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... planetary production of mankind must depend upon observation . But are they able to shew among all the Chal- daic observations for four hundred and seventy thousand years ( as they pretended ) any tradition of such a production ? So far ...
... planetary production of mankind must depend upon observation . But are they able to shew among all the Chal- daic observations for four hundred and seventy thousand years ( as they pretended ) any tradition of such a production ? So far ...
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... planets and the zodiac by instinct , and fell to drawing schemes of their own horoscopes in the same dust they sprung out of ? For my part , I can have no great veneration for Chaldaic anti- quity , when I see they could not discover in ...
... planets and the zodiac by instinct , and fell to drawing schemes of their own horoscopes in the same dust they sprung out of ? For my part , I can have no great veneration for Chaldaic anti- quity , when I see they could not discover in ...
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... planet Saturn is found to have a great ring that encircles him , and five ‡ lesser planets that move about him , as the moon doth about the earth and Jupiter hath four satellites , which by their inter- [ * Cos ; 1st ed . " Coos . " - D ...
... planet Saturn is found to have a great ring that encircles him , and five ‡ lesser planets that move about him , as the moon doth about the earth and Jupiter hath four satellites , which by their inter- [ * Cos ; 1st ed . " Coos . " - D ...
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... planets , have always declared , that when Jupiter and Saturn come about again to any given point , they exert ( considered singly by themselves ) the same influ- ence as before . But ' tis now manifest , that when either of them return ...
... planets , have always declared , that when Jupiter and Saturn come about again to any given point , they exert ( considered singly by themselves ) the same influ- ence as before . But ' tis now manifest , that when either of them return ...
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... planets to be dark , solid , and sense- less bodies , like the brute earth he treads on ; and the fixed stars and the sun to be inanimate balls of fire ; what reasons can he advance for the credit of such influences ? he acknow- ledgeth ...
... planets to be dark , solid , and sense- less bodies , like the brute earth he treads on ; and the fixed stars and the sun to be inanimate balls of fire ; what reasons can he advance for the credit of such influences ? he acknow- ledgeth ...
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Página 282 - They went out from us, but they were not of us ; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us : but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
Página 32 - That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Página 173 - Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Página 26 - Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
Página 28 - For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears : we would know therefore what these things mean. (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.) Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.
Página 241 - For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
Página 532 - Atinas sustentant aciem. Circum hos utrimque phalanges stant densae, strictisque seges mucronibus horret ferrea: tu currum deserto in gramine versas.' Obstupuit varia confusus imagine rerum 665 Turnus et obtutu tacito stetit. Aestuat ingens uno in corde pudor mixtoque insania luctu et furiis agitatus amor et conscia virtus.
Página 31 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Página 172 - Therefore with Angels and Archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify Thy glorious Name, evermore praising Thee and saying, HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, LORD GOD of hosts, heaven and earth are full of Thy glory. Glory be to Thee, O LORD MOST HIGH.
Página 203 - When I wrote my Treatise about our System *, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose.