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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... - It is the Duty and Interest of Society to provide the Mechanism and the Means , that all who are in want of Em- ployment should be furnished with it 413 LETTER XLI . The Jewish Nation raised up for two X CONTENTS .
... - It is the Duty and Interest of Society to provide the Mechanism and the Means , that all who are in want of Em- ployment should be furnished with it 413 LETTER XLI . The Jewish Nation raised up for two X CONTENTS .
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... raised up for two main Purposes , which their History has accomplished . - The Elevation of it to be the Sovereign Empire of the World prevented by Solomon , Jeroboam , and the People establishing Paganism among them . - Their Division ...
... raised up for two main Purposes , which their History has accomplished . - The Elevation of it to be the Sovereign Empire of the World prevented by Solomon , Jeroboam , and the People establishing Paganism among them . - Their Division ...
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... which we cannot stop steadily advances , and urges all into the invisible current . There is a generous am- bition in many of raising both their own mind and that of others to a nobler character , and of effecting this 20 THE SACRED ...
... which we cannot stop steadily advances , and urges all into the invisible current . There is a generous am- bition in many of raising both their own mind and that of others to a nobler character , and of effecting this 20 THE SACRED ...
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... raise the slave from this degraded condition ; but his plans met with a decided opposition from the principal boiars in the empire , and since his death no attempt has been made by government to further his enlightened purposes ...
... raise the slave from this degraded condition ; but his plans met with a decided opposition from the principal boiars in the empire , and since his death no attempt has been made by government to further his enlightened purposes ...
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... raise either wheat , oats , or rye , nor any bread - corn , except the barley of Siberia . - For . Quart . Rev. , No. 26 , p . 275 . VOL . III . - L suits both the local and general plans of Providence that OF THE WORLD . 121.
... raise either wheat , oats , or rye , nor any bread - corn , except the barley of Siberia . - For . Quart . Rev. , No. 26 , p . 275 . VOL . III . - L suits both the local and general plans of Providence that OF THE WORLD . 121.
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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.