The unseen universe; or, Physical speculations on a future state [by B. Stewart and P.G. Tait].1875 |
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... conceive the possibility of a spiritual body which shall not die with the natural body . Or rather , he conceives that he is in a position to assert , from his knowledge of the universe , that such a thing cannot be . We join issue with ...
... conceive the possibility of a spiritual body which shall not die with the natural body . Or rather , he conceives that he is in a position to assert , from his knowledge of the universe , that such a thing cannot be . We join issue with ...
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... conceive to rise again . It is well known that Pythagoras taught the doctrine of transmigration , although as none of his writings have come down to us we are not sure of the exact manner in which he held it . Plato also , in a passage ...
... conceive to rise again . It is well known that Pythagoras taught the doctrine of transmigration , although as none of his writings have come down to us we are not sure of the exact manner in which he held it . Plato also , in a passage ...
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... conceived them as exercising no influence whatever upon the world or man . " " It is of such gods the poet speaks when he says— " For they lie beside their nectar , and the bolts are hurl'd Far below them in the valleys , and the clouds ...
... conceived them as exercising no influence whatever upon the world or man . " " It is of such gods the poet speaks when he says— " For they lie beside their nectar , and the bolts are hurl'd Far below them in the valleys , and the clouds ...
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... conceive such an existence as a disembodied spirit , they were forced to conclude like Priestley , ' that the soul in its nature is not immortal . At this point , however , the scientific school splits up into two or even three sections ...
... conceive such an existence as a disembodied spirit , they were forced to conclude like Priestley , ' that the soul in its nature is not immortal . At this point , however , the scientific school splits up into two or even three sections ...
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... conceive , maintain in some sense the supremacy of law or the invariability of the procedure adopted by the Deity in the government of the universe ( Art . 36 ) ; both maintain likewise that the outer works of the visible universe are ...
... conceive , maintain in some sense the supremacy of law or the invariability of the procedure adopted by the Deity in the government of the universe ( Art . 36 ) ; both maintain likewise that the outer works of the visible universe are ...
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Page 24 - There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars ; for one star differeth from another star in glory, so also is the resurrection of the dead.
Page 203 - And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment; and he saith unto him, Friend, how earnest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Page 118 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 151 - But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
Page 152 - I WAGE not any feud with Death For changes wrought on form and face ; No lower life that earth's embrace May breed with him can fright my faith. Eternal process moving on, From state to state the spirit walks ; And these are but the shatter'd stalks, Or ruin'd chrysalis of one.
Page 14 - Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.
Page 150 - What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands ; thou hast put all things under his feet...
Page 35 - To be no more : sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity., To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion?
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Page 201 - Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us ; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry ? And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.