 They are all the formation of Supreme Intelligence, for a wise and a worthy end, and may lead us by gentle gradations to a faint conception of the powers of infinite wisdom. They have calmed and amused some of us worms and reptiles, and possibly bettered...  The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal - Page 3761829Full view - About this book
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 | Bible - 1829 - 414 pages
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 | 1833 - 310 pages
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 | 1833 - 444 pages
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 | 1834 - 440 pages
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