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... reader from giving it a leisurely and thorough examination , before he abandons it . If some of the results , in this little treatise , should appear new to the reader , I must suggest to him , that they are not the consequence of ...
... reader from giving it a leisurely and thorough examination , before he abandons it . If some of the results , in this little treatise , should appear new to the reader , I must suggest to him , that they are not the consequence of ...
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... reader . Thus far the preface to the first edition of this work . A second being now demanded , I take occasion to say , that I have carefully revised the whole ; made a number of 1 * PREFACE . any will be disposed to turn away from the ...
... reader . Thus far the preface to the first edition of this work . A second being now demanded , I take occasion to say , that I have carefully revised the whole ; made a number of 1 * PREFACE . any will be disposed to turn away from the ...
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... reader , whether my representation is not sub- stantially correct . Is it lawful and safe , now , to call in question a mode of interpretation so generally admitted , and which has so long been current among us ? Lawful , I think , it ...
... reader , whether my representation is not sub- stantially correct . Is it lawful and safe , now , to call in question a mode of interpretation so generally admitted , and which has so long been current among us ? Lawful , I think , it ...
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... reader will speedily perceive . Our first question , as above proposed , is , whether we are to regard the position , that " there are many occult passages in the prophecies , which are preg- nant with a double meaning , " as a position ...
... reader will speedily perceive . Our first question , as above proposed , is , whether we are to regard the position , that " there are many occult passages in the prophecies , which are preg- nant with a double meaning , " as a position ...
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... readers may be excited and pleased by the in- genuity of such devices , but the sober understanding and judgment of none can be satisfied . That must always be a wavering and uncertain state of mind , which follows the adoption of such ...
... readers may be excited and pleased by the in- genuity of such devices , but the sober understanding and judgment of none can be satisfied . That must always be a wavering and uncertain state of mind , which follows the adoption of such ...
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