Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 2J.B. Lippincott Company, 1910 - American literature |
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... Church and State necessarily produced a shoal of tracts and pamphlets , which seldom rose to the level of literature , and have left us nothing of per- manent interest save the treatises on Tolera- tion and Government ( 1689-92 ) by ...
... Church and State necessarily produced a shoal of tracts and pamphlets , which seldom rose to the level of literature , and have left us nothing of per- manent interest save the treatises on Tolera- tion and Government ( 1689-92 ) by ...
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... Church College , Oxford , where he became lecturer on Greek and on rhetoric . He soon became disgusted with the verbal subtleties of the Aristotelian and scholastic philosophy ; and experiments in medicine show his bent towards the ...
... Church College , Oxford , where he became lecturer on Greek and on rhetoric . He soon became disgusted with the verbal subtleties of the Aristotelian and scholastic philosophy ; and experiments in medicine show his bent towards the ...
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... Church ; The English Galileo would have been driven from his posts a hundred years later had he not been content to keep his real views on theology in retentis . And the pious and orthodox Sir David Brewster , painfully disturbed by ...
... Church ; The English Galileo would have been driven from his posts a hundred years later had he not been content to keep his real views on theology in retentis . And the pious and orthodox Sir David Brewster , painfully disturbed by ...
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... church where the famous library was kept , we observed many fair monuments of princes of this family , some with Dutch , most with Latin epitaphs or inscriptions : others in the Franciscans church . In St. Peter's church also a great ...
... church where the famous library was kept , we observed many fair monuments of princes of this family , some with Dutch , most with Latin epitaphs or inscriptions : others in the Franciscans church . In St. Peter's church also a great ...
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... church in this world , David seems to have alluded in the name of the church ( Psalm , xlii . 7 ) : ' Abyss calls upon abyss at the noise of thy cataracts or water - spouts : all thy waves and billows have gone over me . ' It was no ...
... church in this world , David seems to have alluded in the name of the church ( Psalm , xlii . 7 ) : ' Abyss calls upon abyss at the noise of thy cataracts or water - spouts : all thy waves and billows have gone over me . ' It was no ...
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