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Page xvii
... fact , views , like those just pointed at , have been brought forward again and again by men who have denied the ... facts rather than opinions . Whatever semblance of truth they may have , while we arrest ourselves among the laws of ...
... fact , views , like those just pointed at , have been brought forward again and again by men who have denied the ... facts rather than opinions . Whatever semblance of truth they may have , while we arrest ourselves among the laws of ...
Page xx
... facts , to which he first clung to support his argument , may be rescued from his grasp , one after another . But he will not easily change or modify his first opinions : for , speaking of specific transmutations , he has told us - that ...
... facts , to which he first clung to support his argument , may be rescued from his grasp , one after another . But he will not easily change or modify his first opinions : for , speaking of specific transmutations , he has told us - that ...
Page xxvi
... facts and analogies offered to our senses . In this instance it will not serve our purpose to entrench ourselves among the dark corners of the animal kingdom ; where , ( as in the case of the Entozoa , ) from the inevitable want of evi ...
... facts and analogies offered to our senses . In this instance it will not serve our purpose to entrench ourselves among the dark corners of the animal kingdom ; where , ( as in the case of the Entozoa , ) from the inevitable want of evi ...
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... facts in living nature bearing on the hypothesis of development as stated by the Author of the Vestiges ? He dwells ... fact as the support of a sound theory . The broad intelligible fact is this : —whatever transformations their progeny ...
... facts in living nature bearing on the hypothesis of development as stated by the Author of the Vestiges ? He dwells ... fact as the support of a sound theory . The broad intelligible fact is this : —whatever transformations their progeny ...
Page xxviii
... p . 68 , 1. 30 , and 1. 33 , for Hyatid read Hydatid : p . 74 , 1. 24 , for spermatazoa read spermatozoa . do is to state a series of fundamental facts , xxviii PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION . A Examples of the Method of Induction PAGE.
... p . 68 , 1. 30 , and 1. 33 , for Hyatid read Hydatid : p . 74 , 1. 24 , for spermatazoa read spermatozoa . do is to state a series of fundamental facts , xxviii PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION . A Examples of the Method of Induction PAGE.
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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.