Views of Christian Truth, Piety, and Morality: Selected from the Writings of Dr. Priestley : with a Memoir of His LifeJ. Munroe and Company, 1834 - 207 pagina's |
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Pagina x
... pleasure . " These studies he had never remitted in the midst of his previous occupations ; but he now devoted himself to them with more exclusive attention , and pursued them widely . From this time his publications became more fre ...
... pleasure . " These studies he had never remitted in the midst of his previous occupations ; but he now devoted himself to them with more exclusive attention , and pursued them widely . From this time his publications became more fre ...
Pagina xxxviii
... pleasure to omit any opportunity of renewing it . To you , Sir , we are indebted for the desire of improvement . You have given us habits of employing our leisure hours in the cultiva- tion of our understandings , in pursuits that ...
... pleasure to omit any opportunity of renewing it . To you , Sir , we are indebted for the desire of improvement . You have given us habits of employing our leisure hours in the cultiva- tion of our understandings , in pursuits that ...
Pagina xliv
... pleasure that I cannot describe , that I entered my new laboratory , and began the most common preparatory processes , with a view to some original inquiries . With what success I have labored , the public has already in some measure ...
... pleasure that I cannot describe , that I entered my new laboratory , and began the most common preparatory processes , with a view to some original inquiries . With what success I have labored , the public has already in some measure ...
Pagina lvii
... pleasure in translating more than I undertook before . Having leisure for miscellaneous reading , I have read almost the whole of Tacitus , which I had not done before , and I admire him more than I expected . I shall read many of the ...
... pleasure in translating more than I undertook before . Having leisure for miscellaneous reading , I have read almost the whole of Tacitus , which I had not done before , and I admire him more than I expected . I shall read many of the ...
Pagina lxi
... pleasure in my philosophical pursuits than any of my unchristian brethren . My views of these subjects give a dignity and importance to them , which , in the eye of the unbeliever , it is impossible they should have . " In a similar ...
... pleasure in my philosophical pursuits than any of my unchristian brethren . My views of these subjects give a dignity and importance to them , which , in the eye of the unbeliever , it is impossible they should have . " In a similar ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 22 - Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink ? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in ? or naked, and clothed thee ? or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
Pagina 35 - When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.
Pagina 23 - And call no man your father upon the earth : for one is your Father which is in heaven.
Pagina 165 - Socrates, which nobody presumes to doubt, is not so well attested as that of Jesus Christ. Such a supposition, in fact, only shifts the difficulty without obviating it ; it is more inconceivable that a number of persons should agree to write such a history, than that one should furnish the subject of it.
Pagina 23 - Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Pagina 35 - Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in, and dwell there : and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
Pagina 2 - For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Pagina 165 - What sweetness, what purity in his manners ! what an affecting gracefulness in his delivery ! what sublimity in his maxims ! what profound wisdom in his discourses ! what presence of mind, what subtlety, what truth in his replies!
Pagina 174 - Being, in whose hand our breath is, and whose are all our ways.
Pagina 165 - What presence of mind, what subtlety, what truth in his replies! How great the command over his passions! Where is the man, where the philosopher, who could so live, and so die, without weakness, and without ostentation...