Lectures on the Atomic Theory, and Essays Scientific and Literary, Volume 2T. Constable and Company, 1858 - 741 pages |
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... - sand thousand faint and finite adumbrations of the Divine Mystery , flowing everywhere around as well as within us , is truly a glorious circumstance . The Mussulman is bound by his Bible , or Koran , not 6 THE FINITE AND.
... - sand thousand faint and finite adumbrations of the Divine Mystery , flowing everywhere around as well as within us , is truly a glorious circumstance . The Mussulman is bound by his Bible , or Koran , not 6 THE FINITE AND.
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... circumstance of this alternative , in fact , that renders the marriage of ideal truth with the sensuous life of man in any one so slow of consum- mation . But endeavour to realise in the imagination the first moment of the Adamic life ...
... circumstance of this alternative , in fact , that renders the marriage of ideal truth with the sensuous life of man in any one so slow of consum- mation . But endeavour to realise in the imagination the first moment of the Adamic life ...
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... circumstance that only a few men can be sages and poets , but it behoves all to be saints . Originaland native prayer should breathe forth from every bosom . But it is not so in fact . In the present reality of things it is a small ...
... circumstance that only a few men can be sages and poets , but it behoves all to be saints . Originaland native prayer should breathe forth from every bosom . But it is not so in fact . In the present reality of things it is a small ...
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... circumstances of its outward relations , to be the law and the prophets ; till it culminated at last , and was expanded into the glorious universal gospel of the life and death of our Lord and Saviour . By the life of Jesus , we mean ...
... circumstances of its outward relations , to be the law and the prophets ; till it culminated at last , and was expanded into the glorious universal gospel of the life and death of our Lord and Saviour . By the life of Jesus , we mean ...
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... circumstances , and will always have to be so ; and hence it is with singular propriety that Paul adduces the faith which empowered Abraham to stretch forth his hand , and take the knife to slay his son , as the fit analogon and mirror ...
... circumstances , and will always have to be so ; and hence it is with singular propriety that Paul adduces the faith which empowered Abraham to stretch forth his hand , and take the knife to slay his son , as the fit analogon and mirror ...
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Page 98 - Praise ye him, sun and moon : Praise him, all ye stars of light. Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, And ye waters that be above the heavens. Let them praise the name of the LORD: For he commanded, and they were created.
Page 100 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and CHANGED the glory of the uncorruptible God into AN IMAGE made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Page 61 - Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, and unto a land that I will show thee...
Page 66 - And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah ; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
Page 124 - For us the winds do blow; The earth doth rest, heaven move, and fountains flow; Nothing we see but means our good, As our delight or as our treasure. The whole is either our cupboard of food, Or cabinet of pleasure. The stars have us to bed; Night draws the curtain, which the sun withdraws; Music and light attend our head. All things unto our flesh are kind In their descent and being; to our mind In their ascent and cause.
Page 113 - Chase brave employments with a naked sword Throughout the world. Fool not ; for all may have, If they dare try, a glorious life, or grave.
Page 58 - ... a law in his members warring against the law of his mind, and bringing him into captivity to the law of sin which was in his members.
Page 118 - I GOT me flowers to straw Thy way; I got me boughs off many a tree: But Thou wast up by break of day, And brought'st Thy sweets along with Thee. The sun arising in the east, Though he give light, and th' east perfume; If they should offer to contest With Thy arising, they presume.
Page 48 - And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
Page 66 - My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood; but where is the lamb for a burntoffering?