The Monthly Messenger: A Repository of Information : Comprising Original Articles on Various Subjects, and Select and Elegant Extracts from the Writings of Both Ancient and Modern Authors : Interspersed Wih Remarks Critical and Explanatory |
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... believe that instead of enlightening the human intellect and stimulating it to investigate its most im- portant interests , they do little more than bewilder it in a chaos of vapid and baseless speculation.§ What- ever appears to them ...
... believe that instead of enlightening the human intellect and stimulating it to investigate its most im- portant interests , they do little more than bewilder it in a chaos of vapid and baseless speculation.§ What- ever appears to them ...
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... believe that the sacred writers meant liter- ally , that the God of the universe was cooped up in a temple at Jerusalem , or anywhere else . " — Ibid . , p . 123 . " Who indeed that has any just notions of the supreme Being , can believe ...
... believe that the sacred writers meant liter- ally , that the God of the universe was cooped up in a temple at Jerusalem , or anywhere else . " — Ibid . , p . 123 . " Who indeed that has any just notions of the supreme Being , can believe ...
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... believe in the minor deities . " Socrates , " says Xenophon , " considered that gods know all things . The things which - verse the unchangeable- the everlasting the I am- astride on a cherub , ( a mon- strous animal , ) flying over the ...
... believe in the minor deities . " Socrates , " says Xenophon , " considered that gods know all things . The things which - verse the unchangeable- the everlasting the I am- astride on a cherub , ( a mon- strous animal , ) flying over the ...
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... believe the words of Calmet . These customs are alluded to in Isa . chap . lxi . ver . 10 . Καὶ εὐφροσύνη εὐφρανθήσονται ἐπὶ κύριον . Αγαλλιάθω ἡ ψυχή μου ἐπὶ τῷ κυρίω · ἐνέδυσε γάρ με ἱμάτιον σωτηρίου , καὶ χιτῶνα εὐφροσύνης ὡς νυμφίῳ ...
... believe the words of Calmet . These customs are alluded to in Isa . chap . lxi . ver . 10 . Καὶ εὐφροσύνη εὐφρανθήσονται ἐπὶ κύριον . Αγαλλιάθω ἡ ψυχή μου ἐπὶ τῷ κυρίω · ἐνέδυσε γάρ με ἱμάτιον σωτηρίου , καὶ χιτῶνα εὐφροσύνης ὡς νυμφίῳ ...
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... believe that the souls of men migrate at death into other bodies ; from whence originates their clemency to animals . However pure the religion of Budha may have been at first , there is , nevertheless , tolerably valid proof that it ...
... believe that the souls of men migrate at death into other bodies ; from whence originates their clemency to animals . However pure the religion of Budha may have been at first , there is , nevertheless , tolerably valid proof that it ...
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Page 36 - In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God : he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears. Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
Page 36 - Thou canst not see my face : for there shall no man see me,
Page 17 - O how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields ? The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields...
Page 37 - And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day : and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
Page 107 - And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
Page 44 - I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God ; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
Page 36 - He bowed the heavens also, and came down : and darkness was under his feet. And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly : yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Page 213 - And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth...
Page 214 - And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shall not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life...
Page 25 - ... robes. Reasoners of such a temper were scarcely inclined to wrangle about their respective modes of faith, or of worship. It was indifferent to them what shape the folly of the multitude might choose to assume ; and they approached, with the same inward contempt, and the same external reverence, the altars of the Libyan, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter.