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... death , for the purpose of uphold- ing or promoting her ideas . She presents herself un- stained by cruelties and crimes . But in the Vatican- we have only to recall the Inquisition - the hands that are now raised in appeals to the Most ...
... death , for the purpose of uphold- ing or promoting her ideas . She presents herself un- stained by cruelties and crimes . But in the Vatican- we have only to recall the Inquisition - the hands that are now raised in appeals to the Most ...
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... death . They asserted that what had been believed by pious men in the old times , and had stood the test of ages , must necessarily be true . Then , as the opposing evidence became irresistible , they were content to admit that these ...
... death . They asserted that what had been believed by pious men in the old times , and had stood the test of ages , must necessarily be true . Then , as the opposing evidence became irresistible , they were content to admit that these ...
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... death of Cyrus on the battle - field of Cunaxa , it was demonstrated , by the immortal retreat of the ten thousand under Xenophon , that a Greek army could force its way to and from the heart of Persia . That reverence for the military ...
... death of Cyrus on the battle - field of Cunaxa , it was demonstrated , by the immortal retreat of the ten thousand under Xenophon , that a Greek army could force its way to and from the heart of Persia . That reverence for the military ...
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... death of the Persian monarch , which soon followed the defeat he suffered , left the Macedonian general master of all the countries from the Danube to the Indus . Eventually he extended his conquest to the Ganges . The treasures he ...
... death of the Persian monarch , which soon followed the defeat he suffered , left the Macedonian general master of all the countries from the Danube to the Indus . Eventually he extended his conquest to the Ganges . The treasures he ...
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... death - bed he caused his admiral , Near- chus , to sit by his side , and found consolation in listen- ing to the adventures of that sailor - the story of his voyage from the Indus up the Persian Gulf . The con- queror had seen with ...
... death - bed he caused his admiral , Near- chus , to sit by his side , and found consolation in listen- ing to the adventures of that sailor - the story of his voyage from the Indus up the Persian Gulf . The con- queror had seen with ...
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Page 251 - PREDESTINATION to Life is the everlasting purpose of God, whereby (before the foundations of the world were laid) he hath constantly decreed by his counsel secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation, as vessels made to honour.
Page 344 - Church holds to be sacred and canonical not because, having been carefully composed by mere human industry, they were afterwards approved by her authority, nor merely because they contain revelation, with no admixture of error, but because, having been written by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, they have God for their author, and have been delivered as such to the Church herself.
Page 373 - Boston Journal. ** This series is admirably commenced by this little volume from the pen of Prof. Tyndall. A perfect master of his subject, he presents in a style easy and attractive hb methods of investigation, and the results obtained, and gives to the reader a clear conception of all the wondrous transformations to which water is subjected.