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... give us , therefore , a clear proof of the doctrine of Final Causes ; and these causes have not , according to one of the quaint conceits of Bacon , been unfruitful , like virgins dedicated to God ; but in the hands of Cuvier , Owen ...
... give us , therefore , a clear proof of the doctrine of Final Causes ; and these causes have not , according to one of the quaint conceits of Bacon , been unfruitful , like virgins dedicated to God ; but in the hands of Cuvier , Owen ...
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Adam Sedgwick. The materialist school must , in some form or other , give an affirmative answer to these questions . And how have they given even the semblance of truth to their dogmatic theory of development ? By first discarding the ...
Adam Sedgwick. The materialist school must , in some form or other , give an affirmative answer to these questions . And how have they given even the semblance of truth to their dogmatic theory of development ? By first discarding the ...
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... give colour to his hypothesis , and to bring the successive organic types , whether animal or vegetable , into a seem- ing accordance with it . I wish not to misrepresent him , and I should gain nothing by the attempt . First , he ...
... give colour to his hypothesis , and to bring the successive organic types , whether animal or vegetable , into a seem- ing accordance with it . I wish not to misrepresent him , and I should gain nothing by the attempt . First , he ...
Page lxxxvii
... give the reader another example of the Author's logical skill ; and it exhibits one of those cases of plausible , verbal sophistry , which have so often cheated men , ill acquainted with facts , into unwarrant- able conclusions . After ...
... give the reader another example of the Author's logical skill ; and it exhibits one of those cases of plausible , verbal sophistry , which have so often cheated men , ill acquainted with facts , into unwarrant- able conclusions . After ...
Page xc
... gives us one good marine fauna between the Paleozoic rocks and the Lias which forms the base of the Oolites . Unfortunately ... give us therefore the first distinct organic step among the marine deposits , XC PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION .
... gives us one good marine fauna between the Paleozoic rocks and the Lias which forms the base of the Oolites . Unfortunately ... give us therefore the first distinct organic step among the marine deposits , XC PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION .
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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.