The Works of Thomas Dick, Volumes 1-4H. F. Summer & Company, 1836 |
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... millions , from among the mass of the people , to assert those rights and privileges , to which they are entitled as rational beings , and which had been withheld from them by the strong hand of power ; it stimulated them to in ...
... millions , from among the mass of the people , to assert those rights and privileges , to which they are entitled as rational beings , and which had been withheld from them by the strong hand of power ; it stimulated them to in ...
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... millions of human beings which people the globe we inhabit , there are not perhaps two millions whose minds are truly enlightened as they ought to be - who prosecute rational pursuits for their own sake , and from a pure love of science ...
... millions of human beings which people the globe we inhabit , there are not perhaps two millions whose minds are truly enlightened as they ought to be - who prosecute rational pursuits for their own sake , and from a pure love of science ...
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... millions be fixed in the contemplation of its multifarious and diversified objects and relations . Till the universe , in all its aspects , so far as it lies within the range of human inspection , be more particularly explored , clouds ...
... millions be fixed in the contemplation of its multifarious and diversified objects and relations . Till the universe , in all its aspects , so far as it lies within the range of human inspection , be more particularly explored , clouds ...
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... millions of such characters ) can never have his mind elevated to those sublime objects and contemplations which ... million of times larger than the earth , that light flies from his body at the rate small that the naked eye can ...
... millions of such characters ) can never have his mind elevated to those sublime objects and contemplations which ... million of times larger than the earth , that light flies from his body at the rate small that the naked eye can ...
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... millions of pores through which their odori- ferous effluvia exhale , their fine and delicate texture , their microscopical beauties , their or- ders , genera , and species , and their uses in the economy of nature . With the help of ...
... millions of pores through which their odori- ferous effluvia exhale , their fine and delicate texture , their microscopical beauties , their or- ders , genera , and species , and their uses in the economy of nature . With the help of ...
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Page 74 - No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another God dwelleth in us, and His love is perfected in us.
Page 55 - So shall it be at the end of the world : the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, and shall cast them into the furnace of fire : there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Page 55 - For he that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Page 83 - And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
Page 34 - Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
Page 164 - And all that believed were together, and had all things common ; and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
Page 62 - Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, And righteousness remain in the fruitful field. And the work of righteousness shall be peace ; And the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
Page 60 - I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live : I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
Page 118 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Page 75 - Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you, and persecute you : that ye may be the children of your Father who is in heaven : for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.