Biblic

"Biblic" in a Sentence (13 examples)

A late Writer . . in his Biblic Inquisitions.

Biblick Exercitations.

Not only the chain of ignorance, but alſo that curſed idolatrous mythology, which is the bulwark of ignorance and popery, received a deadly blow, by Luther’s reformation, but this was the effect of that divine and biblic revelation, which Thomas Paine ignorantly ridicules and rejects, as enſlaving the mind, and monopolizing profit.

Popery . . its anti-biblic origin.

Rejecting a biblic revelation of man and his destiny, Byron gave himself up to a belief in a dark and fatalistic creed, mysterious as monstrous, uncertain and undefined; […]

I contributed my own tributary stream of erudition, and we held a biblic colloquy in a language strangely varied with the French accent, the German accent and the unreasonable accent that used to be taught at Harvard.

Those geologists and naturalists who have an itch for contradicting biblic history, must, if they wish to convict it of falsehood, prove that man has been an inhabitant of this globe for more than about six thousand years.

I had lived like a monk in a cloister, / With tomes that were musty to smell, / A sort of gregarious oyster, / Encased in a biblic shell.

Should we think of Judas's 30 silver coins, we'd have the ratio of 10,000 forints for one biblic silver coin.

The second biblic revelation is more sophisticated than the first.

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The Biblic expression, as it is translated, ‘of the Ancient of Day’—which means, ‘He that existed before time,’ furnished the primitive artists, instead of an image of supreme majesty, only with the hoary image of age: and such a figure borne along by a globe of angels, and crowned with a kind of episcopal mitre, recurs on the bronzes of Lorenzo Ghiberti.

[…] if you told him of the researches made in order to rescue from oblivion the angarii and astandae, a kind of postal messengers of antiquity, or to connect the modern posts with the couriers of the remote periods of Biblic history, of the Roman era with its cursus publicus, and with the tabellarii of Charlemagne, […]

Martin Luther, saith the legend, / Seated in his study grim, / Conning some old Biblic story / When Old Nick appeared to him, / Neither gun or pistol had he / To oppose the one he feared, / So he threw the inkstand at him, / And the Devil disappeared.

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