Elements of General Knowledge: Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal Branches of Literature and Science. Designed Chiefly for the Junior Students in the Universities, and the Higher Classes in Schools, Volume 1Printed at the Press of H. Maxwell, for F. Nichols, Philadelphia, and J. A. Cummings, Boston, 1805 |
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... Jews . 11. Of Greece . III . Of Rome . IV . Of Modern Europe . V. Of England . Statistics , biography , and the ... JEWS . The accomplishment of some remarkable prophecies , relat- ing both to the affairs of the Jews , and to the ...
... Jews . 11. Of Greece . III . Of Rome . IV . Of Modern Europe . V. Of England . Statistics , biography , and the ... JEWS . The accomplishment of some remarkable prophecies , relat- ing both to the affairs of the Jews , and to the ...
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... Jews were selected as the peculiar people of God , render their sacred books highly inte- resting . I. The remote antiquity of these books : the proofs of their authenticity : the sublime nature of their contents . II . The institutions ...
... Jews were selected as the peculiar people of God , render their sacred books highly inte- resting . I. The remote antiquity of these books : the proofs of their authenticity : the sublime nature of their contents . II . The institutions ...
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... Jews : to them was com- municated , and by them was preserved , the knowledge of the true God ; while all other nations were sunk in the most abject superstition , and disgraced by the grossest idolatry . The writers of GREECE and ROME ...
... Jews : to them was com- municated , and by them was preserved , the knowledge of the true God ; while all other nations were sunk in the most abject superstition , and disgraced by the grossest idolatry . The writers of GREECE and ROME ...
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... Jews have ever been so hardy as to deny . The second Epistle of St. Peter indeed , the Epistles of St. James and St. Jude , the two Epistles of St. John , the Epistle to the Hebrews , and the Revela- tion of St. John , were not received ...
... Jews have ever been so hardy as to deny . The second Epistle of St. Peter indeed , the Epistles of St. James and St. Jude , the two Epistles of St. John , the Epistle to the Hebrews , and the Revela- tion of St. John , were not received ...
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... History of Christ and his followers , contra- dictory to that of the Evangelists , there is not a con- temporary , or a subsequent writer , whether Jewish or Pagan , who adverts to the subject at all , C 2 THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION . 17.
... History of Christ and his followers , contra- dictory to that of the Evangelists , there is not a con- temporary , or a subsequent writer , whether Jewish or Pagan , who adverts to the subject at all , C 2 THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION . 17.
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Page 38 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Page 91 - And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i...
Page 318 - The blue-eyed myriads from the Baltic coast The prostrate South to the destroyer yields Her boasted titles and her golden fields • With grim delight the brood of winter view A brighter day, and heavens of azure hue, Scent the new fragrance of the breathing rose, And quaff the pendent vintage as it grows.
Page 109 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Page 23 - Go to your natural religion : lay before her Mahomet and his disciples arrayed in armour and in blood, riding in triumph over the spoils of thousands and tens of thousands, who fell by his victorious sword : shew her the cities which...
Page 222 - and attentively read these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that this " Volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, ' more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and * finer strains both of Poetry and Eloquence, than can be' collected from * all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been composed.
Page 117 - Dryden saw very early that closeness best preserved an author's sense, and that freedom best exhibited his spirit ; he therefore will deserve the highest praise, who can give a representation at once faithful and pleasing, who can convey the same thoughts with the same graces, and who, when he translates changes nothing but the language.
Page 371 - Stones leap'd to form, and rocks began to live; With sweeter notes each rising temple rung; A Raphael painted, and a Vida sung.
Page 209 - We believe in God, and that which hath been sent down unto us, and that which hath been sent down unto Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the tribes, and that which was delivered unto Moses and Jesus, and that which was delivered unto the prophets from their Lord : we make no distinction between any of them...
Page 91 - Then maids and youths shall linger here, And while its sounds at distance swell, Shall sadly seem in Pity's ear To hear the woodland pilgrim's knell. Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore When Thames in summer wreaths is drest, And oft suspend the dashing oar To bid his gentle spirit rest...