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---- a second nature which destroys the former, 64

---- must be followed, 64

---- is our nature, 65

---- sways the automaton, which draws the intellect after, 77

---- how useful to accustom us to truth, 77

---- leads to a choice of occupation, 78

Cypher, types are a, with a double sense, 158

---- of the Scripture as given us by Saint Paul, 176

Cyrus, 128, 147, 151

Damned, the, condemned by their own reason, 296

Dancing, why pursued, 35

Daniel, the seventy weeks of, their calculation, 133, 143

---- the little stone of, 136

---- explanation of the dream of Nebuchadnezzar in, 141

---- vision of the ram and he-goat in, 142

---- his prophecy, 171

Darius, King of the Persians, 144

David, a single phrase of, 122

---- the kingdom of his race foretold by all the prophets, 132

---- witness of Christ, 140

---- foretold the Messiah, 170

Death, to be dreaded by those who are careless of religion, 5

---- Montaigne's opinions on, 17

---- fear of, 29

---- the thought of, is harder to bear than death itself, 38

---- feared Death, 232

Degrees, why there are different, among men, 56

Deism, almost as far removed from Christianity as atheism, 204

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