Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1892 - 608 pages |
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Page xvi
... never looking at a professional book or paper till it was necessary to begin work on Monday . He had a sepa- rate set of books altogether in his bedroom , amongst which he spent every moment of his spare time during session , and ...
... never looking at a professional book or paper till it was necessary to begin work on Monday . He had a sepa- rate set of books altogether in his bedroom , amongst which he spent every moment of his spare time during session , and ...
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... never looking at a professional book or paper till it was necessary to begin work on Monday . He had a sepa- rate set of books altogether in his bedroom , amongst which he spent every moment of his spare time during session , and ...
... never looking at a professional book or paper till it was necessary to begin work on Monday . He had a sepa- rate set of books altogether in his bedroom , amongst which he spent every moment of his spare time during session , and ...
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... never seems to have given offence , and those who knew him , little suspected this hard - working lawyer of having his whole soul engrossed by Spinoza's Ethics or the metaphysics of religion . And yet when his Will was opened , the one ...
... never seems to have given offence , and those who knew him , little suspected this hard - working lawyer of having his whole soul engrossed by Spinoza's Ethics or the metaphysics of religion . And yet when his Will was opened , the one ...
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... never be eliminated in any religion , certainly not in our own , unless we claim infallibility not only for the founder of our religion and his disciples , but for their disciples also , and for a whole succession of the suc- cessors ...
... never be eliminated in any religion , certainly not in our own , unless we claim infallibility not only for the founder of our religion and his disciples , but for their disciples also , and for a whole succession of the suc- cessors ...
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... listen to some of my criticisms , and at his request I then translated for him some of the most important Upanishads , which form part of the ancient Vedic literature . I have never been able to recover LORD GIFFORD'S BEQUEST . 17.
... listen to some of my criticisms , and at his request I then translated for him some of the most important Upanishads , which form part of the ancient Vedic literature . I have never been able to recover LORD GIFFORD'S BEQUEST . 17.
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