The History of the Works of the Learned ..., المجلد 10

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J. Robinson, 1741
Containing impartial accounts and accurate abstracts of the most valuable books published in Great Britain and foreign parts ...
 

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الصفحة 385 - Enemy will come and attack us; and if we fall under the Power of the King, what can preserve us from being Spectators of the most tragical Sights, from suffering the most cruel Torments, and from dying with the greatest Ignominy? Yet no one makes Preparation for Defence, or takes any Care about it: but here we lie, as if we were allowed to live in Quiet. From what City therefore do I expect a General to perform these things? What Age do I wait for? But, if I abandon myself to the Enemy this Day,...
الصفحة 95 - THAT ALL MANKIND, ESPECIALLY THE MOST WISE AND LEARNED NATIONS OF ANTIQUITY, HAVE CONCURRED IN BELIEVING AND TEACHING, THAT THIS DOCTRINE WAS OF SUCH USE TO CIVIL SOCIETY. 3. THAT THE DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE STATE OF REWARDS AND PUNISHMENTS IS NOT TO BE FOUND IN, NOR DID MAKE PART OF, THE MOSAIC DISPENSATION.
الصفحة 87 - ... that blindnefs in part is happened to Ifrael until the fulnefs of the Gentiles be come in.
الصفحة 82 - Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was fpoken of the Lord by the prophet...
الصفحة 333 - The nightly wolf is baneful to the fold, Storms to the wheat, to buds the bitter cold ; But, from my frowning fair, more ills I find, Than from the wolves, and storms, and winter wind.
الصفحة 148 - Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; juft and true are thy ways, thou King of faints...
الصفحة 6 - The next way of improving the mind is by reading, and the advantages of it are such as these : 1 . By reading we acquaint ourselves, in a very extensive manner, with the affairs, actions, and thoughts of the living and the dead, in the most remote nations, and in most distant ages, and that with as much ease as though they lived in our own age and nation.
الصفحة 10 - ... own business best. In this sense a common mechanic is wiser than the philosopher. By this means you may gain some improvement in knowledge from every one you meet. IV. Confine not yourself always to one sort of company, or to persons of the same party or opinion, either in matters of learning, religion, or civil life, lest, if you should happen to...
الصفحة 196 - ... and venerable. This would, of course, bring on a relative devotion to these symbolic figures ; which, when it came to be paid to the living animal, would soon terminate in an ultimate worship.
الصفحة 385 - ... plain the Enemy would not have declared War against us, had they not first made the necessary Preparations : while, on our side, none takes any care how we may resist them in the best manner possible. If we are remiss, and fall under the Power of the King, what have we to expect from him, who cut off the Head and Hand of his own Brother, even after he was dead, and fixed them upon a Stake?

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