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... course , supposes that these thoughts ' amounted to anything more than vague impressions in the minds of the first men , till they grew into positive convictions under the fostering power of progressive and multiplied experiences . All ...
... course , supposes that these thoughts ' amounted to anything more than vague impressions in the minds of the first men , till they grew into positive convictions under the fostering power of progressive and multiplied experiences . All ...
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... course yield to superior force , but I cannot possibly thereby acquire the sense of duty , which may be defined as the pleasure resulting from intelligent acquiescence in self - sacrifice that makes self - sacri- fice possible . But ...
... course yield to superior force , but I cannot possibly thereby acquire the sense of duty , which may be defined as the pleasure resulting from intelligent acquiescence in self - sacrifice that makes self - sacri- fice possible . But ...
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... course , is that religion can and does become defi- nitely moral when the human mind rises to a belief in one Almighty God with whose will righteousness is of necessity identified . How the Hebrew branch of the Semitic family came by ...
... course , is that religion can and does become defi- nitely moral when the human mind rises to a belief in one Almighty God with whose will righteousness is of necessity identified . How the Hebrew branch of the Semitic family came by ...
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... course be limbered up by running the gun back to its limber , which would stand in the proper position to receive it . We should have abolished the sweep round of the team with a limber behind it , and there would be no reason for ...
... course be limbered up by running the gun back to its limber , which would stand in the proper position to receive it . We should have abolished the sweep round of the team with a limber behind it , and there would be no reason for ...
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... course a matter of common sensibility , not of analysis . That it admits of great varieties is shown by imaginary resemblances found in melodies where such coincidence as exists is confined to one of the two factors , and the two ...
... course a matter of common sensibility , not of analysis . That it admits of great varieties is shown by imaginary resemblances found in melodies where such coincidence as exists is confined to one of the two factors , and the two ...
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Page 183 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 167 - Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one? You have the letters Cadmus gave; Think ye he meant them for a slave...
Page 132 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
Page 12 - Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the Sons of God shouted for joy?
Page 451 - For why ? — because the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can.
Page 537 - Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth ; And mine age is as nothing before thee : Verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Surely every man walketh in a vain shew : Surely they are disquieted in vain : He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. And now, Lord, what wait I for ? My hope is in thee.
Page 131 - Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things : for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you : and the land is defiled : therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Page 105 - Euclid's, and show by construction that its truth was known to us ; to demonstrate, for example, that the angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal...
Page 136 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth : I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Page 807 - Would want some other father ; — much design Is seen in all their motions, all their makes ; Design implies intelligence, and art ; That can't be from themselves — or man ; that art Man scarce can comprehend, could man bestow ? And nothing greater yet allow'd than man.