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... speaking of Life : they have enumerated certain functions , and have called such enumeration life ; now function is not life , but the result of life ; it is vital organ in action . Bichat defined life as " the sum- total of the ...
... speaking of Life : they have enumerated certain functions , and have called such enumeration life ; now function is not life , but the result of life ; it is vital organ in action . Bichat defined life as " the sum- total of the ...
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... speak , we praise Him , in everything we do , we must acknowledge Him ; we trace in all creation the same hand , in all its arrangements the same mind , and therefore in everything we think or act , to Him be all the Glory . " - The ...
... speak , we praise Him , in everything we do , we must acknowledge Him ; we trace in all creation the same hand , in all its arrangements the same mind , and therefore in everything we think or act , to Him be all the Glory . " - The ...
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... speaking , persons remember and forget certain things with as much regularity as if memory and attention were the result of wheelwork . A very common instance of forget- fulness is presented by persons posting letters without any ...
... speaking , persons remember and forget certain things with as much regularity as if memory and attention were the result of wheelwork . A very common instance of forget- fulness is presented by persons posting letters without any ...
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... speaking after the Schoolmen ( Philo- sophical Essays , p . 51 ) are " such things , or beings , which we conceive as the subjects or supporters of distinct qualities , and which subsist of themselves , without dependence upon any ...
... speaking after the Schoolmen ( Philo- sophical Essays , p . 51 ) are " such things , or beings , which we conceive as the subjects or supporters of distinct qualities , and which subsist of themselves , without dependence upon any ...
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... speak to this young man , " & c .; and out of Rev. xii . 7 , where Michael and his angels fought with the dragon and his angels . The number of just seven supreme angels Grotius conceived to be drawn from the seven chief princes of the ...
... speak to this young man , " & c .; and out of Rev. xii . 7 , where Michael and his angels fought with the dragon and his angels . The number of just seven supreme angels Grotius conceived to be drawn from the seven chief princes of the ...
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Page 111 - How oft when men are at the point of death Have they been merry! which their keepers call A lightning before death: O, how may I Call this a lightning?
Page 222 - He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment ; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Page 215 - For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another ; though my reins be consumed within me.
Page 138 - A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his fingers...
Page 117 - And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven. And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer...
Page 5 - The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul : the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart : the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Page 54 - Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not : for I am thy fellow-servant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book : worship God.
Page 195 - For the living know that they shall die : but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; neither have they any more a portion for ever in anything that is done under the sun.
Page 86 - Great wits are sure to madness near allied; And thin partitions do their bounds divide: Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
Page 110 - ... that a friend is far more than himself. Men have their time, and die many times in desire of some things which they principally take to heart: the bestowing of a child, the finishing of a work, or the like. If a man have a true friend, he may rest almost secure that the care of those things will continue after him. So that a man hath as it were two lives in his desires.