Fraser's Magazine, Volume 88Longmans, Green, and Company, 1873 |
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... nature in this century , and the wide diffusion of physical knowledge among all classes of society , the problem of creation has lately risen to the surface again . New facts challenge new thoughts , and the mass of new facts , throwing ...
... nature in this century , and the wide diffusion of physical knowledge among all classes of society , the problem of creation has lately risen to the surface again . New facts challenge new thoughts , and the mass of new facts , throwing ...
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... nature of these cells . The same in the Science of Lan- guage . The most important result which has been obtained by a truly scientific study of languages is this , that , after accounting for all that is purely formal as the result of ...
... nature of these cells . The same in the Science of Lan- guage . The most important result which has been obtained by a truly scientific study of languages is this , that , after accounting for all that is purely formal as the result of ...
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... nature , does not admit of that exact treatment to which he is accustomed ; but the philosopher must accept facts as they are , and his interests are with the Chaos as well as with the Kosmos . As the medical man , who has to study the ...
... nature , does not admit of that exact treatment to which he is accustomed ; but the philosopher must accept facts as they are , and his interests are with the Chaos as well as with the Kosmos . As the medical man , who has to study the ...
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... nature an orange without peel , nor peel without an orange ; nor do we ever find in nature thought without words , or words without thought . It is curious , however , to ob- serve how determinately this con- clusion has been resisted ...
... nature an orange without peel , nor peel without an orange ; nor do we ever find in nature thought without words , or words without thought . It is curious , however , to ob- serve how determinately this con- clusion has been resisted ...
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... nature of thought , for their expression for thinking is ' speaking in the stomach . ' But modern philosophers imagine they are wiser than these primitive savages ; and in order to put an end . to all controversy , they have had ...
... nature of thought , for their expression for thinking is ' speaking in the stomach . ' But modern philosophers imagine they are wiser than these primitive savages ; and in order to put an end . to all controversy , they have had ...
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Page 231 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Page 629 - ... having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed in himself: That in the dispensation of the fulness of times, he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth, even in him...
Page 650 - Her shirt was o' the grass-green silk, Her mantle o' the velvet fyne ; At ilka tett of her horse's mane, Hung fifty siller bells and nine. True Thomas, he pull'd aff his cap, And louted low down to his knee, " All hail, thou mighty queen of heaven ! For thy peer on earth I never did see.
Page 491 - Though the earth and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his.
Page 673 - There methinks would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind, In the steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind.
Page 85 - The object of this essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties or the moral coercion of public opinion.
Page 491 - The labour of his body and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever, then, he removes out of the state that nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with it, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.
Page 525 - This doctrine, my friends, is reason and wisdom; but after all, do not depend too much upon your own industry, and frugality...
Page 667 - I was in a dull state of nerves, such as everybody is occasionally liable to; unsusceptible to enjoyment or pleasurable excitement; one of those moods when what is pleasure at other times, becomes insipid or indifferent; the state, I should think, in which converts to Methodism usually are, when smitten by their first "conviction of sin.
Page 93 - We stand on a mountain pass in the midst of whirling snow and blinding mist, through which we get glimpses now and then of paths which may be deceptive. If we stand still we shall be frozen to death. If we take the wrong road we shall be dashed to pieces. We do not certainly know whether there is any right one. What must we do ? 'Be strong and of a good courage.