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... Infinite . So neither can we comprehend ourselves ; our own existence is a mystery , and we are surrounded with problems that we cannot solve . The lowest and the highest manifestation of life is alike a secret that baffles the most ...
... Infinite . So neither can we comprehend ourselves ; our own existence is a mystery , and we are surrounded with problems that we cannot solve . The lowest and the highest manifestation of life is alike a secret that baffles the most ...
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... infinite ; and last and chiefly , on the absence of demonstration itself , which , it is taken for granted , is quite as essential in this case as for establishing a proposition in geometry . To take away the whole basis of these ...
... infinite ; and last and chiefly , on the absence of demonstration itself , which , it is taken for granted , is quite as essential in this case as for establishing a proposition in geometry . To take away the whole basis of these ...
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... infinite , are always and necessarily adequate to the end proposed . The laws of motion , gravitation , affinity , and the like , are only expressions of the regularity and continuity of one infinite cause . The order of nature is the ...
... infinite , are always and necessarily adequate to the end proposed . The laws of motion , gravitation , affinity , and the like , are only expressions of the regularity and continuity of one infinite cause . The order of nature is the ...
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... Infinite One . How else , indeed , can we attach any meaning to the attributes of omnipresence and omnipotence ? The unity of action , the regularity of antecedence and conse- quence in outward events , which we commonly designate by ...
... Infinite One . How else , indeed , can we attach any meaning to the attributes of omnipresence and omnipotence ? The unity of action , the regularity of antecedence and conse- quence in outward events , which we commonly designate by ...
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... infinite , and in the other it is finite , or limited , so that the whole result which was contemplated does not always follow . The Creator , then , is no longer banished from his creation , nor is the latter an orphan , or a deserted ...
... infinite , and in the other it is finite , or limited , so that the whole result which was contemplated does not always follow . The Creator , then , is no longer banished from his creation , nor is the latter an orphan , or a deserted ...
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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.