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Jones was also a prolific writer of children’s books, including self-originated fairytales such as Nicobobinus.

From The Guardian • Jan. 22, 2020

As it assumes the possibility that life may be self-originated.

From Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science by Ackland, T. S. (Thomas Suter)

Here were no whirlwind, no chariots and horses of fire, no sudden rapture; but, as the narrative makes emphatic, a slow, leisurely, self-originated floating upwards.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke by Maclaren, Alexander

Dare we say that there was no self-subsistent, though we admit no self-originated, merit in the Christ?

From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

All comes to pass because He loves with a self-originated love, and in order that we may know the motive and principle of His acts.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Maclaren, Alexander