Essay on Superstition: Being an Inquiry Into the Effects of Physical Influence on the Mind, in the Production of Dreams, Visions, Ghosts, and Other Supernatural AppearancesJ. Hatchard and son, 1830 - 430 pages |
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... individuals ; let us look to the mummery of his religion , to its imposing ceremonial , and its dread of the ... individual ac- countability ; his mind is grasped by the terrors of superstition , as by a chain of adamant ; he has ...
... individuals ; let us look to the mummery of his religion , to its imposing ceremonial , and its dread of the ... individual ac- countability ; his mind is grasped by the terrors of superstition , as by a chain of adamant ; he has ...
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... individuals of whose intellectual capacity he can entertain no doubt ; and when he perceives that such minds are only energised in the pur- suit of knowledge , and refined , and purified ; when the powers of the judgment are confessedly ...
... individuals of whose intellectual capacity he can entertain no doubt ; and when he perceives that such minds are only energised in the pur- suit of knowledge , and refined , and purified ; when the powers of the judgment are confessedly ...
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... individual will be increased , while his capacity for usefulness , and his desire after it , will be augmented ; the productions of reason and intellect will be estimated aright , and will be tested , as they ought to be , by their ...
... individual will be increased , while his capacity for usefulness , and his desire after it , will be augmented ; the productions of reason and intellect will be estimated aright , and will be tested , as they ought to be , by their ...
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... individuals ; and we ima- gine their form , and feature , and expression . It is by this property that we fabricate for ourselves an idea of persons we have never seen , but which we consider as appropriate to certain characters , and ...
... individuals ; and we ima- gine their form , and feature , and expression . It is by this property that we fabricate for ourselves an idea of persons we have never seen , but which we consider as appropriate to certain characters , and ...
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... individual ; and by the degree in which education has developed his intellectual powers , the closeness with which he has been accustomed to reason , and the ex- tent to which he has disciplined his mind to believe only that which is ...
... individual ; and by the degree in which education has developed his intellectual powers , the closeness with which he has been accustomed to reason , and the ex- tent to which he has disciplined his mind to believe only that which is ...
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Page 178 - Christian repels them with the shield of faith, and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. He possesses the divine word which is full of promises, and that faith which is a deep conviction of things not seen, and the substance or foundation of things hoped for. Therefore he gives no quarter to unbelief; God hath spoken, it is enough. There is a mansion for him ; he will...
Page 258 - And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
Page 292 - For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities ; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Page 319 - Veritate, in my hand, and, kneeling on my knees, devoutly said these words: — ' ' O thou eternal God, Author of the light which now shines upon me, and Giver of all inward illuminations, I do beseech Thee, of Thy infinite goodness, to pardon a greater request than a sinner ought to make ; I am not satisfied enough whether I shall publish this book, De Veritate; if it be for Thy glory, I beseech Thee give me some sign from heaven ; if not, I shall suppress it.
Page 287 - And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God.
Page 60 - Moreover by them is thy servant warned : and in keeping of them there is great reward. Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults. Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins ; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
Page 180 - It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
Page 417 - I must work the works of Him that sent Me while it is day, for the night cometh when no man can work d ." Two doctrines, both of them distinctly Christian, throw their guardian shadows over the lesson.
Page 376 - Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.