Lectures, Delivered at Bowdoin College: And Occasional SermonsJoseph Griffin, 1822 - 411 pages |
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... passage in Plato's Timaeus , as quot- ed by Dr. Leland . " The poet cannot sing , " says the Greek philosopher , " except he be full of God , and carried out of himself . " They do not say these things by art , but by a divine power ...
... passage in Plato's Timaeus , as quot- ed by Dr. Leland . " The poet cannot sing , " says the Greek philosopher , " except he be full of God , and carried out of himself . " They do not say these things by art , but by a divine power ...
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... passage , strik- ingly adapted to our present purpose . Speaking of Jupiter , O'er gods and mortals , o'er the dreary plains , And shadowy ghosts supremely just he reigns . But , dreadful in his wrath , to hell pursued With thunders ...
... passage , strik- ingly adapted to our present purpose . Speaking of Jupiter , O'er gods and mortals , o'er the dreary plains , And shadowy ghosts supremely just he reigns . But , dreadful in his wrath , to hell pursued With thunders ...
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... passages compared , serve to verify a re- mark of Dr. Robertson , that hundreds even thousands of years have done little towards changing the Indians , either in their customs or character . It is not improper here to mention the custom ...
... passages compared , serve to verify a re- mark of Dr. Robertson , that hundreds even thousands of years have done little towards changing the Indians , either in their customs or character . It is not improper here to mention the custom ...
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... passage in the Lacedæmonian history , which clearly shows how much reason the Helots had to complain , not only of the cruelty , but also of the perfidy of their masters . When , in the midst of the Peloponesian war , 50 LECTURE IV . VI ...
... passage in the Lacedæmonian history , which clearly shows how much reason the Helots had to complain , not only of the cruelty , but also of the perfidy of their masters . When , in the midst of the Peloponesian war , 50 LECTURE IV . VI ...
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... passage , contained in his fifth book of Tusculan questions , appears to have considered the Greeks , as gen- erally ... passages in the writings of Tully , but especially from the Satires of Juvenal . The same abominations are now ...
... passage , contained in his fifth book of Tusculan questions , appears to have considered the Greeks , as gen- erally ... passages in the writings of Tully , but especially from the Satires of Juvenal . The same abominations are now ...
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Page 176 - Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come.
Page 323 - And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
Page 252 - ... 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 169 - ... backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful ; who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do. them.
Page 298 - And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice, saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God.
Page 377 - To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me on my throne ; even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father on His throne.
Page 142 - If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father: and he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but for the sins of the whole world,
Page 141 - But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement of our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.
Page 97 - And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Page 166 - And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.