The Philosophical Dictionary for the Pocket: Written in French by a Society of Men of Letters, and Translated Into English from the Last Geneva Edition, Corrected by the Authors. With Notes, ...

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Страница 265 - I say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it...
Страница 264 - I will give thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven,
Страница 258 - And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, that Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying, Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.
Страница 147 - The fathers have eaten four grapes, " and the children's teeth are fet on edge...
Страница 331 - And thefe again are checked by man ; who in his turn fubmits to other natures, and refigns his form a facrifice in common to the reft of things.
Страница 160 - I say SENSIBLE ; for a monk, a hermit, may not be wicked, yet live a stranger to friendship. I add VIRTUOUS, for the wicked have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions, the designing have associates, the men of business have partners, the politicians form a factious band ; the bulk of idle men have connections ; princes have courtiers : but virtuous men alone have friends. Cethegus was Cataline's accomplice, and Mecenas was Octavius's courtier; but Cicero was Atticus's friend.
Страница 296 - The wrath of a king is as the roaring of a lion ; but his favour is as the dew upon the grass.
Страница 34 - Ask a Guinea Negro ; and with him beauty is a greasy black skin, hollow eyes, and a flat nose. Put the question to the devil, and he will tell you, that beauty is a pair of horns, four claws, and a tail.
Страница 13 - Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
Страница 334 - You may alfo fee, that the Apoftle traces this diforder to its very fource.— ' Wherefore as by " one man fin entered into the world, and death * by fin ; and fo death pafled upon all men, for * that all have finned.

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