Lectures on the Atomic Theory, and Essays Scientific and Literary, Volume 2T. Constable and Company, 1858 - 741 pages |
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... whole of Nature , and not the spiral nebula alone , is but one vast , many - winding , auroral , beautiful yet mysterious shell , brought hither in the beginning from the margent of the Divine Infinitude of Will : and , when the much ...
... whole of Nature , and not the spiral nebula alone , is but one vast , many - winding , auroral , beautiful yet mysterious shell , brought hither in the beginning from the margent of the Divine Infinitude of Will : and , when the much ...
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... whole man , and it crushes everything within us but the organs whereby it seizes us . Its innumerable phenomena unite with a multitude of scientific conceptions deduced from them , first to inveigle and then to rule us . They are a ...
... whole man , and it crushes everything within us but the organs whereby it seizes us . Its innumerable phenomena unite with a multitude of scientific conceptions deduced from them , first to inveigle and then to rule us . They are a ...
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... whole domain of nature is only a rare occurrence . It is not the purpose of God that it should be otherwise , else the present business of the world would be at a stand . A man is an animal in nature . In each human figure the soul is ...
... whole domain of nature is only a rare occurrence . It is not the purpose of God that it should be otherwise , else the present business of the world would be at a stand . A man is an animal in nature . In each human figure the soul is ...
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... whole body , which is just one composite organ of sensation , are themselves objects of sensation to him as much as the men and women , houses and streets of the city . Now , all that is individual , and not universal , in human thought ...
... whole body , which is just one composite organ of sensation , are themselves objects of sensation to him as much as the men and women , houses and streets of the city . Now , all that is individual , and not universal , in human thought ...
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... whole of nature , stars and all , the body of the soul ? Whatever be the last reply to this quaint inquiry , it is ... whole body will cease to be any more translucent to the soul than a statue of marble . The head cut off , the rest of ...
... whole of nature , stars and all , the body of the soul ? Whatever be the last reply to this quaint inquiry , it is ... whole body will cease to be any more translucent to the soul than a statue of marble . The head cut off , the rest of ...
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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?