Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, Volume 10J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1883 |
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Page 143 - I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for salvation; and an assurance was given me, that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.
Page 208 - SANSKRIT AND ENGLISH. Translated, amended, and enlarged from an original compilation prepared by learned Natives for the College of Fort William by HH WILSON.
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Page 362 - In the universe there are from the beginning two spirits at work, the one making life, the other destroying it. 4. Both these spirits are accompanied by intellectual powers, representing the ideas of the Platonic system, on which the whole moral world rests. They cause the struggle between good and evil, and all the conflicts in tin: world, which end in the final victory of the good principle.