The Popular Encyclopedia; Or, "Conversations Lexicon": Being a General Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, Biography, and HistoryBlackie and Son, 1874 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Page xxi - resolution which was in fact a virtual declaration of independence, recommending to the colonies "to adopt such a government as would, in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents and of America.
Page 257 - called also the wise men and the sorcerers : now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments : for they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods
Page 93 - bill, whilst it is passing through the houses. Amendments may be made so as totally to alter the nature of the proposition ; and it is a way of getting rid of a proposition, by making it bear a sense different from what was intended by the movers,
Page xiii - at the end of the third and the beginning of the fourth century, and taught rhetoric in his native city. In his old age he became a convert to Christianity, and rose to the dignity of a bishop. Besides a treatise on the sphere, which we
Page 110 - Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites' So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I. Are they ministers of Christ? I am more.
Page ii - now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thon lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt-offering'.
Page 248 - Gold, and An Essay on a Registry for Titles of Land. These productions were followed in 1700 by a fanciful and enthusiastic work, entitled An Argument proving that, according to the Covenant of Eternal Life, Man may be Translated from hence without passing through Death, although the Human Nature of Christ himself could
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