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... truth . Yet the father of Inductive Science objected to the doctrine of Final Causes , because it seemed to him to have been misapplied and perverted so as to have become an obstacle to the successful prosecution of physical inquiry ...
... truth . Yet the father of Inductive Science objected to the doctrine of Final Causes , because it seemed to him to have been misapplied and perverted so as to have become an obstacle to the successful prosecution of physical inquiry ...
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... truths of theology - is evinced by two consi- derations which should set the question at rest : -The first is his strong ... truth , and in a meta- physical view extremely worthy of attention : " but insists that " when they invade and ...
... truths of theology - is evinced by two consi- derations which should set the question at rest : -The first is his strong ... truth , and in a meta- physical view extremely worthy of attention : " but insists that " when they invade and ...
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... truths of theology . 12 of bowells ConfThe study of Final Causes may be regarded in two distinct aspects , or as subservient to two different ends ; it may be used as a guide or directory in the investigation of physical science : br as ...
... truths of theology . 12 of bowells ConfThe study of Final Causes may be regarded in two distinct aspects , or as subservient to two different ends ; it may be used as a guide or directory in the investigation of physical science : br as ...
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... truth , held by his opponents , that God made all things for his own glory : -a truth which he supposed to mean that God , like a proud man , had no other end than the gratification of his own vanity in receiving the praises of his ...
... truth , held by his opponents , that God made all things for his own glory : -a truth which he supposed to mean that God , like a proud man , had no other end than the gratification of his own vanity in receiving the praises of his ...
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... truth before my respect to any man , how eminent soever , -that opposes it ; and to consider more the glory of the great Author of Nature , than the reputation of any one of her interpre- -ters . " In this admirable dissertation , which ...
... truth before my respect to any man , how eminent soever , -that opposes it ; and to consider more the glory of the great Author of Nature , than the reputation of any one of her interpre- -ters . " In this admirable dissertation , which ...
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Page 27 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness : and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness ; and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; the valleys also are covered over with corn : they shout for joy, they also sing.
Page 21 - GOD from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass : yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.
Page 130 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly; if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch ' With his surcease success; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come.
Page 31 - For every kind of beasts and of birds and of serpents and of things in the sea is tamed, and hath been tamed, of mankind; but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Page 41 - God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah. 6 They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
Page vi - HUNT.— RESEARCHES ON LIGHT : An Examination of all the Phenomena connected with the Chemical and Molecular Changes produced by the Influence of the Solar Rays : embracing all the known Photographic Processes, and new Discoveries in the Art By ROBERT HUNT, Keeper of Mining Records, Museum of Practical Geology.
Page 3 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Page 313 - I leave a mourning ring to my honoured and dear friends, and disinterested fellow labourers, the Rev. Messrs. John and Charles Wesley, in token of my indissoluble union with them, in heart and Christian affection, notwithstanding our difference in judgment about some particular points of doctrine."!
Page 179 - As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place...
Page 119 - And while the moralist, who is holding forth on the cover (an accurate portrait of your humble servant), professes to wear neither gown nor bands, but only the very same long-eared livery in which his congregation is arrayed : yet, look you, one is bound to speak the truth as far as one knows it, whether one mounts a cap and bells or a shovelhat ; and a deal of disagreeable matter must come out in the course of such an undertaking.