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... never be proved ; in other words , that a consistent determinist can never be a convinced determinist . For , on the assumption of the truth of his own theory , any proof that he may give of that theory is simply necessitated by the ...
... never be proved ; in other words , that a consistent determinist can never be a convinced determinist . For , on the assumption of the truth of his own theory , any proof that he may give of that theory is simply necessitated by the ...
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... never told me at all . And not only do we recognise much more clearly nowadays than formerly these relations of cause and effect , or , if you prefer it , of inevitable sequence , but we have learned fur- ther that the introduction of ...
... never told me at all . And not only do we recognise much more clearly nowadays than formerly these relations of cause and effect , or , if you prefer it , of inevitable sequence , but we have learned fur- ther that the introduction of ...
Page 62
... never of the same mind for ten minutes together ; or , may be , a man with- out the power of looking ahead , who is continually trying , by a succession of makeshifts and expedients , to correct mistakes that might easily have been ...
... never of the same mind for ten minutes together ; or , may be , a man with- out the power of looking ahead , who is continually trying , by a succession of makeshifts and expedients , to correct mistakes that might easily have been ...
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... never trouble to put into words what is involved , yet it may remind us of this — that the Football Association is all the time by its rules controlling what takes place in a game , in spite of all that we may say about the individual ...
... never trouble to put into words what is involved , yet it may remind us of this — that the Football Association is all the time by its rules controlling what takes place in a game , in spite of all that we may say about the individual ...
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... never any necessary connexion of fact be- tween stealing a horse and being hanged ; indeed , if there had been , the judge would not have been needed to deal with the matter at all ; and the association of the two is just as arbitrary ...
... never any necessary connexion of fact be- tween stealing a horse and being hanged ; indeed , if there had been , the judge would not have been needed to deal with the matter at all ; and the association of the two is just as arbitrary ...
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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.