The Athenian Oracle: Being a Entire Collection of All the Valuable Questions and Answers in the Old Athenian Mercuries. Intermix'd with Many Cases in Divinity, History, Philosophy, Mathematics, Love, Poetry; Never Before Publish'd. To which is Added, an Alphabetical Table for the Speedy Finding of Any Questions, Volume 2John Dunton, Richard Sault, Samuel Wesley J. and J. Knapton, 1728 - Natural theology |
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... prefent , but we very well re- member that we did fay , as pre- vious to what follow'd , which if you please take over again , and if poffible in more intelligible Terms : Suppofe then that We had very lately abundance of Rain and ...
... prefent , but we very well re- member that we did fay , as pre- vious to what follow'd , which if you please take over again , and if poffible in more intelligible Terms : Suppofe then that We had very lately abundance of Rain and ...
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... prefent ' em here with an Oracle , the refult of all our Studies who are in or near the Town , confifting of Divinity , Poe- try , Metaphyficks , Phy- ficks , Mathematicks , Hi- ftory , Love , Politicks , Occonomicks , and to reach jet ...
... prefent ' em here with an Oracle , the refult of all our Studies who are in or near the Town , confifting of Divinity , Poe- try , Metaphyficks , Phy- ficks , Mathematicks , Hi- ftory , Love , Politicks , Occonomicks , and to reach jet ...
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... prefent Cafe , that the Light of the Sun , when it fhines thro ' the Smoak into the Tops of Chimneys , ap- pears very Red : Thus the appear -- We may add , very like the ing Redness of the Moon is only owing to the Vapours which fill ...
... prefent Cafe , that the Light of the Sun , when it fhines thro ' the Smoak into the Tops of Chimneys , ap- pears very Red : Thus the appear -- We may add , very like the ing Redness of the Moon is only owing to the Vapours which fill ...
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... prefent , as the pro- duction of Worms that are found in Human Bodies , of which Phy- ficians relate fo very ftrange and different Shapes , and fome of ' em fome yards long , and what is yet more obfervable , very often but one of a ...
... prefent , as the pro- duction of Worms that are found in Human Bodies , of which Phy- ficians relate fo very ftrange and different Shapes , and fome of ' em fome yards long , and what is yet more obfervable , very often but one of a ...
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... pre- fent Government , the Reduction of Ireland , as may be feen in Cox's Excellent Hiftory . To the Pinch of the prefent Question , Whether fuch Thoughts , Words or Recreation as are finful on a Sabbath , becaufe ' tis a Sab- bath , be ...
... pre- fent Government , the Reduction of Ireland , as may be feen in Cox's Excellent Hiftory . To the Pinch of the prefent Question , Whether fuch Thoughts , Words or Recreation as are finful on a Sabbath , becaufe ' tis a Sab- bath , be ...
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Page 97 - Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils : ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.
Page 496 - As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Page 511 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Page 287 - A thousand shall fall beside thee, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
Page 172 - Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon. Then Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego over the affairs of the province of Babylon : but Daniel sat in the gate of the king.
Page 387 - If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods...
Page 358 - ... now, I say, be you assured, that even with my whole heart, God is my witness, in the bowels of Christ I love you in the truth, and for the truth's sake which abideth in us, and, as I am persuaded, shall, by the grace of God, abide in us for evermore.
Page 453 - All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Page 151 - Moses' seat, and made laws as authoritative as His.* Moses was said to have received the law on Sinai and then committed it to Joshua, Joshua to the elders, the elders to the prophets, the prophets to the men of the Great Synagogue, who thus, as the makers of the oral, took their place beside the creators of the scriptural, law.