Lectures on the four last books of the Pentateuch1829 |
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... cause " eternal , self - existing but unperceived , becoming masculine from neuter , is " celebrated among all creatures by the name of Brahma ; that God having ❝ dwelled in the egg through revolving years , himself meditating on ...
... cause " eternal , self - existing but unperceived , becoming masculine from neuter , is " celebrated among all creatures by the name of Brahma ; that God having ❝ dwelled in the egg through revolving years , himself meditating on ...
Page xv
... cause why I have not attempted to comply with the suggestions of my very respec- table but certainly partial friends , is my inability to do so . The work they prescribe is on a subject of great importance and 46 poetry or mythology of ...
... cause why I have not attempted to comply with the suggestions of my very respec- table but certainly partial friends , is my inability to do so . The work they prescribe is on a subject of great importance and 46 poetry or mythology of ...
Page xvi
... causes of error I would earnestly warn my readers . Time was , when papal authority declared the theory of the earth's motion was so subversive of revealed religion , that the Jesuits , who commented on the Principia of Newton , pre ...
... causes of error I would earnestly warn my readers . Time was , when papal authority declared the theory of the earth's motion was so subversive of revealed religion , that the Jesuits , who commented on the Principia of Newton , pre ...
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... more certain facts : - 46 " Etna and Vesuvius resemble each other in the causes which produce * Vide Watson's Apology , in Letters to Mr. Gibbon , from p . 169 to 174 . b and much time ; and I have no prospect of INTRODUCTION . xvi.
... more certain facts : - 46 " Etna and Vesuvius resemble each other in the causes which produce * Vide Watson's Apology , in Letters to Mr. Gibbon , from p . 169 to 174 . b and much time ; and I have no prospect of INTRODUCTION . xvi.
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... cause of its destruc- " tion . These strata are either of lava or burnt matter , WITH VEINS OF GOOD " SOIL BETWEEN THEM . " See Sir William Hamilton's remarks upon the nature of the Soil of Naples and its neighbour- " hood , in the ...
... cause of its destruc- " tion . These strata are either of lava or burnt matter , WITH VEINS OF GOOD " SOIL BETWEEN THEM . " See Sir William Hamilton's remarks upon the nature of the Soil of Naples and its neighbour- " hood , in the ...
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Page 480 - And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night...
Page 339 - Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Page 293 - And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever : Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
Page 354 - I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight : I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron...
Page 104 - And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
Page 374 - Be wise now therefore, O ye kings : be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Page 357 - Is not this the fast that I have chosen ? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke ? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house ? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh...
Page 423 - Surely the isles shall wait for Me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the Name of the LORD thy GOD, and to the Holy One of Israel, because He hath glorified thee.
Page 404 - 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 358 - And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.