Sketches of the History of Man, Volume 2James Williams, 1779 - Civilization |
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... last indifferent about them . Their in- dependence , on the other hand , weans them from their duty to him . And thus , affection between parent and child , which is the corner - ftone of fo- ciety , is in a great measure obliterated ...
... last indifferent about them . Their in- dependence , on the other hand , weans them from their duty to him . And thus , affection between parent and child , which is the corner - ftone of fo- ciety , is in a great measure obliterated ...
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... last step of the procefs is term- ed a conclufion , being the laft or concluding per- ception . No other reafoning affords fo clear a notion of the foregoing process , as that which is mathema- tical . Equality is the only mathematical ...
... last step of the procefs is term- ed a conclufion , being the laft or concluding per- ception . No other reafoning affords fo clear a notion of the foregoing process , as that which is mathema- tical . Equality is the only mathematical ...
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... last century , imagined that Noah's ark is the true conftruction of a fhip ; " which , " faid he , is the workmanship of God , and there- fore perfect ; " as if a veffel made merely for floating on the water , were the beft alfo for ...
... last century , imagined that Noah's ark is the true conftruction of a fhip ; " which , " faid he , is the workmanship of God , and there- fore perfect ; " as if a veffel made merely for floating on the water , were the beft alfo for ...
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Lord Henry Home Kames. who are in continual conflict for preference . At the last day , Oromazes will be reunited to the fu- preme God , from whom he iffued . Arimanes will be fubdued , darkness destroyed ; and the world , purified by an ...
Lord Henry Home Kames. who are in continual conflict for preference . At the last day , Oromazes will be reunited to the fu- preme God , from whom he iffued . Arimanes will be fubdued , darkness destroyed ; and the world , purified by an ...
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... last probably by Ariftotle , yet I confider them as the venerable remains of a philofophy more ancient than Aristotle . Archytas of Taren- tum , an eminent mathematician and philofopher of the Pythagorean fchool , is faid to have wrote ...
... last probably by Ariftotle , yet I confider them as the venerable remains of a philofophy more ancient than Aristotle . Archytas of Taren- tum , an eminent mathematician and philofopher of the Pythagorean fchool , is faid to have wrote ...
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Page 512 - And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.
Page 486 - And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath day, and said unto the people. There are six days in which men ought to work in them therefore come and be healed; and not on the Sabbath day...
Page 455 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down ; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves : they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them : they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Page 463 - ... kneeled, as the others had done, and placed what was brought upon the table, they too retired with the same ceremonies performed by the first. At last came an unmarried lady (we...
Page 463 - A gentleman entered the room bearing a rod, and along with him another, who had a table-cloth, which, after they had both kneeled three times with the utmost veneration, he spread upon the table, and after kneeling again they both retired. Then came two others, one with the rod again, the other with a...
Page 510 - And when Abraham saw that the man blessed not God, he said unto him, Wherefore dost thou not worship the most high God, creator of heaven and earth ? 7.
Page 251 - But if any man think, that from this conceffion he may infer the inutility of logic, he betrays a great want of that art by this inference : for it is no better...
Page 275 - ... and what we ought to do and what we ought not to do, whoever came into the world without having an innate idea of them?
Page 463 - At the end of all this ceremonial a number of unmarried ladies appeared, who, with particular solemnity, lifted the meat off the, table, and conveyed it into the queen's inner and more private chamber, where, after she had chosen for herself, the rest goes to the ladies of the court.
Page 353 - And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God : do therefore what is good in thine eyes.