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... certainly produce them , yet hitherto but little accurate information has been de- rived from the most arduous and laborious researches of the first abstract philosophers of the age . The same thing has happened to Physi- ognomy as to ...
... certainly produce them , yet hitherto but little accurate information has been de- rived from the most arduous and laborious researches of the first abstract philosophers of the age . The same thing has happened to Physi- ognomy as to ...
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... certainly as that every man , who is not de- formed , is born with two eyes ; that all men , in their intercourse with each other , form physi- ognomonical decisions , according as their judg- ment is more or less clear ; that it is ...
... certainly as that every man , who is not de- formed , is born with two eyes ; that all men , in their intercourse with each other , form physi- ognomonical decisions , according as their judg- ment is more or less clear ; that it is ...
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... certainly be able to make a progress . There is no study , however difficult , which may not be attained by perseverance and resolution . We have men constantly before us . In the very smallest towns there is a continual influx and ...
... certainly be able to make a progress . There is no study , however difficult , which may not be attained by perseverance and resolution . We have men constantly before us . In the very smallest towns there is a continual influx and ...
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... certainly denotes a deceitful , crafty person , not easily deceived , mistrustful , and not always to be trusted ; one who willingly avoids labour when he can , in- dulging in idleness , play , usury , and pilfering . Small and deep ...
... certainly denotes a deceitful , crafty person , not easily deceived , mistrustful , and not always to be trusted ; one who willingly avoids labour when he can , in- dulging in idleness , play , usury , and pilfering . Small and deep ...
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... certainly betoken consideration , discretion , and firmness . A mild overhanging upper lip generally sig- nifies goodness . There are innumerable good persons also with projecting under lips ; but the goodness of the latter is rather ...
... certainly betoken consideration , discretion , and firmness . A mild overhanging upper lip generally sig- nifies goodness . There are innumerable good persons also with projecting under lips ; but the goodness of the latter is rather ...
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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.