Lectures on the Atomic Theory, and Essays Scientific and Literary, Volume 2T. Constable and Company, 1858 - 741 pages |
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... light are accordingly so many shapes of the idealist . The passing age has long been and still is occupied with sensations , and with those general conceptions or natural laws which are derivable from the sensuous life . The new ...
... light are accordingly so many shapes of the idealist . The passing age has long been and still is occupied with sensations , and with those general conceptions or natural laws which are derivable from the sensuous life . The new ...
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... light from the eye , or from the finger to the brain , and say that the volition to raise the hand or open the mouth in speech , electrically thrills through the voluntative nerves from the brain to the muscles of these organs , but ...
... light from the eye , or from the finger to the brain , and say that the volition to raise the hand or open the mouth in speech , electrically thrills through the voluntative nerves from the brain to the muscles of these organs , but ...
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... and even by him only rarely , never continuously , and always partially as yet . Appear- ing in him as it has done , it has been called the Word- the light that lighteth every man that cometh into the 42 NATURE AND MAN .
... and even by him only rarely , never continuously , and always partially as yet . Appear- ing in him as it has done , it has been called the Word- the light that lighteth every man that cometh into the 42 NATURE AND MAN .
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Samuel Brown. the light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world - a particle of the Divine afflatus - the spiritual mind - the reason in distinction from the understanding , which every animal alive enjoys - the pure reason ...
Samuel Brown. the light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world - a particle of the Divine afflatus - the spiritual mind - the reason in distinction from the understanding , which every animal alive enjoys - the pure reason ...
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... light , whose celestial ray it is that kindles all the smaller orbs which revolve and sparkle round his central blaze . Hence Saint Paul tried to give a reason for the faith that was in him , and would have others do the same . Hence ...
... light , whose celestial ray it is that kindles all the smaller orbs which revolve and sparkle round his central blaze . Hence Saint Paul tried to give a reason for the faith that was in him , and would have others do the same . Hence ...
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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?