The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volume 5Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel, Jun, and Richter, 1830 |
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... Christians , when such are your works ? better than mere Anabaptists and Turks ? Are ye Do ye dare on the Sabbath to raise such a rout , As if the Almighty had got the gout , And to punish your wickedness couldn't look out ? Is this a ...
... Christians , when such are your works ? better than mere Anabaptists and Turks ? Are ye Do ye dare on the Sabbath to raise such a rout , As if the Almighty had got the gout , And to punish your wickedness couldn't look out ? Is this a ...
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... Christianity ; but the story is very doubtful . Lucian , in fact , was too pleasant a fellow for any such fate . His works were read , as M. Letronne informs us , by the very Chris- tians themselves , who pardoned his want of true ...
... Christianity ; but the story is very doubtful . Lucian , in fact , was too pleasant a fellow for any such fate . His works were read , as M. Letronne informs us , by the very Chris- tians themselves , who pardoned his want of true ...
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... Christianity , which he professed , in diffusing over the whole work that air of honnêteté , in which almost all the ... Christian sentiments . This is felt by a kind of moral purity which contrasts strongly with the habitual license of ...
... Christianity , which he professed , in diffusing over the whole work that air of honnêteté , in which almost all the ... Christian sentiments . This is felt by a kind of moral purity which contrasts strongly with the habitual license of ...
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... Christian and a bishop before his death . Photius , however , who speaks of him three times , never once mentions either his see or his Christianity ; Huet doubts very much of the alleged conversion ; and the internal evidence of the ...
... Christian and a bishop before his death . Photius , however , who speaks of him three times , never once mentions either his see or his Christianity ; Huet doubts very much of the alleged conversion ; and the internal evidence of the ...
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... Christianity . Taking the difference of time , climate , knowledge , and faith , into account , the parallel is complete . If St. Pierre had made his lovers shepherds in the island of Lesbos , under a Pagan regime , his work , instead ...
... Christianity . Taking the difference of time , climate , knowledge , and faith , into account , the parallel is complete . If St. Pierre had made his lovers shepherds in the island of Lesbos , under a Pagan regime , his work , instead ...
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Page 429 - She who with seven heads tower'd at her birth, And from ten horns her proof of glory drew, Long as her spouse in virtue took delight. Of gold and silver ye have made your god...
Page 306 - ARTICLE x. The Sublime Porte, whilst declaring its entire adhesion to the stipulations of the treaty concluded in London on the 24th of June, (the 6th of July...
Page 140 - HO shall awake the Spartan fife, And call in solemn sounds to life The youths, whose locks divinely spreading, Like vernal hyacinths in sullen hue...