Sacred History of the World: Attempted to be Philosophically Considered, in a Series of Letters to a Son, Volume 3, Issue 84Harper, 1844 |
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... occurred anywhere.- The more probable Rate shown in the late Increases of our own Population . - In Russia a similar Gradation . Also in Prussia and Lithuania LETTER XI . 74 The Populations of the World are all in different States ...
... occurred anywhere.- The more probable Rate shown in the late Increases of our own Population . - In Russia a similar Gradation . Also in Prussia and Lithuania LETTER XI . 74 The Populations of the World are all in different States ...
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... occur in England and in several other Countries Page 123 LETTER XV . Other Laws of Death . - Mortality increases as Births increase . -Apparent Connexion between the Times of their occurrence . -Relations between Death and the Price of ...
... occur in England and in several other Countries Page 123 LETTER XV . Other Laws of Death . - Mortality increases as Births increase . -Apparent Connexion between the Times of their occurrence . -Relations between Death and the Price of ...
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... occurring and changing by no rule or for any projected or pursued end : If we thus estimate and regard the world we live in , and the course and state of things about us , we shall be per- petually misconceiving and misrepresenting them ...
... occurring and changing by no rule or for any projected or pursued end : If we thus estimate and regard the world we live in , and the course and state of things about us , we shall be per- petually misconceiving and misrepresenting them ...
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... occurs between man and man will serve to il- lustrate what is always taking place between us and God . His presence is everywhere in effect ; his plans guide , his mind actuates , his will governs all things ; his purposes limit and ...
... occurs between man and man will serve to il- lustrate what is always taking place between us and God . His presence is everywhere in effect ; his plans guide , his mind actuates , his will governs all things ; his purposes limit and ...
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... our increase and our subsistence occur under the gov- ernment , and according to the regulations of a presiding and VOL . III . - E * 1836-7 . conscious Deity , will preserve us from those unmanly fears OF THE WORLD . 49.
... our increase and our subsistence occur under the gov- ernment , and according to the regulations of a presiding and VOL . III . - E * 1836-7 . conscious Deity , will preserve us from those unmanly fears OF THE WORLD . 49.
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Page 411 - 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 434 - Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself...
Page 410 - 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 396 - And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall, he corrupt by flatteries ; but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.
Page 435 - 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 413 - 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 415 - 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. And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it ; if it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
Page 429 - 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.
Page 440 - As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria ; shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
Page 444 - Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.