The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 23R. Griffiths, 1760 - Books |
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... Method of of correcting the Hebrew Text , 414 HUMAN Nature Delineated , by Stephens , J I. 360 254 AMES'S Account of God's Dealings , JEPHSON'S Compaffionate Addrefs to the Methodists , 495 ILLUSTATION of the Holy Scrip- tures , Vol ...
... Method of of correcting the Hebrew Text , 414 HUMAN Nature Delineated , by Stephens , J I. 360 254 AMES'S Account of God's Dealings , JEPHSON'S Compaffionate Addrefs to the Methodists , 495 ILLUSTATION of the Holy Scrip- tures , Vol ...
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... method fhould be taken to correct the errors in the latter . But unhappily , fo ftrong a prejudice has prevailed amongst learned men in favour of the Maforetical copies , from whence our printed text was taken ; that the leaft deviation ...
... method fhould be taken to correct the errors in the latter . But unhappily , fo ftrong a prejudice has prevailed amongst learned men in favour of the Maforetical copies , from whence our printed text was taken ; that the leaft deviation ...
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... methods he had pointed out in the progrefs of the work . This , he observes , is neceffary , previous to a new tranflation , and if under- taken here , would be a great honour to our age and nation , as it would be a means of removing ...
... methods he had pointed out in the progrefs of the work . This , he observes , is neceffary , previous to a new tranflation , and if under- taken here , would be a great honour to our age and nation , as it would be a means of removing ...
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... method of praying relief , in such case they do not violate the rules of subordina- tion ; but if they are obliged to infringe those rules , that is , if they are under a neceffity of feeking redrefs by force , then , if they are fo ...
... method of praying relief , in such case they do not violate the rules of subordina- tion ; but if they are obliged to infringe those rules , that is , if they are under a neceffity of feeking redrefs by force , then , if they are fo ...
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... method of accounting for this inconfi- ftency , to be unfatisfactory , yet we muft allow that he is not much happier in his attempt to explain it , by fuppofing that Mary's accufers upon cool reflection , left out the word fub- ferivit ...
... method of accounting for this inconfi- ftency , to be unfatisfactory , yet we muft allow that he is not much happier in his attempt to explain it , by fuppofing that Mary's accufers upon cool reflection , left out the word fub- ferivit ...
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