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... better enforced . ( 1 ) The kingdoms of nature are presented to our senses in a succession of material actions , so adapted to one another as to end in harmony and order . All these changes and movements among the things around us seem ...
... better enforced . ( 1 ) The kingdoms of nature are presented to our senses in a succession of material actions , so adapted to one another as to end in harmony and order . All these changes and movements among the things around us seem ...
Page xii
... better stated than in the homely and graphic argument of Socrates ( infra p . 151 ) : The eye is made to see , the ear is made to hear , and the organs of every living being , so far as we can comprehend them , have a design and purpose ...
... better stated than in the homely and graphic argument of Socrates ( infra p . 151 ) : The eye is made to see , the ear is made to hear , and the organs of every living being , so far as we can comprehend them , have a design and purpose ...
Page xxxvi
... better than a mockery ) , the Author has not advanced so much as one unequivocal instance in support of it . The voice of all nature is against him . But he has published his Explanations , a Sequel to the Vestiges , & c . , wherein he ...
... better than a mockery ) , the Author has not advanced so much as one unequivocal instance in support of it . The voice of all nature is against him . But he has published his Explanations , a Sequel to the Vestiges , & c . , wherein he ...
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... better than a misconception and a blunder * . It has been said , however , that animals undergo a progressive development while they pass through their successive foetal conditions in the womb . True ! and many of them , while in the ...
... better than a misconception and a blunder * . It has been said , however , that animals undergo a progressive development while they pass through their successive foetal conditions in the womb . True ! and many of them , while in the ...
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... better than a doubtful answer to such a question as this . Sir R. I. Murchison thinks he has seen such a group in Scandinavia . It contains Fucoids , rests unconformably on crystalline or metamorphic rocks , and underlies all the other ...
... better than a doubtful answer to such a question as this . Sir R. I. Murchison thinks he has seen such a group in Scandinavia . It contains Fucoids , rests unconformably on crystalline or metamorphic rocks , and underlies all the other ...
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Page 71 - God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; by pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left...
Page clxxii - To conclude therefore: Let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's Word, or in the book of God's Works — Divinity or Philosophy; — but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both.
Page 13 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
Page 21 - THE FOOL hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
Page 164 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Page ccclxxxii - THE Romish doctrine concerning purgatory, pardons, worshipping, and adoration, as well of images, as of reliques, and also invocation of saints, is a fond thing vainly invented, and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture, but rather repugnant to the word of God.
Page 142 - ... in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause; but when a man passeth on...
Page 142 - But further, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion. For in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell .and stay there it may induce some oblivion of the highest...
Page cclxxxi - Jesus: that ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts ; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind ; and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour : for we are members one of another.