Five Pebbles from the Brook

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Title: Five Pebbles from the Brook
Author: George Bethune English
Release Date: November 20, 2006 [EBook #19879]
Language: English
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FIVE PEBBLES
From
THE BROOK.
A Reply
TO
"A DEFENCE OF CHRISTIANITY"
WRITTEN BY
EDWARD EVERETT,
GREEK PROFESSOR OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY IN ANSWER TO "THE GROUNDS OF CHRISTIANITY EXAMINED BY COMPARING THE NEW TESTAMENT
WITH THE OLD"
BY GEORGE BETHUNE ENGLISH.
"Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?" "Should he reason with unprofitable talk?
or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?—Thou chooseth[fn1] the tongue of the crafty. Thy own mouth
condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee." "Behold I will make thee a new sharp threshing
instrument having teeth."
PHILADELPHIA:
PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR.
1824.
[PG Editor's Note: Many printer's errors in this text have been retained as found in the original—in particular the will be
found a large number of mismatched and wrongspace quotation marks.]
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