Natural ReligionLongmans, Green, and Company, 1889 - 608 pages |
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Page 37
... dialects , from popular parlance to technical theology , the case becomes different . We then enter on purely dogmatic or self - willed definitions , the natural growth of language seems arrested , and all we can do is to register the ...
... dialects , from popular parlance to technical theology , the case becomes different . We then enter on purely dogmatic or self - willed definitions , the natural growth of language seems arrested , and all we can do is to register the ...
Page 83
... And I feel therefore all the more bound to . state that there are some dialects spoken in Tierra del Fuego , such as the Alacalu or Ona , which Signor Bovè himself declares to be harsh G 2 EXAMINATION OF DEFINITIONS . 83.
... And I feel therefore all the more bound to . state that there are some dialects spoken in Tierra del Fuego , such as the Alacalu or Ona , which Signor Bovè himself declares to be harsh G 2 EXAMINATION OF DEFINITIONS . 83.
Page 203
... dialects , and traces each word back from century to century , until from the English , for instance , now spoken in ... dialect of the great Teutonic stem of language , that Teutonic again is but a dialect of the great Aryan family of ...
... dialects , and traces each word back from century to century , until from the English , for instance , now spoken in ... dialect of the great Teutonic stem of language , that Teutonic again is but a dialect of the great Aryan family of ...
Page 209
... dialects , spoken in the United States . Being , as we are told , a thorough master of Tinné , the Bishop states that its significant radicals are the five primitive vowels , A , E , I , O , U. Of these A expresses matter , E existence ...
... dialects , spoken in the United States . Being , as we are told , a thorough master of Tinné , the Bishop states that its significant radicals are the five primitive vowels , A , E , I , O , U. Of these A expresses matter , E existence ...
Page 217
... dialects spoken by savage tribes , gaining their confidence , and gathering at last from their lips some records of their popular traditions , their ceremonial customs , some prayers , it may be , and some confession of their ancient ...
... dialects spoken by savage tribes , gaining their confidence , and gathering at last from their lips some records of their popular traditions , their ceremonial customs , some prayers , it may be , and some confession of their ancient ...
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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