Wilford's Microcosm, Volume 4Hall, 1884 - Philosophy |
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... existence : and , anterior to the most Amidst all this equestrian agility of march - attenuated form of their real existence , many ing and countermarching of aerial cavalry , our credulity is taxed almost to an eruptive tension to ...
... existence : and , anterior to the most Amidst all this equestrian agility of march - attenuated form of their real existence , many ing and countermarching of aerial cavalry , our credulity is taxed almost to an eruptive tension to ...
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... existence be maintained . To enable the physical man to retain and to maintain his individuality , he is endowed with the power of constant differentiation of the faculties . This power of differentiation in the soul , alone , preserves ...
... existence be maintained . To enable the physical man to retain and to maintain his individuality , he is endowed with the power of constant differentiation of the faculties . This power of differentiation in the soul , alone , preserves ...
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... existence of incorporeal substance in the universe , the unsatisfactory inductions of separatism ignore the essential relations between the respective parts thereof . Machine philosophy looks upon each order of existing entities , and ...
... existence of incorporeal substance in the universe , the unsatisfactory inductions of separatism ignore the essential relations between the respective parts thereof . Machine philosophy looks upon each order of existing entities , and ...
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... existence of amorphous matter , and , after floundering through the most earnest ages and stages of its inquiry for truth , con- fessed its utter helplessness by a dedication of its idolatrous temples " To the unknown God ...
... existence of amorphous matter , and , after floundering through the most earnest ages and stages of its inquiry for truth , con- fessed its utter helplessness by a dedication of its idolatrous temples " To the unknown God ...
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... existence of some- world ; to see and converse with spirits and what from which it originates . As reasonably angels face to face . " " Although a century talk of making a garment without using mate- before modern spiritualism , there ...
... existence of some- world ; to see and converse with spirits and what from which it originates . As reasonably angels face to face . " " Although a century talk of making a garment without using mate- before modern spiritualism , there ...
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Page 165 - These angels and men thus predestinated, and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed, and their number is so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.
Page 179 - He bowed the heavens also, and came down : and darkness was under His feet. And He rode upon a cherub, and did fly : yea, He did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Page 367 - 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 170 - Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
Page 179 - Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain : Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters : who maketh the clouds his chariot ; who walketh upon the wings of the wind...
Page 48 - And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Page 75 - Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself; That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him...
Page 109 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 371 - I cannot refrain from adding that the collection of tracts, which we call, from their excellence, the Scriptures, contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected, within the same compass, from all other books that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom.
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