Lectures on the Atomic Theory and Essays Scientific and Literary, Volume 2Constable, 1858 |
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... , who still descries Jehovah and adores , might be relieved of the doubt and dimness , with which the spirit of the times may perhaps have overfilmed his eye , if the rational ground of his belief were made clear to him THE INFINITE . 3.
... , who still descries Jehovah and adores , might be relieved of the doubt and dimness , with which the spirit of the times may perhaps have overfilmed his eye , if the rational ground of his belief were made clear to him THE INFINITE . 3.
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... perhaps all men will also think and create , during that expected summing - up of the ages of the world . In the meantime , the literature of prayer must be furnished by particular hands , as well as that of philosophy and poetry ; and ...
... perhaps all men will also think and create , during that expected summing - up of the ages of the world . In the meantime , the literature of prayer must be furnished by particular hands , as well as that of philosophy and poetry ; and ...
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... perhaps of the universe itself . The Old , however , was only the forerunner of the New Testament ; and the LIFE which is told in the latter could not have been produced till the national life , which had been sustained by the Old , had ...
... perhaps of the universe itself . The Old , however , was only the forerunner of the New Testament ; and the LIFE which is told in the latter could not have been produced till the national life , which had been sustained by the Old , had ...
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... perhaps just as well as could have been that the lot fell on this eleventh chapter and seventeenth verse of the Epistle to the Hebrews . It is the guiding and nobilitat- ing power of faith that is both the test and the glory of every ...
... perhaps just as well as could have been that the lot fell on this eleventh chapter and seventeenth verse of the Epistle to the Hebrews . It is the guiding and nobilitat- ing power of faith that is both the test and the glory of every ...
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... perhaps that such might be the foundation of a right Christian belief to others ; for , after all , this was only his scientific statement of the theorem of Christianity , which is a very different thing , for every man , from the ...
... perhaps that such might be the foundation of a right Christian belief to others ; for , after all , this was only his scientific statement of the theorem of Christianity , which is a very different thing , for every man , from the ...
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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.