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... possession of a special treasure of divine knowledge , communicated in a manner which carried with it a peculiar certainty ; and such a belief , called the belief in inspiration , and pervading the whole of Christendom from the very ...
... possession of a special treasure of divine knowledge , communicated in a manner which carried with it a peculiar certainty ; and such a belief , called the belief in inspiration , and pervading the whole of Christendom from the very ...
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... possessed good land , but his wife , too , was bad and foul - favoured ; therefore did he seem old , though not so stricken in years as his younger brother . But he himself , he went on to say , was blessed not only with good land , but ...
... possessed good land , but his wife , too , was bad and foul - favoured ; therefore did he seem old , though not so stricken in years as his younger brother . But he himself , he went on to say , was blessed not only with good land , but ...
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... possessions . Very different has been the conduct of England . So far from deriving any revenue from our colonies , we have spent enormous sums of money for their benefit . As far as I have been able to ascertain , no account has been ...
... possessions . Very different has been the conduct of England . So far from deriving any revenue from our colonies , we have spent enormous sums of money for their benefit . As far as I have been able to ascertain , no account has been ...
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... possession of India has in various ways thrown very heavy charges on this country . The first war with China , in 1840 , arose out of disputes connected with the opium trade . Whatever differences of opinion there may be with reference ...
... possession of India has in various ways thrown very heavy charges on this country . The first war with China , in 1840 , arose out of disputes connected with the opium trade . Whatever differences of opinion there may be with reference ...
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... possession of any spiritual authority whatever , we must acknowledge with sorrow and humiliation not only that party spirit of the worst kind is now prevailing in the Church , but that good sense and even sanity itself are taking leave ...
... possession of any spiritual authority whatever , we must acknowledge with sorrow and humiliation not only that party spirit of the worst kind is now prevailing in the Church , but that good sense and even sanity itself are taking leave ...
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Page 143 - A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light.
Page 419 - Queen do most plainly testify; but that only prerogative, which we see to have been given always to all godly Princes in holy Scriptures by God himself; that is, that they should rule all estates and degrees committed to their charge by God, whether they be Ecclesiastical or Temporal, and restrain with the civil sword the stubborn and evil-doers.
Page 420 - Majesty the chief government, by which titles we understand the minds of some slanderous folks to be offended, we give not to our princes the ministering either of God's Word, or of the Sacraments, the which thing the Injunctions...
Page 319 - Making of any manner of new Manufactures within this Realm, to the true and first Inventor and Inventors of such Manufactures, which others at the Time of Making such Letters...
Page 528 - Ay, truly ; for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness : this was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof.
Page 808 - As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord ; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
Page 141 - Falkland ; a person of such prodigious parts of learning and knowledge, of that inimitable sweetness and delight in conversation, of so flowing and obliging a humanity and goodness to mankind, and of that primitive simplicity and integrity of life, that if there were no other brand upon this odious and accursed civil war, than that single loss, it must be most infamous and execrable to all posterity.
Page 144 - ... nor did the lord of the house know of their coming or going, nor who were in his house, till he came to dinner or supper where all still met. Otherwise there was no troublesome ceremony or constraint, to forbid men to come to the house, or to make them weary of staying there. So that many came thither to study in a better air, finding all the books they could desire in his library, and all the persons together whose company they could wish, and not find in any other society.
Page 148 - Hill, when the enemy was routed, he was like to have incurred great peril by interposing to save those who had thrown away their arms, and against whom it may be others were more fierce for their having thrown them away...
Page 421 - Concerning appeals, if they should occur, they ought to proceed from the archdeacon to the bishop, from the bishop to the archbishop. And if the archbishop should...