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... thousands of ideas inconsistent with known and demonstrated facts . To me it seemed almost a crime to teach that this record was written by inspired men ; that slavery , polygamy , wars of conquest and extermination were right , and ...
... thousands of ideas inconsistent with known and demonstrated facts . To me it seemed almost a crime to teach that this record was written by inspired men ; that slavery , polygamy , wars of conquest and extermination were right , and ...
Page viii
... thousand years lurid with the fagots ' flames . Too great praise challenges attention , and often brings to light a thousand faults that otherwise the general eye would never see . Were we allowed to read the Bible as we do all other ...
... thousand years lurid with the fagots ' flames . Too great praise challenges attention , and often brings to light a thousand faults that otherwise the general eye would never see . Were we allowed to read the Bible as we do all other ...
Page ix
... , the winds and waves were music , and all the lakes , and 6treams , and springs , the mountains , woods and perfumed dells were haunted by a thousand fairy forms . They thrilled the veins of Spring with trem- PREFACE . IX.
... , the winds and waves were music , and all the lakes , and 6treams , and springs , the mountains , woods and perfumed dells were haunted by a thousand fairy forms . They thrilled the veins of Spring with trem- PREFACE . IX.
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... Thousands of ministers are anxious to give their honest thoughts . The hands of wives and babes now stop their mouths . They must have bread , and so the husbands and fathers are forced to preach a doctrine that they hold in scorn . For ...
... Thousands of ministers are anxious to give their honest thoughts . The hands of wives and babes now stop their mouths . They must have bread , and so the husbands and fathers are forced to preach a doctrine that they hold in scorn . For ...
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... thousands had been consoled in the hour of death by passages from the Koran ; that they had died with glazed eyes bright- ened by visions of the heavenly harem , and gladly left this world of grief and tears . We would have regarded ...
... thousands had been consoled in the hour of death by passages from the Koran ; that they had died with glazed eyes bright- ened by visions of the heavenly harem , and gladly left this world of grief and tears . We would have regarded ...
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Page 182 - Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee : and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great ; and thou shalt be a blessing: and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee : and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Page 111 - Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife : and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Page 326 - The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Page 63 - And God made the firmament, and divided the waters, which were under the firmament from the waters, which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Page 64 - There were giants in the earth in those days ; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Page 257 - ... If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods...
Page 303 - And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
Page 109 - And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
Page 146 - Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.