The Sacred History of the World: Attempted to be Philosophically Considered, in a Series of Letters to a Son, Volume 3Harper & Bros., 1838 |
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... that this was not an indispensable Condition of Human Existence .-- But , having been made the Law of it , we may be certain always of a sufficient Supply 271 LETTER XXIX . Indication of the present general Superabundance of viii CONTENTS .
... that this was not an indispensable Condition of Human Existence .-- But , having been made the Law of it , we may be certain always of a sufficient Supply 271 LETTER XXIX . Indication of the present general Superabundance of viii CONTENTS .
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... 6,000 years that he has never failed to keep our coexisting numbers and our sufficient subsistence in mutual fitness to each other . Never has nature become incompetent to supply the largest number 48 THE SACRED HISTORY.
... 6,000 years that he has never failed to keep our coexisting numbers and our sufficient subsistence in mutual fitness to each other . Never has nature become incompetent to supply the largest number 48 THE SACRED HISTORY.
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... supply the largest number of inhabitants which , during this long lapse of time , have been contemporaries of each other . Never have more human beings been on the earth than that earth , wherever duly cultivated by them , has always ...
... supply the largest number of inhabitants which , during this long lapse of time , have been contemporaries of each other . Never have more human beings been on the earth than that earth , wherever duly cultivated by them , has always ...
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... supplies from emi- gration is we may infer from the stated fact , that in the eight years from 1825 to 1832 there went to the United States , from Great Britain and Ireland ONLY , 136,812 persons . - Herts County Press , 12th Oct ...
... supplies from emi- gration is we may infer from the stated fact , that in the eight years from 1825 to 1832 there went to the United States , from Great Britain and Ireland ONLY , 136,812 persons . - Herts County Press , 12th Oct ...
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... supplies it . No one can surely think for a moment that the multipli- cation will ever be greater in a savage than in a civilized community ; nor in a demisavage one . And if it were , such a fact would be of no importance , and have no ...
... supplies it . No one can surely think for a moment that the multipli- cation will ever be greater in a savage than in a civilized community ; nor in a demisavage one . And if it were , such a fact would be of no importance , and have no ...
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Page 409 - That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee : shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
Page 436 - And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say : — " Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths :" for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Page 443 - I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool; his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.
Page 413 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Page 408 - And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do; seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him ? For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Page 411 - And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth...
Page 433 - Sing, O ye heavens; for the Lord hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
Page 437 - I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Page 439 - O Lord God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth ; thou hast made heaven and earth.
Page 427 - And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the Lord ; and they shall be afraid of thee.