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... experience . It needed but the touch of self - con- sciousness to make the instinctive feeling pass by a bound into ... experiences . All that seems certain is , that there was an era in the history of man when there was added to his ...
... experience . It needed but the touch of self - con- sciousness to make the instinctive feeling pass by a bound into ... experiences . All that seems certain is , that there was an era in the history of man when there was added to his ...
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... experience , so as to be able to say , this is a flower , and this a stone , and this a man . Now his idea of man must of necessity have been framed upon his knowledge of him- self . Whatever qualities or properties he recognised as ...
... experience , so as to be able to say , this is a flower , and this a stone , and this a man . Now his idea of man must of necessity have been framed upon his knowledge of him- self . Whatever qualities or properties he recognised as ...
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... experience shows what is possible and best for human life and happiness . And all the while the conscience plays its part in this upward progress by transferring to any recognised reasonable rightness ( alas ! also to a thousand wrongs ...
... experience shows what is possible and best for human life and happiness . And all the while the conscience plays its part in this upward progress by transferring to any recognised reasonable rightness ( alas ! also to a thousand wrongs ...
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... experience the greatest possible delight in doing our duty . For what is this after all but the satisfaction of finding our life when we were willing to lose it ? ( 6. ) The Ideal or Moral Stage . The next step in the history of ...
... experience the greatest possible delight in doing our duty . For what is this after all but the satisfaction of finding our life when we were willing to lose it ? ( 6. ) The Ideal or Moral Stage . The next step in the history of ...
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... experience . Now we have seen that the first man was dominated by the consciousness of a primitive rightness due to himself . We have seen also that , compelled by the instincts of forming a social life , he extended the same rightness ...
... experience . Now we have seen that the first man was dominated by the consciousness of a primitive rightness due to himself . We have seen also that , compelled by the instincts of forming a social life , he extended the same rightness ...
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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.