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... appear even in the slender form of an essay . From an accurate survey of all that has hitherto been written upon this subject by the soberest authors of the preceding age , it will appear , that very little knowledge of man has been ...
... appear even in the slender form of an essay . From an accurate survey of all that has hitherto been written upon this subject by the soberest authors of the preceding age , it will appear , that very little knowledge of man has been ...
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... appear to be very remarkably different . Nor is it less incontrovertible , that it is equally impossible to find two minds , as two countenances , which perfectly resemble each other . Considerations like these will be sufficient to ...
... appear to be very remarkably different . Nor is it less incontrovertible , that it is equally impossible to find two minds , as two countenances , which perfectly resemble each other . Considerations like these will be sufficient to ...
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... appear perfectly like the weak , the man in full health like another in the last stage of a consumption , or that the rash and irascible resemble the cold and phlegmatic . It revolts to hear it affirmed , that joy and grief , pleasure ...
... appear perfectly like the weak , the man in full health like another in the last stage of a consumption , or that the rash and irascible resemble the cold and phlegmatic . It revolts to hear it affirmed , that joy and grief , pleasure ...
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... appear exceedingly lovely , or exceedingly hateful ; not a man who does not more or less , the first time he is in company with a stranger , observe , estimate , compare , andjudge of him according to appearances , although he might ...
... appear exceedingly lovely , or exceedingly hateful ; not a man who does not more or less , the first time he is in company with a stranger , observe , estimate , compare , andjudge of him according to appearances , although he might ...
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... appear what he ought determinately to be , he will yet become more vain , and will court the praise of men , not by words and deeds alone , but by assumed looks and counterfeited forms ? Oughtest thou not rather to weaken this already ...
... appear what he ought determinately to be , he will yet become more vain , and will court the praise of men , not by words and deeds alone , but by assumed looks and counterfeited forms ? Oughtest thou not rather to weaken this already ...
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Page 324 - For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
Page 326 - God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. 0 the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God ! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out ! For who hath known the mind of the Lord ? or who hath been his counsellor? or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again ? For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things : to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
Page 324 - And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them: But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold. Who...
Page 325 - Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Page 161 - I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes, and by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
Page 98 - The light of the body is the eye : if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness.
Page 325 - And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also ? Do ye not perceive that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him, 19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly , and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats ? 20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
Page 323 - Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature ? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: and yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 127 - So that now when I open and turn over with reverent joy the leaves of the Gospels, I feel that here is enshrined the highest achievement of Man the Artist, a creation to which nothing can be added, from which nothing can be taken away.
Page 320 - Verily I say unto thee, Inasmuch as thou hast done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, thou hast done it unto me.