Lectures Delivered Before the Young Men's Christian Association, 1845-1846--1864-1865, Volume 12James Nisbet & Company, 1857 - Christianity |
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... objects independent of his will , which if he opened his eyes he must see , if he extended his hand he must touch . Some of these objects would appear to him to be endued with organs and with powers , at least of motion and action ...
... objects independent of his will , which if he opened his eyes he must see , if he extended his hand he must touch . Some of these objects would appear to him to be endued with organs and with powers , at least of motion and action ...
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... object , indepen- dent of any contrivance or forethought . Their ignorance rendered them humble , but left them ... objects , and more and more absorbed in the investigation of the manifold problems offered to his consideration by the ...
... object , indepen- dent of any contrivance or forethought . Their ignorance rendered them humble , but left them ... objects , and more and more absorbed in the investigation of the manifold problems offered to his consideration by the ...
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... object can produce any other inorganized object , any more than such latter object can produce itself ; for the multiplication of objects is but re- peating the difficulty , and cannot help us to its solution . The only source of active ...
... object can produce any other inorganized object , any more than such latter object can produce itself ; for the multiplication of objects is but re- peating the difficulty , and cannot help us to its solution . The only source of active ...
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... object , in the same sense in which the existence of man must be pre - supposed if we speak of any work of man . But enough of this stumbling on the dark mountains of pagan philosophy , whether ancient or modern - this walking " in the ...
... object , in the same sense in which the existence of man must be pre - supposed if we speak of any work of man . But enough of this stumbling on the dark mountains of pagan philosophy , whether ancient or modern - this walking " in the ...
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... objects around us- -to the " book of God's works , " as Bacon has termed it - any hasty law laid down by the intellect , and contradicted by the phenomena , is false , because it contradicts His will . So , in the moral world , all that ...
... objects around us- -to the " book of God's works , " as Bacon has termed it - any hasty law laid down by the intellect , and contradicted by the phenomena , is false , because it contradicts His will . So , in the moral world , all that ...
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Page 492 - And the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door : And his eyes have all the seeming Of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamplight o'er him streaming Throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow That lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore...
Page 159 - And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. 14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
Page 286 - For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God...
Page 227 - Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most Mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty. And in thy majesty ride prosperously, because of truth and meekness and righteousness ; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
Page 169 - Open to me the gates of righteousness ; I will go into them, and I will praise the Lord.
Page 264 - For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
Page 6 - ... if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way, as it might happen; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now, as a giant, doth run his unwearied course, should, as it were, through a languishing faintness, begin to stand and to rest himself...
Page 149 - And the scribe said unto Him, Well, Master, Thou hast said the truth: for there is one God ; and there is none other but He : and to love Him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, He said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God.
Page 225 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Page 503 - He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.