The Progress of Religious Ideas: Through Successive Ages : in Three Volumes, Volume 1C. S. Francis & Company, 1855 |
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Page ii
... present condition of one - half the human race , put together in that lively and attractive form which is sure to grow up beneath the hand of Mrs. Child . " Flowers for Children . A Series of volumes in Prose and Verse , for Children of ...
... present condition of one - half the human race , put together in that lively and attractive form which is sure to grow up beneath the hand of Mrs. Child . " Flowers for Children . A Series of volumes in Prose and Verse , for Children of ...
Page viii
... present impartially the beauties and the blemishes . I have honestly tried never to exaggerate merits , or conceal defects . I have not declared that any system was true , or that any one was false . I have even avoided the use of the ...
... present impartially the beauties and the blemishes . I have honestly tried never to exaggerate merits , or conceal defects . I have not declared that any system was true , or that any one was false . I have even avoided the use of the ...
Page ix
... present a continu- ous whole , from the same point of view . Doubtless , a learned person could have performed the task far better , in many respects ; but on some accounts , my want of learning is an advantage . Thoughts do not range ...
... present a continu- ous whole , from the same point of view . Doubtless , a learned person could have performed the task far better , in many respects ; but on some accounts , my want of learning is an advantage . Thoughts do not range ...
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... present , and future ; to perceive the thoughts of whoever came into their presence ; to move from one place to another by simply willing to do so ; to cure diseases , and even raise the dead . Some of this marvellous power was supposed ...
... present , and future ; to perceive the thoughts of whoever came into their presence ; to move from one place to another by simply willing to do so ; to cure diseases , and even raise the dead . Some of this marvellous power was supposed ...
Page 11
... presents itself . He re- frains from honey , from reluctance to deprive bees of their nourishment . He will not eat flesh , because he shrinks from causing the death of any animal . He avoids lighting a candle at night lest insects ...
... presents itself . He re- frains from honey , from reluctance to deprive bees of their nourishment . He will not eat flesh , because he shrinks from causing the death of any animal . He avoids lighting a candle at night lest insects ...
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