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... whole continent to her shade . The chief sign of life she now gives is the exuding from her sickly trunk a number of deformed fungus's , which call themselves of her , because they stick upon her surface , and suck out the little re ...
... whole continent to her shade . The chief sign of life she now gives is the exuding from her sickly trunk a number of deformed fungus's , which call themselves of her , because they stick upon her surface , and suck out the little re ...
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... whole mind of God , though it be never so con- trary to their mind ; after the example of Peter and John , who having received this power of the Holy Spirit , held on their ministry against all the countermands and threatenings and pun ...
... whole mind of God , though it be never so con- trary to their mind ; after the example of Peter and John , who having received this power of the Holy Spirit , held on their ministry against all the countermands and threatenings and pun ...
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... whole Companies should be drawn together to be exercised . But that upon Sundays after even - edged supreme Pope ; supreme in honour , order , ing prayer and upon holy days ( as it hath been formerly used for the Bow ) the Leader ...
... whole Companies should be drawn together to be exercised . But that upon Sundays after even - edged supreme Pope ; supreme in honour , order , ing prayer and upon holy days ( as it hath been formerly used for the Bow ) the Leader ...
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... whole house , to go such power shivered . If the King of Portugal had a way as may best settle and secure an able , desired the Irish soldiers , I should rather have learned , and fully sufficient ministry among us . given my vote for ...
... whole house , to go such power shivered . If the King of Portugal had a way as may best settle and secure an able , desired the Irish soldiers , I should rather have learned , and fully sufficient ministry among us . given my vote for ...
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... whole it appears to me that though the See of Rome is a loser by this Act of Parliament [ the Act of Supremacy ] the Protestant Clergy have gained nothing by it . They have only changed masters ; and instead of paying obedience to those ...
... whole it appears to me that though the See of Rome is a loser by this Act of Parliament [ the Act of Supremacy ] the Protestant Clergy have gained nothing by it . They have only changed masters ; and instead of paying obedience to those ...
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Page 240 - Les sciences ont deux extrémités qui se touchent: la première est la pure ignorance naturelle, où se trouvent tous les hommes en naissant. L'autre extrémité est celle où arrivent les grandes âmes, qui, ayant parcouru tout ce que les hommes peuvent savoir, trouvent qu'ils ne savent rien, et se rencontrent en cette même ignorance d'où ils étaient partis; mais c'est une ignorance savante qui se connaît.
Page 400 - People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken. I know nothing that can be best taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn. You may teach chymistry by lectures. — You might teach making of shoes by lectures...
Page 342 - I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service.
Page 49 - Let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition : who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself
Page 227 - If I climb up into heaven, thou art there: If I go down to hell, thou art there also. If I take the wings of the morning, and remain in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there also shall thy hand lead me, And thy right hand shall hold me.
Page 294 - That he thought it not indifferent so to order the matter; for,' said he, 'poor men's children are many times endued with more singular gifts of nature, which are also the gifts of God, as, with eloquence, memory, apt pronunciation, sobriety, and such like ; and also commonly more apt to apply their study, than is the gentleman's son, delicately educated.
Page 233 - Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools : for they consider not that they do evil.
Page 187 - A most incomparable delight to build castles in the air, to go smiling to themselves, acting an infinite variety of parts, which they suppose, and strongly imagine, they act, or that they see done.
Page 187 - ... winding and unwinding themselves as so many clocks, and still pleasing their humours, until at last the...
Page 108 - The judge thought the fellow was mad: but after some conference with some of the justices, they agreed to indict him ; and so they did of several felonious actions ; to all of which he heartily confessed guilty, and so was hanged with his wife at the same time.