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... OBJECTS OF NATU- RAL HISTORY . 12mo . with Plates , 4th Edit . 7s . 6d . bds . PHILOSOPHICAL CONVERSA- TIONS ; familiarly explaining the Ef- fects and Causes of many Daily Occur- rences in Natural Phenomena . By F. C. BAKEWELL . 12mo ...
... OBJECTS OF NATU- RAL HISTORY . 12mo . with Plates , 4th Edit . 7s . 6d . bds . PHILOSOPHICAL CONVERSA- TIONS ; familiarly explaining the Ef- fects and Causes of many Daily Occur- rences in Natural Phenomena . By F. C. BAKEWELL . 12mo ...
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... object in thus briefly addressing you , is not to convince , but to direct you to a method by which you may convince yourselves . With this design 1 shall take nothing for granted but what you will be readily disposed to concede . I ...
... object in thus briefly addressing you , is not to convince , but to direct you to a method by which you may convince yourselves . With this design 1 shall take nothing for granted but what you will be readily disposed to concede . I ...
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... object of your search , and that you are ready to embrace her wherever you find her . I I will suppose say , that you are in earnest . And truly I should offer an affront to your understandings both as men and philosophers , were I to ...
... object of your search , and that you are ready to embrace her wherever you find her . I I will suppose say , that you are in earnest . And truly I should offer an affront to your understandings both as men and philosophers , were I to ...
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... object must be infinitely grand and lovely : and if to know His works be good , to know Himself must be better than all . But if He be our Maker , if in Him we live , and move , and have our being , then surely it must be our most ...
... object must be infinitely grand and lovely : and if to know His works be good , to know Himself must be better than all . But if He be our Maker , if in Him we live , and move , and have our being , then surely it must be our most ...
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... object . I am not now speaking of the existence of God as undeniably established . I affirm , that the bare possibility that a Being so glorious and beautiful exists , makes it worth our while to leave the contempla- tion of every other ...
... object . I am not now speaking of the existence of God as undeniably established . I affirm , that the bare possibility that a Being so glorious and beautiful exists , makes it worth our while to leave the contempla- tion of every other ...
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2d Edit 5th Edit able absurd appear ATLAS Author beauty believe Bible blind BOTANY capable character of Jesus Christianity cloth conviction creatures CRYPTOGAMIA darkness declension Deist desire despise divine endeavour Engravings experience Father favour Fcap feel foolish Foolscap 8vo Gazette give glory God's heart HISTORY Holy Spirit hope human idea ignorance Illustrations infinite intellect Isaiah Jesus Christ judgment justice knowledge large vol light LL.D Longman Lord LUCY AIKIN Maker mankind Maps means MEMOIRS mercy mind nature notions object offer perceive perfect Plates PLEIAD Portrait post 8vo pray prayer promise proof prove Psalm rational reason refuse reject religion revealed ROBERT SOUTHEY Royal Russia Scrip Scriptures seek sense SHARON TURNER soul STOKE FLEMING suppose teach TEST OF TRUTH THAMES DITTON Thee things Thou thought tion tures understanding unto Valuable Standard wants wisdom word worth knowing
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Page 23 - If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone ? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent ? or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion ? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him ? " And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb.
Page 120 - ... that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation, in the knowledge of him; the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints...
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Page 56 - ... if any man will do the will of God, he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God.
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Page 114 - But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost; in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them that believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them
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Page 2 - Turner's Sacred History of the World, attempted to be Philosophically considered, in a Series of Letters to a Son.