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Page vii
... [ Religion ] is a mountain air ; it is the embalmer of the world . It is myrrh , and storax , and chlorine , and rose- mary . It makes the sky and the hills sublime ; and the silent song of the stars is it . Always the seer is a sayer ...
... [ Religion ] is a mountain air ; it is the embalmer of the world . It is myrrh , and storax , and chlorine , and rose- mary . It makes the sky and the hills sublime ; and the silent song of the stars is it . Always the seer is a sayer ...
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... religion ; the assumption that the age of inspiration is past , that the Bible is closed ; the fear of degrading the character of Jesus by representing him as a man , indicate with sufficient clearness the falsehood of our theology . It ...
... religion ; the assumption that the age of inspiration is past , that the Bible is closed ; the fear of degrading the character of Jesus by representing him as a man , indicate with sufficient clearness the falsehood of our theology . It ...
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... RELIGION 19 IV . OF REVENGE . V. OF ADVERSITY • • 4I 47 VI . OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION VII . OF PARENTS AND CHILDREN 58 66 VIII . OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE • 70 IX . OF ENVY . 75 X. OF LOVE . 83 XI . OF GREAT PLACE 87 XII . OF ...
... RELIGION 19 IV . OF REVENGE . V. OF ADVERSITY • • 4I 47 VI . OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION VII . OF PARENTS AND CHILDREN 58 66 VIII . OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE • 70 IX . OF ENVY . 75 X. OF LOVE . 83 XI . OF GREAT PLACE 87 XII . OF ...
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... religious , inquiry - the strong conviction of its value . To this must be united a distrust of ourselves . Men miss truth more often from their indifference about it than from intellec- The chief part of what follows , I have taken the ...
... religious , inquiry - the strong conviction of its value . To this must be united a distrust of ourselves . Men miss truth more often from their indifference about it than from intellec- The chief part of what follows , I have taken the ...
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... religion satisfactory , but will weigh the evidence the more care- fully , on account of the importance of the question . But indifference of the will and indifference of the judgment are two very distinct things that are often ...
... religion satisfactory , but will weigh the evidence the more care- fully , on account of the importance of the question . But indifference of the will and indifference of the judgment are two very distinct things that are often ...
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Page 248 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Page 148 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an Opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose :
Page 375 - His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed : Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Page 135 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Page 505 - And they shall be mine, Saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels : And I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Then shall ye return, And discern between the righteous and the wicked, Between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Page 47 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Page 84 - There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable; as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind ; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.
Page 217 - All this is true, if time stood still; which, contrariwise, moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation; and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that men in their innovations, would follow the example of time itself, which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived...
Page 429 - Bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again: if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores...
Page 391 - There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.