Sacred History of the World Attempted to be Philosophically Considered in a Series of Letters to a Son, Volume 2Longman, 1834 - Religion and science |
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... tion of them . These acquisitions can be realised only from the sources which He has provided for this purpose to us , and these will always be His works , His ways and His express communications . The study of these will constitute ...
... tion of them . These acquisitions can be realised only from the sources which He has provided for this purpose to us , and these will always be His works , His ways and His express communications . The study of these will constitute ...
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... tion . Such results are evidence of a contriving and presiding mind , and are what intelligent agency alone could produce . When effects or events occur telligent ; the one in form , and the incorruptible ; and when it goes from hence ...
... tion . Such results are evidence of a contriving and presiding mind , and are what intelligent agency alone could produce . When effects or events occur telligent ; the one in form , and the incorruptible ; and when it goes from hence ...
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... tion . We need not therefore dread any thing on this ground from the study of our diviner science . Increase of knowlege always puts our minds into a different state to that which they were in before it accrued . New thoughts and views ...
... tion . We need not therefore dread any thing on this ground from the study of our diviner science . Increase of knowlege always puts our minds into a different state to that which they were in before it accrued . New thoughts and views ...
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... tion . Hence it becomes insulated from all our other knowlege and power , and withers away from a con- siderable part of our social mind , because we will not cultivate it . Thus our ideas and views on this remain unallied with all our ...
... tion . Hence it becomes insulated from all our other knowlege and power , and withers away from a con- siderable part of our social mind , because we will not cultivate it . Thus our ideas and views on this remain unallied with all our ...
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... tion of the world , and was the most informed of all his countrymen , yet was so paralysed in his own judgment by the chaos of the opinions he found started on this topic , that , in his most elaborate work upon it , he contents himself ...
... tion of the world , and was the most informed of all his countrymen , yet was so paralysed in his own judgment by the chaos of the opinions he found started on this topic , that , in his most elaborate work upon it , he contents himself ...
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Page 29 - I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 223 - O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive...
Page 281 - Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
Page 223 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Page 284 - And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering...
Page 518 - Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham ; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
Page 224 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing...
Page 240 - O'er moor and mountain green, O'er the red streamer that heralds the day, Over the cloudlet dim, Over the rainbow's rim, Musical cherub, soar, singing, away! Then, when the gloaming comes, Low in the heather blooms Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be! Emblem of happiness, Blest is thy dwelling-place, — Oh, to abide in the desert with thee ! JAMES HOGG To the Cuckoo O BLITHE new-comer!
Page 210 - For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, And the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream : Then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, And be dandled upon her knees. As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you ; And ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
Page 210 - When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.