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Page 153
... learning on which we value ourselves they re- gard as frivolous and useless . An instance of this occurred at the treaty of Lancaster , in Pennsylvania , anno 1744 , between the government of Virginia and the Six Nations . After the ...
... learning on which we value ourselves they re- gard as frivolous and useless . An instance of this occurred at the treaty of Lancaster , in Pennsylvania , anno 1744 , between the government of Virginia and the Six Nations . After the ...
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... learning and philosophy , it being more agree- able to the designs of the Gospel to confound the wisdom and learning of the world by the plain doctrine of the cross . These were great accomplishments , and yet but a shadow to that ...
... learning and philosophy , it being more agree- able to the designs of the Gospel to confound the wisdom and learning of the world by the plain doctrine of the cross . These were great accomplishments , and yet but a shadow to that ...
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... learning . Then did Erasmus take occasion to make the scoffing echo ; " Decem annos consumpsi in legendo Cicerone ; " and the echo answered in Greek " Ovs , " Asine . ” Then grew the learning of the schoolmen to be utterly despised as ...
... learning . Then did Erasmus take occasion to make the scoffing echo ; " Decem annos consumpsi in legendo Cicerone ; " and the echo answered in Greek " Ovs , " Asine . ” Then grew the learning of the schoolmen to be utterly despised as ...
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DAY SUBJECT 119 Of Improving by good Examples | 5 |
Primitive Christians | 9 |
Summer | 14 |
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