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... follow it brought into immediate contiguity . This supposition transforms the universe into a dead machine . The lives and the souls of men become so indiffer- ent , that the annihilation of a whole human race , or of many such races ...
... follow it brought into immediate contiguity . This supposition transforms the universe into a dead machine . The lives and the souls of men become so indiffer- ent , that the annihilation of a whole human race , or of many such races ...
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... follows , and only perishes by being converted into something more substantial than itself . A series of recurring cycles , however conceivable to the logical understanding , is incon- ceivable to the spirit ; for every later cycle must ...
... follows , and only perishes by being converted into something more substantial than itself . A series of recurring cycles , however conceivable to the logical understanding , is incon- ceivable to the spirit ; for every later cycle must ...
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... follow whatsoever things are lovely , whatsoever things are of good report . But except through such general appeals to natural feeling it would be difficult to prove from the New Testament that cowardice was not only disgraceful but ...
... follow whatsoever things are lovely , whatsoever things are of good report . But except through such general appeals to natural feeling it would be difficult to prove from the New Testament that cowardice was not only disgraceful but ...
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... follow what his heart does not love as well as his reason approve ; and he cannot love what is presented to him as an abstract rule of life , but requires a living person . He needs to see virtue in the concrete , before he can ...
... follow what his heart does not love as well as his reason approve ; and he cannot love what is presented to him as an abstract rule of life , but requires a living person . He needs to see virtue in the concrete , before he can ...
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... follow them . To almost all men this period is a bright spot to which the memory ever after- wards loves to recur ; and even those who can remember no- - ― thing but folly - folly too which they 20 THE EDUCATION OF THE WORLD .
... follow them . To almost all men this period is a bright spot to which the memory ever after- wards loves to recur ; and even those who can remember no- - ― thing but folly - folly too which they 20 THE EDUCATION OF THE WORLD .
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Page 295 - And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true; and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
Page 323 - Bacon, that the words of prophecy are to be interpreted as the words of one ' with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years...
Page 158 - HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 213 - Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it...
Page 201 - And the earth was without form, and void ; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good : and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Page 304 - Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement, but I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Page 306 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 254 - Our province is virtue and religion, life and manners; the science of improving the temper, and making the heart better. This is the field assigned us to cultivate: how much it has lain neglected is indeed astonishing.
Page 350 - Ghost, and taste of the good Word of God, and of the powers of the life to come, and yet have no part in Christ at all.