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Art in the House: Historical, Critical, and Aesthetical Studies on the ... - Page 93
by Jacob von Falke - 1879 - 356 pages
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The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume 9

William Jones - 1807 - 566 pages
...confift), were common to both of them in an equal degree, and both pofleffed that roundnefs of expreffion, to which nothing could be added, and from which nothing could be removed without deftroying its juftnefs and fymmetry j but the orations of Lyfias had all that fweet...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 29

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1823 - 636 pages
...visible objects, the human form. He is the most perfect specimen of that Attic roundness in oratory, to which nothing could be added, and from which nothing could be removed without destroying its justness and symmetry; and of •which those who assist their mental...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 29

English literature - 1823 - 616 pages
...visible objects, the human form. He is the most perfect specimen of that Attic roundness in oratory, to which nothing could be added, and from which nothing could be removed without destroying its justness and symmetry ; and of which those who assist their mental operations...
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Volume 8

Science - 1830 - 466 pages
...been scarcely understood, wished to exhibit them pedantically, as collections of infallible oracles, to which nothing could be added, and from which nothing could be taken away ; but "because he saw in them the first attempts of genius to reduce to rules an order of facts which...
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An Introduction to the Books of the Old and New Testament

Adolf Schumann - Bible - 1849 - 356 pages
...had to do with printed books — books, that is, which at once took a definite and finished shape, to which nothing could be added, and from which nothing could be taken. Such is not the fact. The Canon was slowly formed in the course of ages by repeated additions, all...
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The Dublin Review, Volume 42

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1857 - 576 pages
...Saviour, which breathed in its every thought, word, and act, a holiness altogether divine — a holiness to which nothing could be added, and from which nothing could be taken. In these and in other ways, the Divine, no less than the Human Nature of Our Blessed Saviour was made...
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History of the Consulate and the Empire of France Under Napoleon, Volume 4

Adolphe Thiers - France - 1864 - 580 pages
...could not be expressed unless he were surrounded by his cardinals,) at least bis personal inclination, to which nothing could be added and from which nothing could be taken away. Urged by the entreaties of the four prelates, and by the announcement of their departure, be allowed...
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Foliorum centuriae, selections for translation into Latin and Greek prose ...

Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 pages
...perspicuity, were common to both of them in an equal degree, and both possessed that roundness of expression, to which nothing could be added, and from which nothing could be removed without destroying its justness and symmetry; but the orations of Lysias had all that sweet...
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The person and work of the Holy Ghost, lectures

William Henry Hutchings - 1876 - 266 pages
...into all truth." They possessed an entire revelation, the faith "once delivered unto the Saints," 1 to which nothing could be added, and from which nothing could be taken away. They were able to confront the blinding errors of the world, the pride, avarice, and lust, of a corrupt...
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Humboldt library of science. no. 118 | pt. 2, 1889, Issue 118, Part 2

1889 - 84 pages
...manners. This book came to ba accepted as the inspired word of Allah, which it was impious to question, to which nothing could be added, and from which nothing could be taken away. Hence Mahometanism has become what we see it — a narrow and fanatical creed, incompatible with progress...
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