Issues of the Age; Or, Consequences Involved in Modern ThoughtA.K. Butts & Company, 1874 - 166 pagina's |
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Pagina 14
... position ; nor is it because we cannot claim for the science of human nature a place beside astronomy as an exact science that we must therefore pronounce the impossibility of its being a science at all . Apply this argument to some of ...
... position ; nor is it because we cannot claim for the science of human nature a place beside astronomy as an exact science that we must therefore pronounce the impossibility of its being a science at all . Apply this argument to some of ...
Pagina 16
... position which , in addition to the dilemma in which it inevitably places us , can only meet with the same fate , from the gradual but certain encroachments of a strictly scientific spirit , that the ipse dixit of Canute did from the ...
... position which , in addition to the dilemma in which it inevitably places us , can only meet with the same fate , from the gradual but certain encroachments of a strictly scientific spirit , that the ipse dixit of Canute did from the ...
Pagina 21
... , assigns to them the position of minor auxiliaries , or , at best , mere " Four Phases of Morals , " by JOHN STUART BLACKIE , Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh . adumbrations of the truth - it is clear , in 21.
... , assigns to them the position of minor auxiliaries , or , at best , mere " Four Phases of Morals , " by JOHN STUART BLACKIE , Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh . adumbrations of the truth - it is clear , in 21.
Pagina 35
... position necessitates two things which no philosophical mind can for a moment entertain : first , the altogether erroneous idea that truth derives its existence from passive and not active conditions ; and second , that spirit of narrow ...
... position necessitates two things which no philosophical mind can for a moment entertain : first , the altogether erroneous idea that truth derives its existence from passive and not active conditions ; and second , that spirit of narrow ...
Pagina 43
... position to that skeptical tendency or attitude of doubt without which philosophy would be impossible . Or , again , as Lessing has beautifully expressed it : " Did the Almighty , holding , in his right hand , Truth , and , in his left ...
... position to that skeptical tendency or attitude of doubt without which philosophy would be impossible . Or , again , as Lessing has beautifully expressed it : " Did the Almighty , holding , in his right hand , Truth , and , in his left ...
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Pagina 72 - Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train And sable stole of cyprus lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes...
Pagina 111 - ORIGINAL sin standeth not in the following of Adam, (as the Pelagians do vainly talk ;) but it is the fault and corruption of the Nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam...
Pagina 110 - The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself, but for his posterity, all mankind descending from him by ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him in his first transgression.
Pagina 111 - By this sin they fell from their original righteousness and communion with God, and so became dead in sin, and wholly defiled in all the faculties and parts of soul and body.
Pagina 132 - The vain titles of the victories of Justinian are crumbled into dust: but the name of the legislator is inscribed on a fair and everlasting monument. Under his reign, and by his care, the civil jurisprudence was digested in the immortal works of the CODE, the PANDECTS, and the...
Pagina 106 - Between two worlds life hovers like a star, 'Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge. How little do we know that which we are ! How less what we may be...
Pagina 111 - Every sin, both original and actual, being a transgression of the righteous law of God, and contrary thereunto, doth in its own nature bring guilt upon the sinner, whereby he is bound over to the wrath of God, p.nd curse of the law, and so made subject to death, with all miseries spiritual, temporal and eternal.
Pagina 100 - PRAYER is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed ; The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast. 2 Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye When none but God is near.
Pagina 44 - How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge ! What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed ? a beast, no more.
Pagina 133 - But who shall estimate her influence on private happiness ? Who shall say how many thousands have been made wiser, happier, and better by those pursuits in which she has taught mankind to engage ; to how many the studies which took their rise from her have been wealth in poverty, liberty in bondage, health in sickness, society in solitude ? Her power is, indeed, manifested at the bar, in the senate, in the field of battle, in the schools of philosophy.