Natural ReligionLongmans, Green, and Company, 1889 - 608 pages |
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... called sceptics or agnostics or freethinkers , provided only that the ' patrons ' will use diligence to secure that they be able reverent men , true thinkers , sincere lovers of and earnest Subject to inquirers after truth . Fifth , I ...
... called sceptics or agnostics or freethinkers , provided only that the ' patrons ' will use diligence to secure that they be able reverent men , true thinkers , sincere lovers of and earnest Subject to inquirers after truth . Fifth , I ...
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... called this peculiar phase or affection of language a kind of disease , though , like many dis- eases , it ought really to be recognised as a recuperative crisis in the youthful constitution of the human mind . In some few cases only ...
... called this peculiar phase or affection of language a kind of disease , though , like many dis- eases , it ought really to be recognised as a recuperative crisis in the youthful constitution of the human mind . In some few cases only ...
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... called re- ligion . Is Buddhism a Religion ? Now it is quite true , we may so define religion that the name could not be applied to Buddhism ; but the question is , who has the right so to narrow the defini- tion of the word ' religion ...
... called re- ligion . Is Buddhism a Religion ? Now it is quite true , we may so define religion that the name could not be applied to Buddhism ; but the question is , who has the right so to narrow the defini- tion of the word ' religion ...
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... called Devas , and the Romans dii . As the biography of a man may be called his best definition , what I call biographies of words are perhaps the most useful de- finitions which it is in our power to give . Dogmatic Definition . Lastly ...
... called Devas , and the Romans dii . As the biography of a man may be called his best definition , what I call biographies of words are perhaps the most useful de- finitions which it is in our power to give . Dogmatic Definition . Lastly ...
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... called religiosi , from relegere , as neat people ( elegantes ) were so called from elegere 2 , to pick out ; likewise diligent people , diligentes , from diligere , to choose , to value , and intelligent people from intel- 1 Lactantius ...
... called religiosi , from relegere , as neat people ( elegantes ) were so called from elegere 2 , to pick out ; likewise diligent people , diligentes , from diligere , to choose , to value , and intelligent people from intel- 1 Lactantius ...
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Page 111 - All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage.
Page 145 - to express the Infinite ; not the Infinite as the result of a long process of abstract reasoning, but the visible Infinite, visible by the naked eye, the endless expanse beyond the earth, beyond the clouds, beyond the sky. That was called A-diti, the un-bound, the unbounded ; one might almost say, but for fear of misunderstandings,
Page 2 - of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that, if reveal'd. They would by other men be met With blank indifference, or with blame reprov'd : I knew they lived and mov'd Trick'd in disguises, alien to the rest Of men, and alien to themselves.
Page 609 - 6d, . . , The earliest philosophical and religious poem of India, It has been paraphrased in Arnold's 'Song Celestial! VOL. X. The Dhammapada, Translated from Pali by F. MAX MULLER; and The Sutta-Nipata, Translated from Pali by V. FAUSBOLL ; being Canonical Books of the Buddhists. 8vo., cloth,
Page 531 - Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country ; for I am the Lord your God V