The Works of Richard Bentley, D. D.F. Macpherson, 1838 - Classical poetry |
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Page 48
... plain and smooth bowling - green , will run necessarily and fatally in a direct motion ; but if it be made with a bias , that may decline it a little from a straight line , it may acquire by that mo- tion a liberty of will , and so run ...
... plain and smooth bowling - green , will run necessarily and fatally in a direct motion ; but if it be made with a bias , that may decline it a little from a straight line , it may acquire by that mo- tion a liberty of will , and so run ...
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... plain , by the very convexity of the earth ; unless we could always inhabit the tops of mountains and cliffs , or had wings too to fly aloft , when we had a mind to take a prospect . And if mankind had had wings ( as perhaps some ...
... plain , by the very convexity of the earth ; unless we could always inhabit the tops of mountains and cliffs , or had wings too to fly aloft , when we had a mind to take a prospect . And if mankind had had wings ( as perhaps some ...
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... plain that no animals ought now to be found but such as have due organs necessary for their own nourishment and increase of their kinds : so that this boasted usefulness of parts , which makes men attribute their origination to an in ...
... plain that no animals ought now to be found but such as have due organs necessary for their own nourishment and increase of their kinds : so that this boasted usefulness of parts , which makes men attribute their origination to an in ...
Page 113
... plain that the different position and situation of these thousand parts would make so many differing com- pounds and distinct species of animals . And if only twenty- four parts , as before , may be so multifariously placed and ordered ...
... plain that the different position and situation of these thousand parts would make so many differing com- pounds and distinct species of animals . And if only twenty- four parts , as before , may be so multifariously placed and ordered ...
Page 129
... plain : for the heathen theology made even the gods them- selves subject to human passions and appetites , to anger , sorrow , lust , hunger , wounds , lameness , & c . and exempted them from nothing but death and old age : P and we ...
... plain : for the heathen theology made even the gods them- selves subject to human passions and appetites , to anger , sorrow , lust , hunger , wounds , lameness , & c . and exempted them from nothing but death and old age : P and we ...
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Page 32 - ... that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he be not far from every one of us : For in him we live, and move and have our being ; as certain also of your own poets [have said, for we are also his offspring.
Page 173 - Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page 26 - Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
Page 31 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Page 241 - For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
Page 211 - It is inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must be, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it.
Page 1 - THE FOOL hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Page 380 - And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
Page 58 - Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason, man is not a fly.
Page 172 - Therefore with Angels and Archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify Thy glorious Name, evermore praising Thee and saying, HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, LORD GOD of hosts, heaven and earth are full of Thy glory. Glory be to Thee, O LORD MOST HIGH.