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... individuals in the less educated ranks of life , should have given birth to no new school for investigating nature ; and the learned men who from time to time joined them were naturally scholars in the defective philosophies of Greece ...
... individuals in the less educated ranks of life , should have given birth to no new school for investigating nature ; and the learned men who from time to time joined them were naturally scholars in the defective philosophies of Greece ...
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... individuals . And here is a solution of objections which have been made to the existence of the moral sense , on the ground of the discordancy which exists among men as to the ex- cellence or demerit of particular actions . These ob ...
... individuals . And here is a solution of objections which have been made to the existence of the moral sense , on the ground of the discordancy which exists among men as to the ex- cellence or demerit of particular actions . These ob ...
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... individuals , merely for the sake of the definiteness of the practical im- pression which a personal presence produces . How , then , should the beauty of virtue move the heart , while it was an abstraction ? " Forma quidem hones- tatis ...
... individuals , merely for the sake of the definiteness of the practical im- pression which a personal presence produces . How , then , should the beauty of virtue move the heart , while it was an abstraction ? " Forma quidem hones- tatis ...
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... individual , and is an original element within us . Hume , in his Essay on Miracles , has well propounded a doctrine , which at the same time he misapplies . He speaks of " those dangerous friends or disguised enemies to the Chris- tian ...
... individual , and is an original element within us . Hume , in his Essay on Miracles , has well propounded a doctrine , which at the same time he misapplies . He speaks of " those dangerous friends or disguised enemies to the Chris- tian ...
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... individual who by his learning or philo- sophy in part achieves the task ! yet not gratitude in such a case to the Reason as a principle of research , which is merely undoing its own mischief , and poorly and tardily redressing its ...
... individual who by his learning or philo- sophy in part achieves the task ! yet not gratitude in such a case to the Reason as a principle of research , which is merely undoing its own mischief , and poorly and tardily redressing its ...
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Page 57 - Fret not thyself because of evildoers, Neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither as the green herb.
Page 241 - If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder come to pass whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them...
Page 231 - But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him : neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him ? But we have the mind of Christ.
Page 127 - 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 276 - For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another divers kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
Page 300 - BLESSED is the man that hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, and hath not sat in the seat of the scornful...
Page 301 - I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what He will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
Page 153 - He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; He burneth the chariot in the fire. Be still, and know that I am God : I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
Page 308 - For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
Page 153 - Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will show to you to-day : for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to-day, ye shall see them again no more for ever. The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.