The History of Magic, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... understanding and the mind in self - consciousness again shape into a unity ; from which , on the other hand , the subjective impulse and conception in the will come forth again objective in revelation . The operations of the under ...
... understanding and the mind in self - consciousness again shape into a unity ; from which , on the other hand , the subjective impulse and conception in the will come forth again objective in revelation . The operations of the under ...
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... understanding of the man engaged in the affairs of the world , speaks wisdom , drawing from the past knowledge at once for the present and the future . In the language of Homer all the pe- culiarities of the age of man and the innocence ...
... understanding of the man engaged in the affairs of the world , speaks wisdom , drawing from the past knowledge at once for the present and the future . In the language of Homer all the pe- culiarities of the age of man and the innocence ...
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... understanding of it ; for con- viction , says Bacon , comes not through argument , but through experiment . The laborious , inquiring , severe natural philosophy of our time , demonstrates , however , those unchangeable laws of the ...
... understanding of it ; for con- viction , says Bacon , comes not through argument , but through experiment . The laborious , inquiring , severe natural philosophy of our time , demonstrates , however , those unchangeable laws of the ...
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... understanding of nature , and the true inspiration of the divine , were continually declining . For nature herself is poetic , higher and deeper than all which the imagination of men can reach : she is in her wonderful phenomena the ...
... understanding of nature , and the true inspiration of the divine , were continually declining . For nature herself is poetic , higher and deeper than all which the imagination of men can reach : she is in her wonderful phenomena the ...
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... understanding of nature is therefore the voice of God , the highest ideal , which the elements of nature and their powers symbolise . It makes the operations of the mineral and the vegetable kingdom perceptible through free and ...
... understanding of nature is therefore the voice of God , the highest ideal , which the elements of nature and their powers symbolise . It makes the operations of the mineral and the vegetable kingdom perceptible through free and ...
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Page 130 - Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought ? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side ? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.