An American BibleРипол Классик, 1946 - 256 pages |
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... Century, need a book—many books -——of truth, for truth is relative, not fixed or static. This book, which we call An American Bible, is for people on this continent. ' (L This Arnerican Bible is fitted to the needs of.
... Century, need a book—many books -——of truth, for truth is relative, not fixed or static. This book, which we call An American Bible, is for people on this continent. ' (L This Arnerican Bible is fitted to the needs of.
Page 38
... fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. (I, Therefore I took some of the tales and turned them into verse ; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I also sometimes jumbled ...
... fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. (I, Therefore I took some of the tales and turned them into verse ; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I also sometimes jumbled ...
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... fixed in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error. And by such a manner, you can seldom hope to recommend yourself in pleasing your ...
... fixed in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error. And by such a manner, you can seldom hope to recommend yourself in pleasing your ...
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... Jesus and Socrates u- a. Y intention being to acquire the habitude of all these virtues, I judged it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once, but to fix it on one of them Page 48 AN AMERICAN BIBLE.
... Jesus and Socrates u- a. Y intention being to acquire the habitude of all these virtues, I judged it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once, but to fix it on one of them Page 48 AN AMERICAN BIBLE.
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Alice Hubbard. at once, but to fix it on one of them at a time, and, when I should be master of that, then to proceed to another, and so on, till I should have gone through all, and, as the previous acquisition of some might facilitate ...
Alice Hubbard. at once, but to fix it on one of them at a time, and, when I should be master of that, then to proceed to another, and so on, till I should have gone through all, and, as the previous acquisition of some might facilitate ...
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