An Historical and Critical Dictionary, Volume 2Hunt and Clarke, 1826 - 438 pages |
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... tion , the amphitheatre had no symmetry . It is there- fore better to compare this with a wood of lofty trees , wherein those that reach nearer the clouds are mixed with those that do not reach so high . However it be , the preachers ...
... tion , the amphitheatre had no symmetry . It is there- fore better to compare this with a wood of lofty trees , wherein those that reach nearer the clouds are mixed with those that do not reach so high . However it be , the preachers ...
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... tion , the amphitheatre had no symmetry . It is there- fore better to compare this with a wood of lofty trees , wherein those that reach nearer the clouds are mixed with those that do not reach so high . However it be , the preachers ...
... tion , the amphitheatre had no symmetry . It is there- fore better to compare this with a wood of lofty trees , wherein those that reach nearer the clouds are mixed with those that do not reach so high . However it be , the preachers ...
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... tion , and by the credit they had with the queen , they might easily have evaded the challenge of the pro- phet Elijah . Besides , we see they invoked their Deity with the utmost ardour , and cut themselves with knives in honour of him ...
... tion , and by the credit they had with the queen , they might easily have evaded the challenge of the pro- phet Elijah . Besides , we see they invoked their Deity with the utmost ardour , and cut themselves with knives in honour of him ...
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... tion that could reasonably be establised by that me- thod was , that the happiness of man consists in being at his ease and in having a sense of pleasure , or in general , satisfaction of the mind . This does not prove that the ...
... tion that could reasonably be establised by that me- thod was , that the happiness of man consists in being at his ease and in having a sense of pleasure , or in general , satisfaction of the mind . This does not prove that the ...
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... tion which has been regulated and determined by the nature of things , and by that necessity to which all that exists by itself owes its existence ? Is it not necessarily to last a whole eternity ? And is not EPICURUS . 37.
... tion which has been regulated and determined by the nature of things , and by that necessity to which all that exists by itself owes its existence ? Is it not necessarily to last a whole eternity ? And is not EPICURUS . 37.
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