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... thought , will wait for a prescription before he touches this , but he who chews , digests and assimilates for himself needs but to glance at the table of contents to find some things that he wants . The author of this book has been ...
... thought , will wait for a prescription before he touches this , but he who chews , digests and assimilates for himself needs but to glance at the table of contents to find some things that he wants . The author of this book has been ...
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... Thought Psychologically Possible- Equivalence of Expression Philologically Possible - Literary Economy- Recriminations of Translators and Editors - Modern Reader's Assurance that He gets the Meaning of the Ancient Writer - Provisional ...
... Thought Psychologically Possible- Equivalence of Expression Philologically Possible - Literary Economy- Recriminations of Translators and Editors - Modern Reader's Assurance that He gets the Meaning of the Ancient Writer - Provisional ...
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... Thought -Literature Chief Product of Mind - Taine's Imaginary Revolution , Intel- lectual and Literary - Misuse of Truisms - Unreasonable Account of Rise of Various Religions - Taine's Compliment to American Intellectuality - His ...
... Thought -Literature Chief Product of Mind - Taine's Imaginary Revolution , Intel- lectual and Literary - Misuse of Truisms - Unreasonable Account of Rise of Various Religions - Taine's Compliment to American Intellectuality - His ...
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... Thought , even the Thought Necessary to the Abstraction -Things Known Only by their Relations - Thing as a Thing in Itself , Un- thinkable - Relations of Things the Bulk of Knowledge - Philosophy De- generates into Apologetics . CHAPTER ...
... Thought , even the Thought Necessary to the Abstraction -Things Known Only by their Relations - Thing as a Thing in Itself , Un- thinkable - Relations of Things the Bulk of Knowledge - Philosophy De- generates into Apologetics . CHAPTER ...
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... Thought Unless Man can , Independently of his Antecedents and Environment , Determine his own Constitution and Education , he cannot be Accountable --- Reason cannot be Invoked to Verify Something not Understood — Apologetics Posits a ...
... Thought Unless Man can , Independently of his Antecedents and Environment , Determine his own Constitution and Education , he cannot be Accountable --- Reason cannot be Invoked to Verify Something not Understood — Apologetics Posits a ...
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Page 139 - Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the...
Page 217 - And, moved thro' life of lower phase, Result in man, be born and think, And act and love, a closer link Betwixt us and the crowning race Of those that, eye to eye, shall look On knowledge; under whose command Is Earth and Earth's, and in their hand Is Nature like an open book...
Page 42 - But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory...
Page 85 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall ; Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd ; And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Page 97 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancy'd life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Page 173 - Shall one by one be gathered to thy side, By those, who in their turn shall follow them.
Page 84 - tis confest That wisdom infinite must form the best, Where all must full or not coherent be, And all that rises, rise in due degree ; Then, in the scale of reas'ning life, 'tis plain, There must be, somewhere, such a rank as man: And all the question (wrangle e'er so long) Is only this, if God has plac'd him wrong?
Page 97 - Condition, circumstance, is not the thing ; Bliss is the same in subject or in king, In who obtain defence, or who defend, In him who is, or him who finds a friend : Heaven breathes through every member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
Page 50 - Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God ; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth ; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
Page 173 - Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon.