The Bible and Men of Learning: In a Course of LecturesAnson D. F. Randolph, 1859 - 400 pages |
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... claim the indulgence of a little time before I engage in it . My health has suffered from the incessant labors through which I have passed during the last twelve or fifteen years . Leisure and relaxation have become indis- pensable to ...
... claim the indulgence of a little time before I engage in it . My health has suffered from the incessant labors through which I have passed during the last twelve or fifteen years . Leisure and relaxation have become indis- pensable to ...
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... claims . It would have us do them full justice . In another discourse we shall endeavor to show that if the question in dispute is to be settled by the authority of names , the argument may be viewed as at an end . We have a majority ...
... claims . It would have us do them full justice . In another discourse we shall endeavor to show that if the question in dispute is to be settled by the authority of names , the argument may be viewed as at an end . We have a majority ...
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... claim . We ask then , in the language of Paul , " Where is the scribe ? Where is the disputer of this world ? " Let them be produced . Let us become acquainted with their strength and their attainments , and " the measure of their ...
... claim . We ask then , in the language of Paul , " Where is the scribe ? Where is the disputer of this world ? " Let them be produced . Let us become acquainted with their strength and their attainments , and " the measure of their ...
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... claims cannot require of us to do anything more . The great majority of them are like flies in amber , preserved from oblivion by the medium in which they are held . Their names and their works are known to us chiefly through the ...
... claims cannot require of us to do anything more . The great majority of them are like flies in amber , preserved from oblivion by the medium in which they are held . Their names and their works are known to us chiefly through the ...
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... learning ; and if a few of their number might claim such a dis- tinction , their Infidelity was so revolting and mon- strous in its blasphemies , as to render it compara- tively harmless . They owed their fame , such as FIRST 27 LECTURE .
... learning ; and if a few of their number might claim such a dis- tinction , their Infidelity was so revolting and mon- strous in its blasphemies , as to render it compara- tively harmless . They owed their fame , such as FIRST 27 LECTURE .
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