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... questions respecting the origin of man , it is , I firmly believe , by no means so necessary in our present ... question comes to this , How did the idea or the fact of rightness enter into the world ? There can , I think , be ...
... questions respecting the origin of man , it is , I firmly believe , by no means so necessary in our present ... question comes to this , How did the idea or the fact of rightness enter into the world ? There can , I think , be ...
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... question is not How did I come by my conscience ? but How did those remote ancestors of mine , the first man and after him the first society of men , come by theirs ? The history of the process by which , under the influence of social ...
... question is not How did I come by my conscience ? but How did those remote ancestors of mine , the first man and after him the first society of men , come by theirs ? The history of the process by which , under the influence of social ...
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... question : Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth ? declare if thou hast understanding . ' Primitive man had enough of philosophy to ask this question , and enough of science to attempt to answer it out of such ...
... question : Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth ? declare if thou hast understanding . ' Primitive man had enough of philosophy to ask this question , and enough of science to attempt to answer it out of such ...
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... question as to the form of government was an open one , and was regarded as of secondary importance ; the great question with them was universal liberty , complete enfranchisement , and just and equal laws . To be sure this was a ...
... question as to the form of government was an open one , and was regarded as of secondary importance ; the great question with them was universal liberty , complete enfranchisement , and just and equal laws . To be sure this was a ...
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... question , but that for present purposes it is more con- venient to accept his decision , and to admit that weapons which have had their range , their mobility , their intelligence ( if the expression may be allowed for the moment ) ...
... question , but that for present purposes it is more con- venient to accept his decision , and to admit that weapons which have had their range , their mobility , their intelligence ( if the expression may be allowed for the moment ) ...
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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.