The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester: To which is Prefixed a Discourse by Way of General Preface, Containing Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author, Volume 4 |
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Page 85
... alphabetic unongst the ancients , as Plato and with the wonderful artifice of an urs de l'écriture Chinoise , en s'attachant à rapport d'institution avec les choses sig- de la nation Chinoise ; qui même avant la plus profonde antiquité ...
... alphabetic unongst the ancients , as Plato and with the wonderful artifice of an urs de l'écriture Chinoise , en s'attachant à rapport d'institution avec les choses sig- de la nation Chinoise ; qui même avant la plus profonde antiquité ...
Page 125
... alphabetic writing . We may observe , that substances , and all visible objects , were at first very naturally expressed by the images of the things them- selves ; as moral modes and other ideal conceptions of the mind were more aptly ...
... alphabetic writing . We may observe , that substances , and all visible objects , were at first very naturally expressed by the images of the things them- selves ; as moral modes and other ideal conceptions of the mind were more aptly ...
Page 128
... alphabetic characters ; but never can be hieroglyphics . However , it is but justice to these learned Fathers to observe , that one of thein , from whom the others might have profited , appears to have a much clearer concep- tion of ...
... alphabetic characters ; but never can be hieroglyphics . However , it is but justice to these learned Fathers to observe , that one of thein , from whom the others might have profited , appears to have a much clearer concep- tion of ...
Page 133
... alphabetic letters , made some amongst the ancients , as Plato and Tully , when struck with the wonderful artifice of an Les premiers inventeurs de l'écriture Chinoise , en s'attachant à des signes , qui n'ont qu'un rapport d ...
... alphabetic letters , made some amongst the ancients , as Plato and Tully , when struck with the wonderful artifice of an Les premiers inventeurs de l'écriture Chinoise , en s'attachant à des signes , qui n'ont qu'un rapport d ...
Page 139
... alphabetic letters , so from the Simile , o make language still more expedite and elegant , came he METAPHOR ; which is indeed but a Simile in little : or men so conversant in matter still wanted sensible mages to convey abstract ideas ...
... alphabetic letters , so from the Simile , o make language still more expedite and elegant , came he METAPHOR ; which is indeed but a Simile in little : or men so conversant in matter still wanted sensible mages to convey abstract ideas ...
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Page 440 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 17 - For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
Page 289 - Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt . And he set the one in Beth-el, and the other put he in Dan.
Page 19 - And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
Page 258 - God shall choose one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother. But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the Lord hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.
Page 287 - And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey ? were it not better for us to return into Egypt ? And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
Page 291 - Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall; and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
Page 135 - Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees ? Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us.
Page 282 - And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the Lord : and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
Page 299 - If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day? 24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.