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... familiar subject - matter , its existence can more easily be ignored or forgotten , and the mystery that is in nature be more easily over- looked . Sometimes one finds a man cheerfully satis- fied with an explanation which is not even a ...
... familiar subject - matter , its existence can more easily be ignored or forgotten , and the mystery that is in nature be more easily over- looked . Sometimes one finds a man cheerfully satis- fied with an explanation which is not even a ...
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... familiar ; but at the same time others , as we know , on account of their striking character or their irregular occurrence , are felt to involve the element of mystery , and gradually come to exert a profound influence upon their ...
... familiar ; but at the same time others , as we know , on account of their striking character or their irregular occurrence , are felt to involve the element of mystery , and gradually come to exert a profound influence upon their ...
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... familiar though it must be to you all . We have found that by three different directions we can make approach to the understanding of the es- sential nature of God - through the study of nature , the study of social life of mankind ...
... familiar though it must be to you all . We have found that by three different directions we can make approach to the understanding of the es- sential nature of God - through the study of nature , the study of social life of mankind ...
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... familiar and practical details that give warmth and colour and interest to life ? I want to persuade you that the contrary is true . Even in the light of what has been said already , it means , does it not , that amidst the wide variety ...
... familiar and practical details that give warmth and colour and interest to life ? I want to persuade you that the contrary is true . Even in the light of what has been said already , it means , does it not , that amidst the wide variety ...
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... familiar enough with the view that the mutual relations of sovereign states are not under obligation to the laws of morality ; what is this but to conceive of God as national in His interests , and to take one's stand with Deborah ...
... familiar enough with the view that the mutual relations of sovereign states are not under obligation to the laws of morality ; what is this but to conceive of God as national in His interests , and to take one's stand with Deborah ...
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Page 97 - IF I have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness; If I have moved among my race And shown no glorious morning face; If beams from happy human eyes Have moved me not; if morning skies, Books, and my food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart in vain: Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake...
Page 22 - So the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God; and yet they are not three Gods but one God...
Page 92 - Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin — ; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
Page 66 - I report, as a man may of God's work — all's love, yet all's law. Now I lay down the judgeship he lent me. Each faculty tasked To perceive him, has gained an abyss, where a dewdrop was asked.
Page 34 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye build the tombs of the prophets and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, and say, 'If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Page 5 - Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page 121 - Drop yon. blue bosom-veil of sky, and show me The breasts o' her tenderness: Never did any milk of hers once bless My thirsting mouth. Nigh and nigh draws the chase, With unperturbed pace, Deliberate speed majestic instancy And past those Noise'd Feet A voice comes yet more fleet — "Lo! naught contents thee, who content'st not Me.
Page 34 - For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Page 40 - Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
Page 68 - Though dark my path and sad my lot, Let me be still, and murmur not, Or breathe the prayer divinely taught, "Thy will be done.