Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1892 - 608 pages |
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Page vii
... law , London , and the survivors and survivor of them accepting , and the heirs of the last survivor , and to such other person or persons as I may name , or as may be assumed or appointed by competent authority , a majority Defini ...
... law , London , and the survivors and survivor of them accepting , and the heirs of the last survivor , and to such other person or persons as I may name , or as may be assumed or appointed by competent authority , a majority Defini ...
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... laws , even our morality , bear the impress of the nineteenth century , nay , of all the nineteen centuries which have passed over them since the beginning of our era , it is said , and not without a certain kind of pride , that our ...
... laws , even our morality , bear the impress of the nineteenth century , nay , of all the nineteen centuries which have passed over them since the beginning of our era , it is said , and not without a certain kind of pride , that our ...
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... Law , owed their strength , their life , and their vigorous growth , but that it should take its place as a science among sciences , undismayed by dangers , and trusting in the inevit- able triumph of truth . Whatever other Universities ...
... Law , owed their strength , their life , and their vigorous growth , but that it should take its place as a science among sciences , undismayed by dangers , and trusting in the inevit- able triumph of truth . Whatever other Universities ...
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... laws will not allow it , and because the two words run parallel , and never approach one another , as far as we can follow their history . But even where an etymology is unassailable on phonetic and historical grounds , it can never ...
... laws will not allow it , and because the two words run parallel , and never approach one another , as far as we can follow their history . But even where an etymology is unassailable on phonetic and historical grounds , it can never ...
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... laws would not allow of this derivation , we need not discuss it further . So much for the etymology of religio , which in its first conception can only have meant respect , care , reverence . Historical Definition of Religio . We now ...
... laws would not allow of this derivation , we need not discuss it further . So much for the etymology of religio , which in its first conception can only have meant respect , care , reverence . Historical Definition of Religio . We now ...
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