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... kind tend to persist when the early stages of culture out of which they sprang are left behind . It was long before the Hebrews ceased to think of thunder as the voice of God , or of the lightning as His arrow ; and we know how the ...
... kind tend to persist when the early stages of culture out of which they sprang are left behind . It was long before the Hebrews ceased to think of thunder as the voice of God , or of the lightning as His arrow ; and we know how the ...
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... kind of thing was and is superstition — inevitable , perhaps , but none the less a mistake ? That to find God in the arresting or ab- normal aspects of nature is to see him where he is not ? Surely our criticism will be of another sort ...
... kind of thing was and is superstition — inevitable , perhaps , but none the less a mistake ? That to find God in the arresting or ab- normal aspects of nature is to see him where he is not ? Surely our criticism will be of another sort ...
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... to be true enough and not specially controversial . But someone paraphrases it , " Honesty pays ; that means that goodness is simply the kind of conduct which is dedicated by prudence ; " and at once 26 RELIGION AND NATURAL LAW.
... to be true enough and not specially controversial . But someone paraphrases it , " Honesty pays ; that means that goodness is simply the kind of conduct which is dedicated by prudence ; " and at once 26 RELIGION AND NATURAL LAW.
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... kind of man who is quite willing to admit that he did wrong yesterday if only he may go on doing the same to- morrow . It is rare nowadays for any weighty pro- nouncement to be made in condemnation of some modern theory without being ...
... kind of man who is quite willing to admit that he did wrong yesterday if only he may go on doing the same to- morrow . It is rare nowadays for any weighty pro- nouncement to be made in condemnation of some modern theory without being ...
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... kind is obvious at once ; we have no reason to suppose that our friends ' misfortunes are providentially ordained , in the customary use of those words , unless we hold that everything that happens in the world does so in accordance ...
... kind is obvious at once ; we have no reason to suppose that our friends ' misfortunes are providentially ordained , in the customary use of those words , unless we hold that everything that happens in the world does so in accordance ...
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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.