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... knowledge is so much more visible than the change in the other ingredients of human progress , that we are apt to fancy that knowledge grows and know- ledge only . I shall not stop to examine whether it be true ( as is sometimes ...
... knowledge is so much more visible than the change in the other ingredients of human progress , that we are apt to fancy that knowledge grows and know- ledge only . I shall not stop to examine whether it be true ( as is sometimes ...
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... knowledge is beyond his reach . He learns to know himself and other men , and to distinguish in some measure his own peculiarities from the leading features of humanity which he shares with all men . He learns to know both the worth and ...
... knowledge is beyond his reach . He learns to know himself and other men , and to distinguish in some measure his own peculiarities from the leading features of humanity which he shares with all men . He learns to know both the worth and ...
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... knowledge . The discussions on table - turning a few years ago , illustrated this want of intellects able to govern themselves . The whole analogy of physical science was not enough to induce that suspension of judgment which was ...
... knowledge . The discussions on table - turning a few years ago , illustrated this want of intellects able to govern themselves . The whole analogy of physical science was not enough to induce that suspension of judgment which was ...
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... knowledge that those arguments are so strong that it would be difficult to imagine a higher authority for any ceremonial institution . And among those arguments one of the foremost is the sympathy which the institution fosters between ...
... knowledge that those arguments are so strong that it would be difficult to imagine a higher authority for any ceremonial institution . And among those arguments one of the foremost is the sympathy which the institution fosters between ...
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... knowledge of any and every kind — for every increase in our accumulations of knowledge throws fresh light 42 THE EDUCATION OF THE WORLD .
... knowledge of any and every kind — for every increase in our accumulations of knowledge throws fresh light 42 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.