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... answer of his own , shall refuse to accept that of the querist . So habitual is this propensity that even irony fails to tell upon it : what is the use of quizzing the action of the lungs or the circulation of the blood ? In one ...
... answer of his own , shall refuse to accept that of the querist . So habitual is this propensity that even irony fails to tell upon it : what is the use of quizzing the action of the lungs or the circulation of the blood ? In one ...
Page xvii
... answered that first , there is good presumption that all kinds of human errors take opposite directions : and next that , if not , it would be of no more consequence than if all the clocks in the world were too fast , or all too slow ...
... answered that first , there is good presumption that all kinds of human errors take opposite directions : and next that , if not , it would be of no more consequence than if all the clocks in the world were too fast , or all too slow ...
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... answer has ever been given to the question , What science owed its birth or growth to Bacon's directions how to make a science ? Many have profited much by the descriptions which Bacon ( Beacon ? ) has given of error : a few may have ...
... answer has ever been given to the question , What science owed its birth or growth to Bacon's directions how to make a science ? Many have profited much by the descriptions which Bacon ( Beacon ? ) has given of error : a few may have ...
Page xxxv
... answered , ' I don't think a woman ought to rule over such a country as this . ' The case is extreme , no doubt : but it fugles admirably for a very large class of the philosophical principles . Politics and social economy are derived ...
... answered , ' I don't think a woman ought to rule over such a country as this . ' The case is extreme , no doubt : but it fugles admirably for a very large class of the philosophical principles . Politics and social economy are derived ...
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... answer , not only to the claims of Great Britain , but to that awkward question , ' How about the Negro ? ' 5. Though we have seen something of ' What else can it be ? ' I add an instance which came to my knowledge many years ago . A ...
... answer , not only to the claims of Great Britain , but to that awkward question , ' How about the Negro ? ' 5. Though we have seen something of ' What else can it be ? ' I add an instance which came to my knowledge many years ago . A ...
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Page 362 - And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.
Page 360 - And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do. ^And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man.
Page 367 - And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him : and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.
Page 359 - And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us.
Page 349 - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
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Page 360 - And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest : it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Page 353 - And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands; and he stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm.