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... objects which here attract , as power , riches , honour , knowledge , magnificence , and pleasure ; and which are earnestly , though vainly , confided in as fitted to promote it , has said with awing solemnity , " Let us hear the ...
... objects which here attract , as power , riches , honour , knowledge , magnificence , and pleasure ; and which are earnestly , though vainly , confided in as fitted to promote it , has said with awing solemnity , " Let us hear the ...
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... objects , origin , character , and end : incentives to its pro- secution . Success of self - taught men : examples . Mechanics ' Institutions : aid afforded by them to persons with limited means ; objections to them as favourable to ...
... objects , origin , character , and end : incentives to its pro- secution . Success of self - taught men : examples . Mechanics ' Institutions : aid afforded by them to persons with limited means ; objections to them as favourable to ...
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... in some measure , discern the qualities of the physical objects that surround them , remember events which have occurred to them , draw inferences from these events , and ITS DIFFERENT CHARACTERISTICS . 3 found their future procedure on.
... in some measure , discern the qualities of the physical objects that surround them , remember events which have occurred to them , draw inferences from these events , and ITS DIFFERENT CHARACTERISTICS . 3 found their future procedure on.
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... objects peculiar to it come under the form of quantity , quality , relation , and mode ; and the reason , judging that all the objects peculiar to it come in the form of intuitions of spirit . Thus with them the reason is only a higher ...
... objects peculiar to it come under the form of quantity , quality , relation , and mode ; and the reason , judging that all the objects peculiar to it come in the form of intuitions of spirit . Thus with them the reason is only a higher ...
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Designed for Yound Men James McCrie. OBJECT OF READING . 45 before them this great object - the improvement of their minds . Thus it is that , while they may read much , they are like those individuals who have a keen appetite , but a ...
Designed for Yound Men James McCrie. OBJECT OF READING . 45 before them this great object - the improvement of their minds . Thus it is that , while they may read much , they are like those individuals who have a keen appetite , but a ...
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Page 291 - Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates...
Page 73 - Keech, the butcher's wife, come in then and call me gossip Quickly? coming in to borrow a mess of vinegar ; telling us she had a good dish of prawns; whereby thou didst desire to eat some ; whereby I told thee they were ill for a green wound...
Page 229 - In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God : he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears. Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
Page 233 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as sea-men tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 202 - Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves ; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female...
Page 229 - Hast thou not known ? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary ? there is no searching of his understanding.
Page 278 - Abide with me from morn till eve, For without Thee I cannot live ; Abide with me when night is nigh, For without Thee I dare not die.
Page 460 - And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 206 - Sirs, why do ye these things ? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein : who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
Page 301 - So he turned and went away in a rage. And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it ? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?