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... existence ; but none the less is the darkness so great that even the imagination refuses to move from its place . The sur- rounding objects are there if the light would but dawn so as to enable us to see them . It is very necessary to ...
... existence ; but none the less is the darkness so great that even the imagination refuses to move from its place . The sur- rounding objects are there if the light would but dawn so as to enable us to see them . It is very necessary to ...
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... existence . For our present purpose it matters little whether we attribute this to a gradual progress , or ( what is surely possible ) to a sudden but natural leap in evolution , or to a special act of creation adapting itself to ...
... existence . For our present purpose it matters little whether we attribute this to a gradual progress , or ( what is surely possible ) to a sudden but natural leap in evolution , or to a special act of creation adapting itself to ...
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... existence and the internal force that was reso- lutely bent on continuing to be , before he called the two by the names right and wrong . But as the mere fact that the contrast was there and always had been there , at the very root of ...
... existence and the internal force that was reso- lutely bent on continuing to be , before he called the two by the names right and wrong . But as the mere fact that the contrast was there and always had been there , at the very root of ...
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... existence . He was the inheritor of conditions and tendencies which wrought in him such thoughts as these : You shall die before I will ; ' I will use you to please myself ; ' I am born to pursue my own happiness ; ' ' the whole world ...
... existence . He was the inheritor of conditions and tendencies which wrought in him such thoughts as these : You shall die before I will ; ' I will use you to please myself ; ' I am born to pursue my own happiness ; ' ' the whole world ...
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... existence , he would have the same impression , in a faint and dubious form , of other men as possessing the same right . It seems probable that to this rudimentary perception of mutual likeness may be traced all that part of our social ...
... existence , he would have the same impression , in a faint and dubious form , of other men as possessing the same right . It seems probable that to this rudimentary perception of mutual likeness may be traced all that part of our social ...
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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.