Natural ReligionLongmans, Green, and Company, 1889 - 608 pages |
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... follow the first ten purposes ) . And I de- clare the preceding ten purposes of this trust to be preferable , and I ... follows : -I having been for many years deeply and firmly convinced that the true knowledge of God , that is , of the ...
... follow the first ten purposes ) . And I de- clare the preceding ten purposes of this trust to be preferable , and I ... follows : -I having been for many years deeply and firmly convinced that the true knowledge of God , that is , of the ...
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... to mean that this observant and clear - headed Scotch lawyer , though he could follow the progress of human know- ledge from a distance only , had convinced himself that theology should not stand aloof from the on- ward 10 LECTURE I.
... to mean that this observant and clear - headed Scotch lawyer , though he could follow the progress of human know- ledge from a distance only , had convinced himself that theology should not stand aloof from the on- ward 10 LECTURE I.
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... follow their history . But even where an etymology is unassailable on phonetic and historical grounds , it can never give us more than the first starting - point of a word . It may teach us how the object to be named was first conceived ...
... follow their history . But even where an etymology is unassailable on phonetic and historical grounds , it can never give us more than the first starting - point of a word . It may teach us how the object to be named was first conceived ...
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... follow Him only . We are tied to God and bound to Him ( religati ) by the bond of piety , and from this has religion itself received its name , and not , as Cicero has interpreted it , from attention ( a rele- gendo ) 1 . ' Before we ...
... follow Him only . We are tied to God and bound to Him ( religati ) by the bond of piety , and from this has religion itself received its name , and not , as Cicero has interpreted it , from attention ( a rele- gendo ) 1 . ' Before we ...
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... follows sometimes the one , sometimes the other derivation , as it suits his purpose ; while among modern theologians it has actually been maintained that religio was descended from religare as well as from relegere , so as to com- bine ...
... follows sometimes the one , sometimes the other derivation , as it suits his purpose ; while among modern theologians it has actually been maintained that religio was descended from religare as well as from relegere , so as to com- bine ...
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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