Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1892 - 608 pages |
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Page viii
... follow the first ten purposes ) . And I de- clare the preceding ten purposes of this trust to be preferable , and I ... follows : -I having been for many years deeply and firmly convinced that the true knowledge of God , that is , of the ...
... follow the first ten purposes ) . And I de- clare the preceding ten purposes of this trust to be preferable , and I ... follows : -I having been for many years deeply and firmly convinced that the true knowledge of God , that is , of the ...
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... to mean that this observant and clear - headed Scotch lawyer , though he could follow the progress of human know- ledge from a distance only , had convinced himself that theology should not stand aloof from the on- ward 10 LECTURE I.
... to mean that this observant and clear - headed Scotch lawyer , though he could follow the progress of human know- ledge from a distance only , had convinced himself that theology should not stand aloof from the on- ward 10 LECTURE I.
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... follow their history . But even where an etymology is unassailable on phonetic and historical grounds , it can never give us more than the first starting - point of a word . It may teach us how the object to be named was first conceived ...
... follow their history . But even where an etymology is unassailable on phonetic and historical grounds , it can never give us more than the first starting - point of a word . It may teach us how the object to be named was first conceived ...
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... follow Him only . We are tied to God and bound to Him ( religati ) by the bond of piety , and from this has religion itself received its name , and not , as Cicero has interpreted it , from attention ( a rele- gendo ) 1 . ' 6 Before we ...
... follow Him only . We are tied to God and bound to Him ( religati ) by the bond of piety , and from this has religion itself received its name , and not , as Cicero has interpreted it , from attention ( a rele- gendo ) 1 . ' 6 Before we ...
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... follows sometimes the one , sometimes the other derivation , as it suits his purpose ; while among modern theologians it has actually been maintained that religio was descended from religare as well as from relegere , so as to com- bine ...
... follows sometimes the one , sometimes the other derivation , as it suits his purpose ; while among modern theologians it has actually been maintained that religio was descended from religare as well as from relegere , so as to com- bine ...
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