Reflections Physical and Moral, Upon the Various and Numerous Uncommon Phenomena in the Air, Water, Or Earth, which Have Happened from the Earthquake at Lima, to the Present Time: In a Series of Familiar Letters from a Member of Parliament in Town to His Friend in the CountryA. Millar, 1756 - 60 pages |
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... certainly can be admited for fuch People who enjoy the double Advantage of Revelation and Learning ; and if Idolatry is de- fin'd in the facred Writings " to be the wor- fhipping any thing whatsoever , which is stiled " in Hebrew , Lo ...
... certainly can be admited for fuch People who enjoy the double Advantage of Revelation and Learning ; and if Idolatry is de- fin'd in the facred Writings " to be the wor- fhipping any thing whatsoever , which is stiled " in Hebrew , Lo ...
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... certainly conclude ; - that Fire was one principal Agent employ'd in the Subverfion of that late magnificent City . I PROPOS'D , Sir , to have concluded this Let- ter long before ; but as fucceffive Accounts ar- riv'd Poft after Poft of ...
... certainly conclude ; - that Fire was one principal Agent employ'd in the Subverfion of that late magnificent City . I PROPOS'D , Sir , to have concluded this Let- ter long before ; but as fucceffive Accounts ar- riv'd Poft after Poft of ...
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... certainly includes the Idea of the Idleness of the Body ; and as the former was the great Source of Vice in Persons of the higher Rank in Life ; fo the latter was very probably the Bane of the lowest Class of People , and might give ...
... certainly includes the Idea of the Idleness of the Body ; and as the former was the great Source of Vice in Persons of the higher Rank in Life ; fo the latter was very probably the Bane of the lowest Class of People , and might give ...
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Page 38 - And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood ; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
Page 38 - For the life or soul of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given.it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls : for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Page 50 - Take ye therefore good heed unto yourfelves, (for ye faw no manner of fimilitude on the day that the Lord fpake unto you in Horeb out of the midft of the fire,} Left ye corrupt yourfelves, and make you a graven image, the fimilitude of any figure, the likenefs of male or female...
Page 47 - Tortures, which the Wit or Malice of their diabolical Tormentors could invent, are they not...
Page 26 - God fays, 1, even I do bring a Flood cf Waters upon the Earth to deftroy all FUJh.
Page 47 - And were not thofe infernal Sacrifices always attended with the whole Parade of Ceremonies generally us'd in the...