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... knowledge would die with them , if they had not an article in some modern quarterly , or monthly , or weekly , as a means of communication with the public . The periodicals have thus become enriched with contributions to the stock of ...
... knowledge would die with them , if they had not an article in some modern quarterly , or monthly , or weekly , as a means of communication with the public . The periodicals have thus become enriched with contributions to the stock of ...
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... familiar subjects of Christianity , I ought not to be sparing of labor and patience when pursuing investigations on the harmony between those two great depart- ments of knowledge , the Word and the Works of 10 PREFACE .
... familiar subjects of Christianity , I ought not to be sparing of labor and patience when pursuing investigations on the harmony between those two great depart- ments of knowledge , the Word and the Works of 10 PREFACE .
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In a Course of Lectures James McFarlane Mathews. ments of knowledge , the Word and the Works of God . Sincerely do I wish that the work I have before me was in abler hands than mine . I derive satisfaction from the hope that I shall be ...
In a Course of Lectures James McFarlane Mathews. ments of knowledge , the Word and the Works of God . Sincerely do I wish that the work I have before me was in abler hands than mine . I derive satisfaction from the hope that I shall be ...
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... knowledge and refinement in the free States of Italy , when they were liberated from tyranny ? There , it may be said , learning and art first raised their heads , after their fearful overthrow by the invasion of the northern barbarians ...
... knowledge and refinement in the free States of Italy , when they were liberated from tyranny ? There , it may be said , learning and art first raised their heads , after their fearful overthrow by the invasion of the northern barbarians ...
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... knowledge , refinement and high enter- prise for public good ; and you will see that just according as arbitrary power , whether in king or nobles , has been checked and over - ruled by the spirit of civil freedom in her people , her ...
... knowledge , refinement and high enter- prise for public good ; and you will see that just according as arbitrary power , whether in king or nobles , has been checked and over - ruled by the spirit of civil freedom in her people , her ...
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Page 56 - Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens...
Page 93 - The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, Make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, And every mountain and hill shall be made low: And the crooked shall be made straight, And the rough places plain: And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, And all flesh shall see it together: For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Page 13 - Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end, thus saith the Lord God ; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high. I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.
Page 98 - Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great ; and thou shalt be a blessing : And I will bless them that bless thee : and curse him that curseth thee : and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Page 265 - I have lived, Sir, a long time ; and, the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that GOD governs in the affairs of men. And, if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid ? We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that ' ' except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Page 73 - This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
Page 265 - I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men; and if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid ? We have been assured, sir, in the sacred writings, that ' except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Page 100 - Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shall keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills...
Page 125 - Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
Page 131 - And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart : and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.