Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryVicesimus Knox J. Johnson, 1808 - 1 من الصفحات An anthology of prose passages primarily from Greek, Roman, and English authors. |
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... thing regarded . " Wisd . ix . 4 , 5 , 6 . " Hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth ; and with labour do we find the things that are before us : but the things that are in heaven who bath searched out ? " Wisd . ix . 9 ...
... thing regarded . " Wisd . ix . 4 , 5 , 6 . " Hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth ; and with labour do we find the things that are before us : but the things that are in heaven who bath searched out ? " Wisd . ix . 9 ...
الصفحة 240
... things can there be of greater moment and im- portance for men to know , or God to re- veal , than the nature of God ... things in the law of God , things we may admire , but are never able to comprehend . Such are the eternal pur- poses ...
... things can there be of greater moment and im- portance for men to know , or God to re- veal , than the nature of God ... things in the law of God , things we may admire , but are never able to comprehend . Such are the eternal pur- poses ...
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... things , which is difplayed in every part of the creation . This he calls the origi- nal , immutable law ; the criterion of good and ill , of juft and unjust ; imprinted on the nature of things , as the rule by which all human lawsare ...
... things , which is difplayed in every part of the creation . This he calls the origi- nal , immutable law ; the criterion of good and ill , of juft and unjust ; imprinted on the nature of things , as the rule by which all human lawsare ...
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