The Methodist Quarterly Review, Volume 29G. Lane and P.P. Sanford, 1847 - Methodist Church |
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... effect ; it certainly has no foundation in truth . The opinion of Copernicus , said Bacon , touching the rotation of the earth , " is not repugnant to any of the phenomena . " The opposite system , said he , " at present , appears to us ...
... effect ; it certainly has no foundation in truth . The opinion of Copernicus , said Bacon , touching the rotation of the earth , " is not repugnant to any of the phenomena . " The opposite system , said he , " at present , appears to us ...
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... Re- view , and afterward in his Miscellanies . It is impossible , however , that our admiration should be unqualified , when we perceive that the brilliant effect of antithesis has been so often substituted 1847. ] 31 Bacon's Philosophy .
... Re- view , and afterward in his Miscellanies . It is impossible , however , that our admiration should be unqualified , when we perceive that the brilliant effect of antithesis has been so often substituted 1847. ] 31 Bacon's Philosophy .
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the brilliant effect of antithesis has been so often substituted for the sober light of truth . Whenever the writer seizes the truth , no one can present it to the mind of the reader with greater fullness or vividness of illustration ...
the brilliant effect of antithesis has been so often substituted for the sober light of truth . Whenever the writer seizes the truth , no one can present it to the mind of the reader with greater fullness or vividness of illustration ...
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... effect , as well as to point out his manifold dangers in order that he might escape them . Nature might have been left to herself if she had not been eternally drawn from her course by the operation of mighty causes , whose influence ...
... effect , as well as to point out his manifold dangers in order that he might escape them . Nature might have been left to herself if she had not been eternally drawn from her course by the operation of mighty causes , whose influence ...
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... effects : but that our dwelling so long and anxiously on experience and matter , and the fluctuating state of particulars , fas- tens the mind to earth , or casts it down into an abyss of confusion and disturbance , and separates and ...
... effects : but that our dwelling so long and anxiously on experience and matter , and the fluctuating state of particulars , fas- tens the mind to earth , or casts it down into an abyss of confusion and disturbance , and separates and ...
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Page 135 - Gentiles, knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
Page 423 - For scarcely for a righteous man will one die ; yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Page 185 - Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities ; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Page 124 - But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held ; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
Page 383 - God, being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus ; whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood...
Page 135 - I am crucified with Christ : nevertheless, I live ; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me : and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Page 440 - His death and passion: and grant, that the grace of God, which bringeth salvation, may effectually teach and persuade me to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world...
Page 34 - For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.
Page 136 - For as many as are of the works of the law, are under the curse : for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
Page 521 - Homer ruled as his demesne ; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold : Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He...