Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1898 - 608 pages |
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Page xi
... things in this world can ever be identical . They are as inseparable as the bark and the stem of a living tree , as the concave and the convex , as the angle and the two lines which enclose it . They are held together by that intimate ...
... things in this world can ever be identical . They are as inseparable as the bark and the stem of a living tree , as the concave and the convex , as the angle and the two lines which enclose it . They are held together by that intimate ...
Page xvi
... thing , it is not always the same thing , but even if it is , should we not rather rejoice and try with all our might to add to what may be called the heavenly dowry of the human race , the com- mon stock of truth which , as we are told ...
... thing , it is not always the same thing , but even if it is , should we not rather rejoice and try with all our might to add to what may be called the heavenly dowry of the human race , the com- mon stock of truth which , as we are told ...
Page xxviii
... things consist , and of man's real relationship to Him Whom truly to know is life everlasting . If the residue of my estate , in the sense before defined , should turn out in- sufficient to pay the whole sums above provided for the four ...
... things consist , and of man's real relationship to Him Whom truly to know is life everlasting . If the residue of my estate , in the sense before defined , should turn out in- sufficient to pay the whole sums above provided for the four ...
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... thing he did , I am told , when he returned from the Parliament House on Saturdays , was to lock the door of his library , and devote himself to his own favourite authors , never looking at a professional book or paper till it was ...
... thing he did , I am told , when he returned from the Parliament House on Saturdays , was to lock the door of his library , and devote himself to his own favourite authors , never looking at a professional book or paper till it was ...
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... thing which that excellent man , after making ample provi- sion for his family , had evidently had most at heart , was to help the world to a clearer insight into the great problems of life than he himself in his busy career had been ...
... thing which that excellent man , after making ample provi- sion for his family , had evidently had most at heart , was to help the world to a clearer insight into the great problems of life than he himself in his busy career had been ...
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