Lectures on the Atomic Theory, and Essays Scientific and Literary, Volume 2T. Constable and Company, 1858 - 741 pages |
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... practice of prayer , there could never have existed so glorious a phenomenon as the history of nations . That principle is the being of God in the state of per- sonal relationship with man . It is neither through the telescopic ...
... practice of prayer , there could never have existed so glorious a phenomenon as the history of nations . That principle is the being of God in the state of per- sonal relationship with man . It is neither through the telescopic ...
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... practice of it , we shall be glad to bless God , who worketh in us to will and do according to His good pleasure : Shall we not ? Let us now see how Abraham knew that it was his duty to offer up Isaac , and observe how manfully he ...
... practice of it , we shall be glad to bless God , who worketh in us to will and do according to His good pleasure : Shall we not ? Let us now see how Abraham knew that it was his duty to offer up Isaac , and observe how manfully he ...
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... practice of that univer- sal hope and love , which naturally grows out of such humanising faith , one thing ' else is needful : ' and the second set of the sermons which you have bid me prepare will be wholly taken up with the ...
... practice of that univer- sal hope and love , which naturally grows out of such humanising faith , one thing ' else is needful : ' and the second set of the sermons which you have bid me prepare will be wholly taken up with the ...
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... practice of plastic art , was published some years ago in the pages of Black- wood's Magazine . It consisted of a series of curious dissertations on the distinguishing characteristics of Michael Angelo , Raphael , Titian , Coreggio ...
... practice of plastic art , was published some years ago in the pages of Black- wood's Magazine . It consisted of a series of curious dissertations on the distinguishing characteristics of Michael Angelo , Raphael , Titian , Coreggio ...
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... practice . On the one hand , many of the best of them have de- voted themselves to the cultivation of the medical sciences , willing to leave the art as they found it , and instinctively aware that scientific knowledge had to become ...
... practice . On the one hand , many of the best of them have de- voted themselves to the cultivation of the medical sciences , willing to leave the art as they found it , and instinctively aware that scientific knowledge had to become ...
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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?