Lectures on the Atomic Theory and Essays Scientific and Literary, Volume 2Constable, 1858 |
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... expression of Cousin , ' It is the law of the Eternal Reason . ' This logical triad has even been proclaimed abroad , by certain specu- lators , as the sum and substance of the Christian Trinity . It is one of the purposes of the ...
... expression of Cousin , ' It is the law of the Eternal Reason . ' This logical triad has even been proclaimed abroad , by certain specu- lators , as the sum and substance of the Christian Trinity . It is one of the purposes of the ...
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... expression . It is older than the lyric , epic , or dramatic poem . It is not so recent as any of the shapes of art now extant , in truth ; always excepting such history as is in the book of Genesis , which is the VOL . II . B most ...
... expression . It is older than the lyric , epic , or dramatic poem . It is not so recent as any of the shapes of art now extant , in truth ; always excepting such history as is in the book of Genesis , which is the VOL . II . B most ...
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... accord- ingly to be gathered from the Acts of the Apostles , and from the Epistles , that the very earliest Christians sought 6 6 and found the expression of their heavenward aspirations in extemporary 18 THE FINITE AND.
... accord- ingly to be gathered from the Acts of the Apostles , and from the Epistles , that the very earliest Christians sought 6 6 and found the expression of their heavenward aspirations in extemporary 18 THE FINITE AND.
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... expression . Painting , sculpture , music , poetry itself will as soon cease to exist in outward arts so long as man perceives and loves the beautiful , as prayers wil ! give over being made so long as he recognises and wor- ships the ...
... expression . Painting , sculpture , music , poetry itself will as soon cease to exist in outward arts so long as man perceives and loves the beautiful , as prayers wil ! give over being made so long as he recognises and wor- ships the ...
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... expression of it has to be altered to 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 ...
... expression of it has to be altered to 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 ...
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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 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 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 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 124 - More servants wait on man Than he'll take notice of : in every path He treads down that which doth befriend him When sickness makes him pale and wan. O mighty love ! Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him.
Page 119 - Almighty, sinner's tower, Reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear, The six days' world-transposing in an hour, A kind of tune, which all things hear and fear ; Softness, and peace, and joy, and love, and bliss, Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary...
Page 66 - Abraham his father, and said, 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 burnt offering...
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, unto a land that I will shew thee...
Page 110 - Sir, I pray deliver this little book to my dear brother Ferrar, and tell him he shall find in it a picture of the many spiritual conflicts that have passed betwixt God and my soul, before I could subject mine to the will of Jesus my Master ; in whose service I have now found perfect freedom : desire him to read it ; and then, if he can think it may turn to the advantage of any dejected poor soul, let it be made public : if not, let him burn it ; for I and it are less than the least of God's mercies.