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... duty to prefer an im- portant truth before my respect to any man , how eminent soever , -that opposes it ; and to consider more the glory of the great Author of Nature , than the reputation of any one of her interpre- -ters . " In this ...
... duty to prefer an im- portant truth before my respect to any man , how eminent soever , -that opposes it ; and to consider more the glory of the great Author of Nature , than the reputation of any one of her interpre- -ters . " In this ...
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... duty in volved in the study of final causes . In a scheme so vast and complicated , all the ends of God may not be equally intelligible ; but some may be so self - evident that we must abjure reason itself , as well as religion , if we ...
... duty in volved in the study of final causes . In a scheme so vast and complicated , all the ends of God may not be equally intelligible ; but some may be so self - evident that we must abjure reason itself , as well as religion , if we ...
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... duty to instruct the un- informed , and alleviate , so far as our power extends , the curse of ignorance which afflicts mankind . " These are enlightened and liberal views : They show that Mr. Irons , however wedded to the Church of ...
... duty to instruct the un- informed , and alleviate , so far as our power extends , the curse of ignorance which afflicts mankind . " These are enlightened and liberal views : They show that Mr. Irons , however wedded to the Church of ...
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... duty which we owe to the cause of truth , to vindicate the evidence of design from the exceptions which he has raised against it . The general object of his Dissertation , in so far as it relates to the doctrine of Final Causes , may be ...
... duty which we owe to the cause of truth , to vindicate the evidence of design from the exceptions which he has raised against it . The general object of his Dissertation , in so far as it relates to the doctrine of Final Causes , may be ...
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... duty to conform to nature , and they there- fore inquired into the facts of nature . But they were not in the habit of drawing any farther theoretical inferences . The moderns , on the contrary , build up a doctrine wholly on inferences ...
... duty to conform to nature , and they there- fore inquired into the facts of nature . But they were not in the habit of drawing any farther theoretical inferences . The moderns , on the contrary , build up a doctrine wholly on inferences ...
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Сторінка 27 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness : and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness ; and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; the valleys also are covered over with corn : they shout for joy, they also sing.
Сторінка 21 - GOD from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass : yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.
Сторінка 130 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly; if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch ' With his surcease success; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come.
Сторінка 31 - For every kind of beasts and of birds and of serpents and of things in the sea is tamed, and hath been tamed, of mankind; but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Сторінка 41 - God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah. 6 They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
Сторінка vi - HUNT.— RESEARCHES ON LIGHT : An Examination of all the Phenomena connected with the Chemical and Molecular Changes produced by the Influence of the Solar Rays : embracing all the known Photographic Processes, and new Discoveries in the Art By ROBERT HUNT, Keeper of Mining Records, Museum of Practical Geology.
Сторінка 3 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Сторінка 313 - I leave a mourning ring to my honoured and dear friends, and disinterested fellow labourers, the Rev. Messrs. John and Charles Wesley, in token of my indissoluble union with them, in heart and Christian affection, notwithstanding our difference in judgment about some particular points of doctrine."!
Сторінка 179 - As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place...
Сторінка 119 - And while the moralist, who is holding forth on the cover (an accurate portrait of your humble servant), professes to wear neither gown nor bands, but only the very same long-eared livery in which his congregation is arrayed : yet, look you, one is bound to speak the truth as far as one knows it, whether one mounts a cap and bells or a shovelhat ; and a deal of disagreeable matter must come out in the course of such an undertaking.