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... persons who unite with them a lively and steadfast faith , a devotional spirit , and a religious life ; but they have been stumbling - blocks to others , for whom alone I have endeavored to surmount " or remove them . The discussion of ...
... persons who unite with them a lively and steadfast faith , a devotional spirit , and a religious life ; but they have been stumbling - blocks to others , for whom alone I have endeavored to surmount " or remove them . The discussion of ...
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Francis Bowen. whose studies have not gone beyond the limit which every educated person at the present day is supposed to have reached . The business of a writer upon the Evidences is to reason , and not to preach . I have endeavored to ...
Francis Bowen. whose studies have not gone beyond the limit which every educated person at the present day is supposed to have reached . The business of a writer upon the Evidences is to reason , and not to preach . I have endeavored to ...
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... person must hold some opinions relative to each ; and these opinions form two mutually dependent creeds , which may be , in a greater or less degree , peculiar to himself , and of which the action and reaction are so nearly equal , that ...
... person must hold some opinions relative to each ; and these opinions form two mutually dependent creeds , which may be , in a greater or less degree , peculiar to himself , and of which the action and reaction are so nearly equal , that ...
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... person lives with whom they have not conversed . These contingent truths enter into all our inferences from the past , and all our calculations for the future ; man's life is guided by them , from the cradle to the grave . If it be ...
... person lives with whom they have not conversed . These contingent truths enter into all our inferences from the past , and all our calculations for the future ; man's life is guided by them , from the cradle to the grave . If it be ...
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... person , or a madman , I demur ; here is a particular case , and all the attendant circumstances must be noted ; it seems necessary to inquire what are the motives for giving intelligence to such a person , and what will be the probable ...
... person , or a madman , I demur ; here is a particular case , and all the attendant circumstances must be noted ; it seems necessary to inquire what are the motives for giving intelligence to such a person , and what will be the probable ...
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Page 49 - THE heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.
Page 425 - When the loose mountain trembles from on high, Shall gravitation cease, if you go by ? Or some old temple, nodding to its fall, For Chartres' head reserve the hanging wall ? But still this world (so fitted for the knave) Contents us not.
Page 42 - Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it —
Page 483 - The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice, and shall come forth : they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation...
Page 167 - The secrets of the hoary deep; a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand.
Page 426 - What nothing earthly gives or can destroy, The soul's calm sun-shine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize; a better would you fix? Then give humility a coach and six, Justice a conqueror's sword, or truth a gown, Or public spirit, its great cure, a crown.
Page 72 - In short, there are two principles which I cannot render consistent, nor is it in my power to renounce either of them, viz. that all our distinct perceptions are distinct existences, and that the mind never perceives any real connexion among distinct existences.
Page 239 - I say, that, if one train of thinking be more desirable than another, it is that which regards the phenomena of nature with a constant reference to a supreme intelligent Author. To have made this the ruling, the habitual sentiment of our minds, is to have laid the foundation of every thing which is religious. The world thenceforth becomes a temple, and life itself one continued act of adoration.