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... earth exists , or is ; it is equally a fact that the earth moves . That there is a sun in the heavens is a fact of one order ; that this sun illumines objects on the earth is a fact of a different order , — it is an event which takes ...
... earth exists , or is ; it is equally a fact that the earth moves . That there is a sun in the heavens is a fact of one order ; that this sun illumines objects on the earth is a fact of a different order , — it is an event which takes ...
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... earth , really distinct from nature , though pervading it with his presence , all - wise and all - powerful , the conscious Cause and present Ruler of all things . I am not taking these attributes for granted , but simply stating the ...
... earth , really distinct from nature , though pervading it with his presence , all - wise and all - powerful , the conscious Cause and present Ruler of all things . I am not taking these attributes for granted , but simply stating the ...
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... earth , put together with slow toil , and their history with difficulty spelt out . They do not rest on a few experiments carefully devised and with great labor repeated . The study of years is not required before their import can be ...
... earth , put together with slow toil , and their history with difficulty spelt out . They do not rest on a few experiments carefully devised and with great labor repeated . The study of years is not required before their import can be ...
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... earth is but a part , even on the supposition that the laws which now seem to control its action shall continue for ever in force , without restraint , limit , or interference from the omnipo- tent hand which first established them ...
... earth is but a part , even on the supposition that the laws which now seem to control its action shall continue for ever in force , without restraint , limit , or interference from the omnipo- tent hand which first established them ...
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... earth , the authority of its first magistrate , and the enactment of laws by its legislature ; that is , we rely upon sensible evidence , the testimony of others , and upon rea- soning from effects to causes , the usual media of ...
... earth , the authority of its first magistrate , and the enactment of laws by its legislature ; that is , we rely upon sensible evidence , the testimony of others , and upon rea- soning from effects to causes , the usual media of ...
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Page 24 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate— Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute — And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Page 283 - Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.
Page 297 - Lord, with what care hast thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters Deliver us to laws : they send us bound To rules of reason, holy messengers, Pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, Afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes...
Page 440 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word...
Page 377 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Page 136 - But wandering oft, with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not Thee, marks not the mighty Hand That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres ; Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring...
Page 144 - That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Page 422 - 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 441 - Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see: For I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them ; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
Page 137 - 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.