A philosophical dictionary, from the Fr. [by J.G. Gurton].1824 |
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... human events nothing can be more natural or common ; but as usually no registers are kept of such cases ; as those interesting intimacies between the directors and directed do not take place before witnesses , and as Gregory has been ...
... human events nothing can be more natural or common ; but as usually no registers are kept of such cases ; as those interesting intimacies between the directors and directed do not take place before witnesses , and as Gregory has been ...
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... human life . And , as in ancient times , every hero had his dog to guard his gate , so was Pluto attended and guarded by an immense dog with three heads ; for everything , it seems , was to be done by threes . Of the three privy ...
... human life . And , as in ancient times , every hero had his dog to guard his gate , so was Pluto attended and guarded by an immense dog with three heads ; for everything , it seems , was to be done by threes . Of the three privy ...
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... human species , and seems to constitute the very foundation of our nature , at the very time when Cicero publicly declared , that " not even an old woman was to be found who believed in such absurdities , " Lucretius admitted that these ...
... human species , and seems to constitute the very foundation of our nature , at the very time when Cicero publicly declared , that " not even an old woman was to be found who believed in such absurdities , " Lucretius admitted that these ...
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... human vice , so necessary to the virtue and happiness of mankind - the doctrine of hell ; and yet you do not explicitly announce it ; and , while it is admitted by all the nations which surround you , you are content to leave it for ...
... human vice , so necessary to the virtue and happiness of mankind - the doctrine of hell ; and yet you do not explicitly announce it ; and , while it is admitted by all the nations which surround you , you are content to leave it for ...
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... human nature , and others expressly inflicted by the hand of God . But , in return , we should point out to such a reasoner the absurdity of considering fever and hail- stones in some cases as divine punishments ; in others as mere ...
... human nature , and others expressly inflicted by the hand of God . But , in return , we should point out to such a reasoner the absurdity of considering fever and hail- stones in some cases as divine punishments ; in others as mere ...
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Popular passages
Page 162 - And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.
Page 111 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell : but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Page 23 - And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off : it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched : 44 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Page 162 - Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not.
Page 22 - For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And shall burn unto the lowest hell, And shall consume the earth with her increase, And set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Page 22 - And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
Page 127 - We repeat there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.
Page 21 - They have moved me to Jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Page 244 - Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.