Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1892 - 608 pages |
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Page viii
... morals , being , I say , convinced that this knowledge , when really felt and acted on , is the means of man's highest wellbeing , and the security of his upward progress , I have resolved , from the ' residue ' of my estate as ...
... morals , being , I say , convinced that this knowledge , when really felt and acted on , is the means of man's highest wellbeing , and the security of his upward progress , I have resolved , from the ' residue ' of my estate as ...
Page ix
... Morals , and of all Obligations and Duties thence arising . ' The Senatus Academicus in each of the four Universities , or the bodies substituted to them re- spectively , shall be the patrons of the several lectureships , and the ...
... Morals , and of all Obligations and Duties thence arising . ' The Senatus Academicus in each of the four Universities , or the bodies substituted to them re- spectively , shall be the patrons of the several lectureships , and the ...
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... morals , -being , I say , convinced that this knowledge , when really felt and acted on , is the means of man's highest well - being , and the security of his upward progress , I have re- solved ... to institute and found ...
... morals , -being , I say , convinced that this knowledge , when really felt and acted on , is the means of man's highest well - being , and the security of his upward progress , I have re- solved ... to institute and found ...
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... Morals , and of all Obligations and Duties hence arising . ' If Lord Gifford had said no more than this in his Will , we might have thought that he had been in- fluenced by the high and noble , yet not very un- common , motives of a man ...
... Morals , and of all Obligations and Duties hence arising . ' If Lord Gifford had said no more than this in his Will , we might have thought that he had been in- fluenced by the high and noble , yet not very un- common , motives of a man ...
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... 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 religion has ...
... 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 religion has ...
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