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... death , May 12 , 1795 , in the sixty - eighth year of his age . In person doctor Stiles was small , but well proportioned . His countenance was expressive of benignity and mildness , and his manners were amiable and kind . He had a ...
... death , May 12 , 1795 , in the sixty - eighth year of his age . In person doctor Stiles was small , but well proportioned . His countenance was expressive of benignity and mildness , and his manners were amiable and kind . He had a ...
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... death , bishop Stillingfleet engaged in a controversy with Locke , respecting some part of that philosopher's writings , which he conceived had a leaning to- wards materialism . His death took place in 1699. His works have been ...
... death , bishop Stillingfleet engaged in a controversy with Locke , respecting some part of that philosopher's writings , which he conceived had a leaning to- wards materialism . His death took place in 1699. His works have been ...
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... death of the latter . In 1780 , he received a num- ber of pupils into his house , and , in 1783 , visited the continent in company with the marquis of Lothian . When doctor Fergu- son was sent to North America on a mis- sion , Mr ...
... death of the latter . In 1780 , he received a num- ber of pupils into his house , and , in 1783 , visited the continent in company with the marquis of Lothian . When doctor Fergu- son was sent to North America on a mis- sion , Mr ...
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... death at an advanced age , the latter by starva- tion . Cleanthus , originally a pugilist , gave to the Stoic philosophy its distribu- tion into dialectics , rhetoric , ethics , poli- tics , physics and theology . He enlarged theology ...
... death at an advanced age , the latter by starva- tion . Cleanthus , originally a pugilist , gave to the Stoic philosophy its distribu- tion into dialectics , rhetoric , ethics , poli- tics , physics and theology . He enlarged theology ...
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... death ; and , like the ibis , this bird became an object of wor- ship . The stork is remarkable for its great affection towards its young , but es- pecially for its attention to its parents in old age . The gigantic stork , or adjutant ...
... death ; and , like the ibis , this bird became an object of wor- ship . The stork is remarkable for its great affection towards its young , but es- pecially for its attention to its parents in old age . The gigantic stork , or adjutant ...
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Page 421 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
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Page 64 - I, AB, do swear that I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position that princes excommunicated or deprived by the pope, or any authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever. And I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm...
Page 448 - By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to keep good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the law, and the denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime.
Page 411 - God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Page 399 - Mémoire à consulter sur un système religieux et politique, tendant à renverser la religion, . la société et le trône.
Page 411 - Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God, and one another, covenant, and combine ourselves together into a Civil body politic...
Page 344 - Faith is this : that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity, neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the substance. For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one ; the glory equal, the majesty coeternal.
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Page 192 - Free services were such as were not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freeman to perform; as to serve under his lord in the wars, to pay a sum of money, and the like. Base services were such as were fit only for peasants, or persons of a servile rank ; as to plough the lord's land, to make his hedges, to carry out his dung, or other mean employments.