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  • Indeed, I have had no choice but to act in this manner, for with the exception of the Coral Reefs, I cannot remember a single first-formed hypothesis which had not after a time to be given up or greatly modified.

    Printing: Since Change is THE Issue, What is Change? 2008

  • Indeed, I have had no choice but to act in this manner, for with the exception of the Coral Reefs, I cannot remember a single first-formed hypothesis which had not after a time to be given up or greatly modified.

    Since Change is THE Issue, What is Change? 2008

  • Wherefore also the prophetic word declares of the first-formed man, "He became a living soul," [3296] teaching us that by the participation of life the soul became alive; so that the soul, and the life which it possesses, must be understood as being separate existences.

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

  • A _first-formed_ organized substance; primitive organic cell matter.

    A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

  • Only begotten, even the Wisdom [of God], should be joined to the first-formed man, and first and first-born of men, and should become incarnate.

    A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905

  • Perhaps his final place is yet to be fixed among the greater singers of America, but it is comforting to know that the clear light of dispassionate judgment of the receding years dispels the first-formed prejudices, and lifts the singer into nobler and yet nobler place.

    The old South, 1904

  • Kilshaw swallowed his first-formed words, and, after a moment's hesitation, put out his hand.

    Half a Hero A Novel Anthony Hope 1898

  • For the blood of the sheep is a type of the blood of Christ; and the firstborn, a type of the first-formed.

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • And inasmuch as the first-formed of necessity exists in us, and, in sequence of succession, is transmitted till the end, it follows that "in Adam" we "all die," [979] and that "death reigned" [980] until the fulfilling of the law and the coming of

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • And the Baron, for his part, was rapidly changing the first-formed estimate of his guest.

    The Wheel O' Fortune Louis Tracy 1895

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