Lectures on the Atomic Theory, and Essays Scientific and Literary, Volume 2T. Constable and Company, 1858 - 741 pages |
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... sort . The very objects of such analyses are for the most part as unsubstantial as shadows before our eyes . Certain of the aboriginal and indestructible intuitions of humanity are darkened within us by reason of the excessive ...
... sort . The very objects of such analyses are for the most part as unsubstantial as shadows before our eyes . Certain of the aboriginal and indestructible intuitions of humanity are darkened within us by reason of the excessive ...
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... sort of dialectics that has been employed in the demon- stration referred to , will scarcely be able to feel the real- ity of the analysis in which that demonstration consists . They will probably be distrustful of it . It may sound ...
... sort of dialectics that has been employed in the demon- stration referred to , will scarcely be able to feel the real- ity of the analysis in which that demonstration consists . They will probably be distrustful of it . It may sound ...
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... sort of chevaux - de - frise against universal scep- ticism on the one hand , and what was then called idealism on the other . He asserted that it is a law of our nature to refer our perceptions of sensations to such outward matter ...
... sort of chevaux - de - frise against universal scep- ticism on the one hand , and what was then called idealism on the other . He asserted that it is a law of our nature to refer our perceptions of sensations to such outward matter ...
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Samuel Brown. haps we should not look for any second avatar of that sort , any more than for a repetition of the Greek life ; once done , the thing may have been done for ever ; and it must be owned , with boundless gratitude and wonder ...
Samuel Brown. haps we should not look for any second avatar of that sort , any more than for a repetition of the Greek life ; once done , the thing may have been done for ever ; and it must be owned , with boundless gratitude and wonder ...
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... sorted , anguish of all sizes . Fine nets and stratagems to catch us in , Bibles laid open , millions of surprises , ' Blessings beforehand , ties of gratefulness , The sound of glory ringing in our ears ; Without , our shame ; within ...
... sorted , anguish of all sizes . Fine nets and stratagems to catch us in , Bibles laid open , millions of surprises , ' Blessings beforehand , ties of gratefulness , The sound of glory ringing in our ears ; Without , our shame ; within ...
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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?