Remarks on Lord Bolingbroke's Letters on the Study and Use of History:: So Far as They Relate to the History of the Old Testament; and Especially to the Case of Noah, Denouncing a Curse Upon Canaan. In a Letter to a Lady of Quality, Volume 1

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J. and J. Rivington, in St. Paul's Church-yard., 1752 - 77 pages
 

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Page 6 - And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.
Page 73 - The pages of scripture, like the productions of nature, will not only endure the test, but improve upon the trial. The application of the microscope to the one, and a repeated meditation on the other, are sure to display new beauties, and present us with higher attractives.
Page 30 - God, who visits the iniquities of the Fathers upon the Children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Him, and shows mercy unto thousands in them that love Him, and keep His Commandments.
Page 75 - Ghost; he causes them to walk in his statutes, and to keep his judgments and do them.
Page 57 - The only effects to be perceived of liumun industry are the numberless proas, or temples, and images of Gaudma, which meet the eye in every direction, and cast a gloom over the mind, which the beauty of the country cannot remove. This is indeed one of the dark places of the' earth, and full of the habitations of cruelty.
Page 50 - ... widow. He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life. Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways. They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
Page 3 - FINISHED : for through death he conquered death, and him that had the power of death, that is, the devil : he finished the transgression, and made an end of sins, and made reconciliation for iniquity, and brought in everlasting righteousness.
Page 39 - AN was to be deemed an accurfed race, it is eafy to account ; and I have mentioned it juft now. But it is not fo eafy to account, why the pofterity of the righteous SEM, that great example of filial reverence, became flaves to another branch of the family of HAM.

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