The Principles of Metaphysical and Ethical Science Applied to the Evidences of ReligionHickling, Swan and Brown, 1855 - 487 pagina's |
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The Principles of Metaphysical and Ethical Science Applied to the Evidences ... Francis Bowen Volledige weergave - 1855 |
The Principles of Metaphysical and Ethical Science: Applied to the Evidences ... Francis Bowen Volledige weergave - 1855 |
The Principles of Metaphysical and Ethical Science Applied to the Evidences ... Francis Bowen Fragmentweergave - 1855 |
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absolute abstract action admit agency animal antecedent appetites applied argument argument from design attributes believe benevolence body brute called causation character chemical affinity Christianity conceive conception conclusion conduct conscience consciousness consequences considered constitution contrivance creation Creator Deity desires distinct Divine doctrine Dugald Stewart duty earth effect efficient cause enjoyment evidence evil exertion existence experience external eyes fact faculty happiness human idea induction infer infinite infinite series inquiry instance instinct intellect J. S. Mill knowledge Manichæans material matter means ment metaphysical mind moral moral universe motion motives Natural Religion natural theology necessary never object obligation observation organs origin outward perfect person phenomena philosophy physical science pleasure polytheism principles produced proof prove purpose reason relations of ideas religious respect revelation sense skepticism Spinoza suppose theory things tion truth universe virtue volition whole wisdom words
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Pagina 39 - THE heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.
Pagina 307 - Lord, with what care hast thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters Deliver us to laws : they send us bound To rules of reason, holy messengers, Pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, Afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes...
Pagina 383 - When the loose mountain trembles from on high, Shall gravitation cease, if you go by ? Or some old temple, nodding to its fall, For Chartres' head reserve the hanging wall ? But still this world (so fitted for the knave) Contents us not.
Pagina 393 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Pagina 32 - I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it —
Pagina 158 - That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Pagina 441 - The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice, and shall come forth : they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation...
Pagina 384 - What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sun-shine, and the heart-felt joy, Is Virtue's prize...
Pagina 482 - And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes : and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
Pagina 149 - The secrets of the hoary deep; a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand.