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... respect , suited to the exigencies of own times . There are peculiar forms of infidelity , or peculiar causes of latitudinarian opinions in religion , which are more prevalent in one age than another . I have endeavored in this work to ...
... respect , suited to the exigencies of own times . There are peculiar forms of infidelity , or peculiar causes of latitudinarian opinions in religion , which are more prevalent in one age than another . I have endeavored in this work to ...
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... respect , and have placed too little stress upon sentiment , and too much upon argument , as if religion were less an affair of the heart than of the intellect . To this objection it may be answered , that belief is one thing , and the ...
... respect , and have placed too little stress upon sentiment , and too much upon argument , as if religion were less an affair of the heart than of the intellect . To this objection it may be answered , that belief is one thing , and the ...
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... respecting the origin and first principles of human knowledge must bear a close relation to that subject in regard to which knowledge is of the highest value , the doctrine of God , duty , and immortality . The religion of the Greeks ...
... respecting the origin and first principles of human knowledge must bear a close relation to that subject in regard to which knowledge is of the highest value , the doctrine of God , duty , and immortality . The religion of the Greeks ...
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... respect it , as an imperfect likeness of itself , in the bulk of mankind . According to this theory , there are many stages of progress for the human intellect , and men pass on from religion to philoso- phy , as they do from barbarism ...
... respect it , as an imperfect likeness of itself , in the bulk of mankind . According to this theory , there are many stages of progress for the human intellect , and men pass on from religion to philoso- phy , as they do from barbarism ...
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... respecting them . If this is the case with things which exist , it holds still more obviously true of events which ... respect- ing them depends on the axiom , that the course of nature is uniform , and under similar circumstances we ...
... respecting them . If this is the case with things which exist , it holds still more obviously true of events which ... respect- ing them depends on the axiom , that the course of nature is uniform , and under similar circumstances we ...
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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.