Missions the Chief End of the Christian Church: Also, the Qualifications, Duties, and Trials, of an Indian Missionary: Being the Substance of Services Held on the 7th March, in St. Andrew's Church, Edinburgh, at the Ordination of the Rev. Thomas Smith |
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Page 46 - in every object there is inexhaustible meaning ; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.' To Newton and to Newton's Dog Diamond, what a different pair of Universes ; while the painting on the optical retina of both was, most likely, the same ! Let the Reader here, in this sick-room of Louis, endeavour to look with the mind too.
Page 157 - ... set at nought all his counsel, and would none of his reproof...