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... Early Rising , addressed to Heads of Families , the Man of Business , the Lover of Nature , the Student , and the Christian . VII . Elements of Political Economy . By James Mill , Esq . VIII . TRAVELS IN PALESTINE . IX . 72 102 - 140 ...
... Early Rising , addressed to Heads of Families , the Man of Business , the Lover of Nature , the Student , and the Christian . VII . Elements of Political Economy . By James Mill , Esq . VIII . TRAVELS IN PALESTINE . IX . 72 102 - 140 ...
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... early Roman historians is irreparable . Cato the censor * had devoted one entire book of history to inquiries concerning the origin and peopling of the old towns of Italy . Diodorus the Sicilian , Dionysius , and Dio , who ex- plored ...
... early Roman historians is irreparable . Cato the censor * had devoted one entire book of history to inquiries concerning the origin and peopling of the old towns of Italy . Diodorus the Sicilian , Dionysius , and Dio , who ex- plored ...
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... early as the twelfth century , amused , with their romances and fabliaux , princes at their courts , noblemen in their castles , and warriors on their crusades : but it was in the next age that the Italian idiom acquired shape and ...
... early as the twelfth century , amused , with their romances and fabliaux , princes at their courts , noblemen in their castles , and warriors on their crusades : but it was in the next age that the Italian idiom acquired shape and ...
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... earliest times to 1646 Toppi , Nicodemi , and many others , illustrated the same department . Poetry , however , and the sister art of rhetoric , degenerated into fustian and conceit . Simplicity of thought and expression was supplanted ...
... earliest times to 1646 Toppi , Nicodemi , and many others , illustrated the same department . Poetry , however , and the sister art of rhetoric , degenerated into fustian and conceit . Simplicity of thought and expression was supplanted ...
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... early period of his life . He was a zealous , not to say viru- lent , opponent of the usurpations of Rome ; a circumstance to which he owes much of his reputation , and almost all his misfor- tunes . His work , on which he had bestowed ...
... early period of his life . He was a zealous , not to say viru- lent , opponent of the usurpations of Rome ; a circumstance to which he owes much of his reputation , and almost all his misfor- tunes . His work , on which he had bestowed ...
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Page 78 - It is false that any representation is mistaken for reality, that any dramatic fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment, was ever credited.
Page 416 - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few.
Page 344 - The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has so wrought upon me, and heated my brain, that I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.
Page 95 - Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which Is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
Page 344 - Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return? Whose favour shall I court, and whose anger must I dread? What beings surround me? and on whom have I any influence, or who have any influence on me? I am confounded with all these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition imaginable, environed with the deepest darkness, and utterly deprived of the use of every member and faculty.
Page 133 - For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me : and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth ; and to another, Come, and he cometh ; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
Page 344 - I run into the crowd for shelter and warmth, but cannot prevail with myself to mix with such deformity. I call upon others to join me, in order to make a company apart, but no one will hearken to me. Every one keeps at a distance, and dreads that storm which beats upon me from every side.
Page 95 - Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead
Page 136 - We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed...
Page 95 - And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness, as the stars for ever and ever.