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... pretended to be taken from Diodorus : how the latter part came in , or how it can be true , unless the body were cut in pieces to be embalmed , is not easy to conceive : but we know it was embalmed entire ; and Diodorus says nothing of ...
... pretended to be taken from Diodorus : how the latter part came in , or how it can be true , unless the body were cut in pieces to be embalmed , is not easy to conceive : but we know it was embalmed entire ; and Diodorus says nothing of ...
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... pretended ( though very impudently ) to ancient Egyptian wisdom ; but these hieroglyphics constantly dis- claimed it : § by this direction he steered at large : and it is pleasant to see him labouring through half a dozen folios with ...
... pretended ( though very impudently ) to ancient Egyptian wisdom ; but these hieroglyphics constantly dis- claimed it : § by this direction he steered at large : and it is pleasant to see him labouring through half a dozen folios with ...
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... pretended science . But what ground or authority could this be , if not the mysteri- ous learning of symbolic characters ? Here we seem to have got a solution of the difficulty . The Egyptian priests , the first interpreters of dreams ...
... pretended science . But what ground or authority could this be , if not the mysteri- ous learning of symbolic characters ? Here we seem to have got a solution of the difficulty . The Egyptian priests , the first interpreters of dreams ...
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... pretended cause to be as defective as the rest . These were the reasons the Greek writers gave for brute worship in general . But besides these , they invented a thousand fanciful causes See Div . Leg . vol . i . p . 385 . of the ...
... pretended cause to be as defective as the rest . These were the reasons the Greek writers gave for brute worship in general . But besides these , they invented a thousand fanciful causes See Div . Leg . vol . i . p . 385 . of the ...
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... pretended Histoire du Ciel . This historian's system is , that all the civil and religious customs of antiquity sprung up from AGRICULTURE ; nay that the very gods and goddesses themselves were but a part of this all - bounteous harvest ...
... pretended Histoire du Ciel . This historian's system is , that all the civil and religious customs of antiquity sprung up from AGRICULTURE ; nay that the very gods and goddesses themselves were but a part of this all - bounteous harvest ...
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Page 59 - I shall see him, but not n'ow; I shall behold him, but not nigh; There shall come a Star out of Jacob, And a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, And shall smite the corners of Moab, And destroy all the children of Sheth.
Page 666 - WHEN the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place: and suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues, like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them: and they were all filled with the HOLY GHOST; and began to speak with other tongues, as the SPIRIT gave them utterance.
Page 412 - The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan ; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee : is not this a brand plucked out of the fire 1 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.
Page 645 - For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
Page 498 - Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand...
Page 427 - Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
Page 638 - And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Page 518 - In those days they shall say no more, "The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge." But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
Page 444 - But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him; and his righteousness unto children's children ; to such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.
Page 309 - And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.