A Series of Discourses on the Christian Revelation ... Ninth editionWilliam Collins, 1830 - 281 pages |
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Page vii
... magnificence of his own discoveries , he had a solidity of mind which could resist their fascination , and keep him in steady attachment to that Book , whose general evidences stamped upon it the impress of a real communication from ...
... magnificence of his own discoveries , he had a solidity of mind which could resist their fascination , and keep him in steady attachment to that Book , whose general evidences stamped upon it the impress of a real communication from ...
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... magnificent a spectacle ; and this earth , the encompassing of which would require the labour of years from one of its puny inhabitants , is but one of the lesser lights which sparkle in their firmament . To them , as well as to us ...
... magnificent a spectacle ; and this earth , the encompassing of which would require the labour of years from one of its puny inhabitants , is but one of the lesser lights which sparkle in their firmament . To them , as well as to us ...
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... magnificence has been called into being merely for the amuse- ment of a few astronomers ? Shall we measure the counsels of heaven by the narrow impotence of the human faculties ? or conceive , that silence and solitude reign throughout ...
... magnificence has been called into being merely for the amuse- ment of a few astronomers ? Shall we measure the counsels of heaven by the narrow impotence of the human faculties ? or conceive , that silence and solitude reign throughout ...
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... magnificent system , should be reduced to the glimmering of a little star . Why resist any longer the grand and interesting conclusion ? Each of these stars may be the token of a system as vast and as splendid as the one which we ...
... magnificent system , should be reduced to the glimmering of a little star . Why resist any longer the grand and interesting conclusion ? Each of these stars may be the token of a system as vast and as splendid as the one which we ...
Page 45
... magnificent step in the scale of the Creator's workmanship . In the same man- ner as the planets , with their satellites , revolve round the sun , may the sun , with all his tribu- taries , be moving , in common with other stars ...
... magnificent step in the scale of the Creator's workmanship . In the same man- ner as the planets , with their satellites , revolve round the sun , may the sun , with all his tribu- taries , be moving , in common with other stars ...
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A Series of Discourses on the Christian Revelation ... Ninth edition Thomas Chalmers Affichage du livre entier - 1822 |
A Series of Discourses on the Christian Revelation ... Ninth edition Thomas Chalmers Affichage du livre entier - 1818 |
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