The Constitution of ManMarsh, Capen, Lyon and Webb, 1841 - 436 Seiten |
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... observation , discussion , and reflection , have tend- ed only to accumulate new evidence in favor of the propo- sitions maintained . I have , however , corrected as far as possible the style of the work , inserted new proofs and ...
... observation , discussion , and reflection , have tend- ed only to accumulate new evidence in favor of the propo- sitions maintained . I have , however , corrected as far as possible the style of the work , inserted new proofs and ...
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... observe pheno- mena , and to trace cause and effect ; and he has constituted the external world to afford scope to these powers . We are entitled , therefore , to say , that it is the Creator himself who has commanded us to observe and ...
... observe pheno- mena , and to trace cause and effect ; and he has constituted the external world to afford scope to these powers . We are entitled , therefore , to say , that it is the Creator himself who has commanded us to observe and ...
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... observe their course , and accommodate his conduct to their influence . This capacity of adaptation is a valuable substitute for the power of regulating them by his will . He cannot arrest the sun in its course , so as to avert the ...
... observe their course , and accommodate his conduct to their influence . This capacity of adaptation is a valuable substitute for the power of regulating them by his will . He cannot arrest the sun in its course , so as to avert the ...
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George Combe. with it . Until his own faculties became the subjects of his observation , and their relations the objects of his reflection , they operated as mere instincts . He adopted savage habits , because his animal propensities ...
George Combe. with it . Until his own faculties became the subjects of his observation , and their relations the objects of his reflection , they operated as mere instincts . He adopted savage habits , because his animal propensities ...
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... observed to occur in the world ; and on such occasions the darkness and inscrutable perplexity of the ways of Providence are generally moralized upon , or a future life is called in as the scene in which these crooked paths are to be ...
... observed to occur in the world ; and on such occasions the darkness and inscrutable perplexity of the ways of Providence are generally moralized upon , or a future life is called in as the scene in which these crooked paths are to be ...
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Seite 365 - Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.
Seite 370 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves : which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another,) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.
Seite 372 - Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, " Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, " Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like...
Seite 44 - The Principles of Physiology, applied to the Preservation of Health, and to the Improvement of Physical and Mental Education.
Seite 368 - A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good ; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil : for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
Seite 308 - I know not that we have any one kind or degree of enjoyment, but by the means of our own actions. And by prudence and care we may, for the most part, pass our days in tolerable ease and quiet ; or, on the contrary, we may, by rashness, ungoverned passion, wilfulness, or even by negligence, make ourselves as miserable as ever we please.
Seite 90 - ... for the first time, you at once derive some gratification from the sight being new ; your attention is awakened, and you desire to know more about it. If it is a piece of workmanship, as an instrument, a machine of any kind, you wish to know how it is made ; how it works ; and what use it is of.
Seite 158 - Never was any man more civil and obliging, and more free from jealousy, dissimulation, and envy, than Melancthon: he was humble, Fig. 4. MELANCTHON. modest, disinterested in the extreme; in a word, he possessed wonderful talents, and most noble dispositions. His greatest enemies have been forced to acknowledge that the annals of antiquity exhibit very few worthies who may be compared with him, whether extent of knowledge in things human and divine, or quickness of comprehension and fertility of genius,...
Seite 90 - If you see another instrument or animal, in some respects like it, but differing in other particulars, you find it pleasing to compare them together, and to note in what they agree, and in what they differ. Now, all this kind of gratification is of a pure and disinterested nature, and has no reference to any of the common purposes of life ; yet it is a pleasure — an enjoyment. You are nothing the richer for it ; you...
Seite 48 - It has been computed by some political arithmetician, that, if every man and woman would work for four hours each day on something useful, that labor would produce sufficient to procure all the necessaries and comforts of life, want and misery would be banished out of the world, and the rest of the twenty-four hours might be leisure and pleasure.