Elements of General Knowledge, Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal Branches of Literature and Science: With Lists of the Most Approved Authors, Including the Best Editions of the Classics ; Designed Chiefly for the Junior Students in the Universities and the Higher Classes in Schools ; in Two Volumes. 1Messrs. Rivington, St. Paul's Church Yard; Hatchard, Piccadilly; and Egerton, Withehall; J. Parker and J. Cooke, Oxford; and Deighton, Cambridge, 1806 - 564 pàgines |
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Pàgina 26
... authority and credibility unattainable by all other writers . " It doth not appear , that ever it came into the mind of these writers , how this or the other action would appear to mankind , or what objec- tions might be raised upon ...
... authority and credibility unattainable by all other writers . " It doth not appear , that ever it came into the mind of these writers , how this or the other action would appear to mankind , or what objec- tions might be raised upon ...
Pàgina 28
... authority . Nor has the stream of time merely conveyed to us this divine treasure , uninjured and fecure ; but even in the midft of the most violent perfecutions , and the darkeft fuperftition , the Christian faith has been fo protected ...
... authority . Nor has the stream of time merely conveyed to us this divine treasure , uninjured and fecure ; but even in the midft of the most violent perfecutions , and the darkeft fuperftition , the Christian faith has been fo protected ...
Pàgina 38
... authority of Scripture , that multitudes of Jews , who had diligently studied the Prophecies from their youth , and acknowledged Stillingfleet's Orig . Sacræ , book ii . ch . v . & c . Paley's Evidences , vol . ii . p . 67. Grotius de ...
... authority of Scripture , that multitudes of Jews , who had diligently studied the Prophecies from their youth , and acknowledged Stillingfleet's Orig . Sacræ , book ii . ch . v . & c . Paley's Evidences , vol . ii . p . 67. Grotius de ...
Pàgina 39
... authority , felt the force of their appli- cation to our Lord , and were converted to his reli- gion . And not to appeal to other inftances , we alfo know that the fifty - third chapter of Ifaiah , fo circumftantially defcriptive of the ...
... authority , felt the force of their appli- cation to our Lord , and were converted to his reli- gion . And not to appeal to other inftances , we alfo know that the fifty - third chapter of Ifaiah , fo circumftantially defcriptive of the ...
Pàgina 43
... authority of his miffion , confifted in the exercife of miraculous powers . The miracles of Chrift were fo frequent , that they could not be the effects of chance ; fo public , that they could not be the contrivance of fraud and ...
... authority of his miffion , confifted in the exercife of miraculous powers . The miracles of Chrift were fo frequent , that they could not be the effects of chance ; fo public , that they could not be the contrivance of fraud and ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 540 - ... of his well-concerted plan; and passing, in the warmth of their admiration, from one extreme to another, they now pronounced the man, whom they had so lately reviled and threatened, to be a person inspired by heaven with sagacity and fortitude more than human, in order to accomplish a design so far beyond the ideas and conception of all former ages.
Pàgina 48 - I here give you then} to dispose of. £The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love Him...
Pàgina 109 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Pàgina 204 - ... as deceivers, and yet true; as unknown, and yet known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Pàgina 30 - Let her see him in his most retired privacies; let her follow him to the Mount, and hear his devotions and supplications to God. Carry her to his table, to view his poor fare, and hear his heavenly discourse.
Pàgina 276 - EASTER-DAY, on which the rest depend, is always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the twenty-first day of March, and if the full moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after.
Pàgina 197 - He made darkness his secret place, his pavilion round about Him with dark water, and thick clouds to cover Him.
Pàgina 523 - But see! each Muse, in Leo's golden days, Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays! Rome's ancient Genius, o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his rev'rend head. Then Sculpture and her sister-arts revive; Stones leap'd to form, and rocks began to live; With sweeter notes each rising Temple rung; A Raphael painted, and a Vida sung.
Pàgina 497 - Love my memory, cherish my friends; their faith to me may assure you they are honest. But above all, govern your will and affections, by the will and Word of your Creator; in me, beholding the end of this world, with all her vanities.
Pàgina 52 - When therefore the obligations of morality are taught, let the fanctions of chriftianity never be forgotten ; by which it will be fhewn, that they give ftrength and luftre to each other ; religion will appear to be the voice of reafon, and morality the will of GOD.