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... received numerous letters entreating him to bring his heroine to a happy end , stating that the happiness of the writers depended upon the issue . Is it not an ineffable disgrace to allow our natures to be thus acted upon ? We trust the ...
... received numerous letters entreating him to bring his heroine to a happy end , stating that the happiness of the writers depended upon the issue . Is it not an ineffable disgrace to allow our natures to be thus acted upon ? We trust the ...
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... received opinions of the sages of antiquity . Our readers of Aristotle , Plutarch , Pliny , and even Plato , will remember the nonsense to which these glorious authors gave utterance , when they spoke either of the origin of mankind ...
... received opinions of the sages of antiquity . Our readers of Aristotle , Plutarch , Pliny , and even Plato , will remember the nonsense to which these glorious authors gave utterance , when they spoke either of the origin of mankind ...
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... received doctrine of all the schools , that the gods loved the virtuous and the brave , the intellectual and the successful ; but that the masses of the ignorant and the poor , and particularly the slave , were too insignificant to ...
... received doctrine of all the schools , that the gods loved the virtuous and the brave , the intellectual and the successful ; but that the masses of the ignorant and the poor , and particularly the slave , were too insignificant to ...
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... received the external freedom before they had become ' free indeed , ' and might have shared the sad lot of our own poor bondmen , who received the outward boon before they had intelligence sufficient to appropriate that for which ...
... received the external freedom before they had become ' free indeed , ' and might have shared the sad lot of our own poor bondmen , who received the outward boon before they had intelligence sufficient to appropriate that for which ...
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... received intelligence of the death of his mother - to him an excellent and well - loved mother . He could not hide his grief from his wife , and , in answer to her ques- tions , gave the intelligence . ' Poor old man ! ' murmured his ...
... received intelligence of the death of his mother - to him an excellent and well - loved mother . He could not hide his grief from his wife , and , in answer to her ques- tions , gave the intelligence . ' Poor old man ! ' murmured his ...
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Page 6 - Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead In the rock for ever!
Page 456 - If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, " Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them...
Page 281 - And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the Lord.
Page 84 - And the LORD said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod. And he said, Cast it on the ground.
Page 10 - Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men : and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Page 150 - But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye : and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled ; but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts : and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in yon with meekness and fear...
Page 454 - And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us ; and we forbade him, because he followeth not us.
Page 361 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Page 359 - Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, Therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, And I will turn thee back by the way by which thou earnest.
Page 104 - Come forth out of thy royal chambers, O Prince of all the kings of the earth ! put on the visible robes of thy imperial majesty, take up that unlimited sceptre which thy almighty Father hath bequeathed thee ; for now the voice of thy bride calls thee, and all creatures sigh to be renewed.