American Quarterly Review, Issues 39-40Carey, Lea & Carey, 1836 - Serial publications |
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Page 45
... mind , if we may use the expression , by a general and consistent philosophy . Let not the reader be startled at the word philoso- phy in this connection . Every man who reads the bible un- derstandingly must be able , in a general ...
... mind , if we may use the expression , by a general and consistent philosophy . Let not the reader be startled at the word philoso- phy in this connection . Every man who reads the bible un- derstandingly must be able , in a general ...
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... mind will be disposed to deny . Its laws are different , it is true ; they are its own , but they are not , therefore , the less permanent and immutable . The mind , when under sufficient excitement to prompt to the use of figures to ...
... mind will be disposed to deny . Its laws are different , it is true ; they are its own , but they are not , therefore , the less permanent and immutable . The mind , when under sufficient excitement to prompt to the use of figures to ...
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... mind of the sacred seer , in the vision of coming events , it has been supposed , must have a corresponding reality in the fulfilment . The historian , who should live after the fulfilment , must be able to see the exact and complete ...
... mind of the sacred seer , in the vision of coming events , it has been supposed , must have a corresponding reality in the fulfilment . The historian , who should live after the fulfilment , must be able to see the exact and complete ...
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... mind to that truth , while many of the circumstances , embraced within the outline , were not intended in themselves to have any significancy , but merely to give beauty , expressiveness , and verisimilitude to the whole representation ...
... mind to that truth , while many of the circumstances , embraced within the outline , were not intended in themselves to have any significancy , but merely to give beauty , expressiveness , and verisimilitude to the whole representation ...
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... mind , some of them have rejected the whole as a sealed book ; while others , of keener optics , and more confidence in their own imaginations , have seen , in the history of the world , from the fall of Jerusalem to their own time , a ...
... mind , some of them have rejected the whole as a sealed book ; while others , of keener optics , and more confidence in their own imaginations , have seen , in the history of the world , from the fall of Jerusalem to their own time , a ...
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