ; and feeling that the in- troduction of such a magistracy as he recommended was a measure of vast importance to the nation , 56 SECOND LECTURE .
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