Wilford's Microcosm, Volume 4Hall, 1884 - Philosophy |
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... mind . Circumstances and inherited drift - wood . And no class is exempt . The qualities exert a great influence over him , but philosopher , as well as the barbarian , is under not a controlling one . If they did , there would its ...
... mind . Circumstances and inherited drift - wood . And no class is exempt . The qualities exert a great influence over him , but philosopher , as well as the barbarian , is under not a controlling one . If they did , there would its ...
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... mind , all the soul , all the strength . " And the metic . Yea , doubtless , I count all things but combination of all these , in their utmost ten- loss for the excellency of the knowledge of sion , the Bible calls LOVE . No room in ...
... mind , all the soul , all the strength . " And the metic . Yea , doubtless , I count all things but combination of all these , in their utmost ten- loss for the excellency of the knowledge of sion , the Bible calls LOVE . No room in ...
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... mind of Jehovah , which finds its full ex- pression in the fact and form of the Universe . Under any other view , creation can be regarded as only the first few spans of a bridge extend- ing from a finite shore toward the unknown and ...
... mind of Jehovah , which finds its full ex- pression in the fact and form of the Universe . Under any other view , creation can be regarded as only the first few spans of a bridge extend- ing from a finite shore toward the unknown and ...
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... mind have been reproduced in another mind , by coming into communication with the mesmerized subject . I know , too , that this is the very result which one is taught to expect from what Swedenborg has revealed . " harbor objections ...
... mind have been reproduced in another mind , by coming into communication with the mesmerized subject . I know , too , that this is the very result which one is taught to expect from what Swedenborg has revealed . " harbor objections ...
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my own mind . Yet I consoled myself by say - discussion ; or rather to make a few scientific ing , " The books say it is ... mind , the clearness of its perceptions , the strength and vigor of its faculties , the truth or falsity of the ...
my own mind . Yet I consoled myself by say - discussion ; or rather to make a few scientific ing , " The books say it is ... mind , the clearness of its perceptions , the strength and vigor of its faculties , the truth or falsity of the ...
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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.
Page 7 - Awake, awake ; put on thy strength, O Zion ; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city : for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.