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... ral aids , he has produced some striking and happy results . We shall adduce a few paragraphs from this long and ela borate article . There is no ancient writer almost , except perhaps Herodotus Hales's Analysis of Chronology .
... ral aids , he has produced some striking and happy results . We shall adduce a few paragraphs from this long and ela borate article . There is no ancient writer almost , except perhaps Herodotus Hales's Analysis of Chronology .
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There is no ancient writer almost , except perhaps Herodotus , whose character has been so variously represented , as Josephus , the great Jewish Historian and Chronologer . By some he is praised for his veracity , by others censured ...
There is no ancient writer almost , except perhaps Herodotus , whose character has been so variously represented , as Josephus , the great Jewish Historian and Chronologer . By some he is praised for his veracity , by others censured ...
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... perhaps other small animals , which lived on the summits of the rock , and whose remains have been washed by the rains into fis- sures and cavities , where they have been closely compressed , and cemented together by calcareous ...
... perhaps other small animals , which lived on the summits of the rock , and whose remains have been washed by the rains into fis- sures and cavities , where they have been closely compressed , and cemented together by calcareous ...
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... perhaps raise no wonder if the author should be found so much a man of the world , as to admit various convenient compromises between the pure prin- ciples of virtue , and the customs and prejudices of society ; and as to religion , no ...
... perhaps raise no wonder if the author should be found so much a man of the world , as to admit various convenient compromises between the pure prin- ciples of virtue , and the customs and prejudices of society ; and as to religion , no ...
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... perhaps determined at last . by a casual event , or unfortunate acquaintance , to the very worst selection that he could have made in the whole cata logue of employments . It is insisted , that methods which will generally prove ...
... perhaps determined at last . by a casual event , or unfortunate acquaintance , to the very worst selection that he could have made in the whole cata logue of employments . It is insisted , that methods which will generally prove ...
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Page 108 - ... sun. And behold a man bent with age coming from the way of the wilderness leaning on a staff. And Abraham arose, and met him, and said unto him, ' Turn in, I pray thee, and wash thy feet, and tarry all night ; and thou shall arise early in the morning, and go on thy way.' And the man said, 'Nay; for I will abide under this tree.