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... object and range of their studies , or unknown to themselves , intellectually confined within certain limits , the search after facts was allowed so to engross their minds , that the concourse of ideas was neglected . The ruins were ...
... object and range of their studies , or unknown to themselves , intellectually confined within certain limits , the search after facts was allowed so to engross their minds , that the concourse of ideas was neglected . The ruins were ...
Side x
... objects which it presents . I then undertook a minute examination of its details , and the opinion which I so formed , was , I confess , singularly severe . In some chapters I met with errors so grave and so numerous , as to persuade me ...
... objects which it presents . I then undertook a minute examination of its details , and the opinion which I so formed , was , I confess , singularly severe . In some chapters I met with errors so grave and so numerous , as to persuade me ...
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... object and principal design ; most of my additions have been made there , in order to place in a true and exact light the facts of which they are made up . I thought it necessary also , to explain and correct other chapters , such as ...
... object and principal design ; most of my additions have been made there , in order to place in a true and exact light the facts of which they are made up . I thought it necessary also , to explain and correct other chapters , such as ...
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... objects of their study . In tracing the history of the early church , I have been greatly assisted by the works of the learned Lardner , by Spittler's Compendium of Ecclesiastical History , Henke's Ecclesiastical History , Planck's ...
... objects of their study . In tracing the history of the early church , I have been greatly assisted by the works of the learned Lardner , by Spittler's Compendium of Ecclesiastical History , Henke's Ecclesiastical History , Planck's ...
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... object the activity of a mind , which , in easier circumstances , the quietude of his imagi- nation and the calm of his soul would probably have left without steady and definite employment . From his childhood this acti- vity manifested ...
... object the activity of a mind , which , in easier circumstances , the quietude of his imagi- nation and the calm of his soul would probably have left without steady and definite employment . From his childhood this acti- vity manifested ...
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