Li Hung Chang's Scrap-bookWatts, 1913 - 382 páginas |
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... tion could believe such an absurd superstition as ours , I attempted to show that we were not all superstitious ; that only a very limited number of our people , and those of the illiterate and unthinking class , believed in those forms ...
... tion could believe such an absurd superstition as ours , I attempted to show that we were not all superstitious ; that only a very limited number of our people , and those of the illiterate and unthinking class , believed in those forms ...
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... tion which has been communicated to Christianity , and to Christianity alone . Very few educated people in England regard the Bible as a source of super- natural enlightenment . Mr. Herbert Paul has re- marked that the Bible has , in ...
... tion which has been communicated to Christianity , and to Christianity alone . Very few educated people in England regard the Bible as a source of super- natural enlightenment . Mr. Herbert Paul has re- marked that the Bible has , in ...
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... tion . As the wickedness increased , the anger of God arose . He had known that this would happen , and had formed a plan to drown the whole race . After careful search , however , he found one family with some degree of honesty ...
... tion . As the wickedness increased , the anger of God arose . He had known that this would happen , and had formed a plan to drown the whole race . After careful search , however , he found one family with some degree of honesty ...
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... tion for more than twelve centuries - that is , from 400 A.D. to 1600 A.D. — since which time the power of the Church has been constantly declining . It was not long before the absurdities of the Biblical scheme began to dawn upon the ...
... tion for more than twelve centuries - that is , from 400 A.D. to 1600 A.D. — since which time the power of the Church has been constantly declining . It was not long before the absurdities of the Biblical scheme began to dawn upon the ...
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... tion as intelligence grew , and the mass of the people sank back into the dense ignorance from which the Roman Empire had begun to awaken them . As Ingersoll says : - " Through millions of ages , by countless efforts " to satisfy his ...
... tion as intelligence grew , and the mass of the people sank back into the dense ignorance from which the Roman Empire had begun to awaken them . As Ingersoll says : - " Through millions of ages , by countless efforts " to satisfy his ...
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Página 40 - Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
Página 8 - And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself: and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.
Página 8 - And he smote the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men : and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.
Página 8 - But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. 10 And thou shalt stone him with stones that he die...
Página 13 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother...
Página 172 - And I saw an Angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years...
Página 8 - Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord.
Página 366 - And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
Página 126 - There are parts of Asia Minor, of Northern Africa, of Greece, and even of Alpine Europe, where the operation of causes set in action by man has brought the face of the earth to a desolation almost as complete as that of the moon ; and though, within that brief space of time xvhich we call
Página 64 - V, solemnly rendered a decree that "the doctrine of the double motion of the earth about its axis and about the sun is false, and entirely contrary to Holy Scripture"; and that this opinion must neither be taught nor advocated. The same decree condemned all writings of Copernicus and "all writings which affirm the motion of the earth.