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... assumed that they are always credible , but not always capable ; that they testify truly , as far as they know , but that they do not always know what they do testify . The power of seeing accurately and reporting strictly and truly is ...
... assumed that they are always credible , but not always capable ; that they testify truly , as far as they know , but that they do not always know what they do testify . The power of seeing accurately and reporting strictly and truly is ...
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... Assume that he intends to give his name and influence to the new party he has seen fit to join , and treat him as an honest and earnest man , too wise for caprice , too serious to dissemble , and too brave to act the part of a hanger ...
... Assume that he intends to give his name and influence to the new party he has seen fit to join , and treat him as an honest and earnest man , too wise for caprice , too serious to dissemble , and too brave to act the part of a hanger ...
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... assumes identity of analogy all through . He drags in human intelligence , and arbitrarily excludes organisation , an equally relevant relation . If one did not think that Paley was self - deceived , his argument might be said to be ...
... assumes identity of analogy all through . He drags in human intelligence , and arbitrarily excludes organisation , an equally relevant relation . If one did not think that Paley was self - deceived , his argument might be said to be ...
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... assumed as all - good and all - wise , every thing he has made must be exactly the thing . It is ingratitude to question , and blindness not to admire - you cannot criticise without blasphemy . The Natural Theologian praises the divine ...
... assumed as all - good and all - wise , every thing he has made must be exactly the thing . It is ingratitude to question , and blindness not to admire - you cannot criticise without blasphemy . The Natural Theologian praises the divine ...
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... assumed in our investigations into these phenomena . ' † If ' assumed , ' why so much Theistical wrath at the Sceptic for saying so ? If'the idea of a great First Cause ' be ' not derived from nature , ' in what respect does the Sceptic ...
... assumed in our investigations into these phenomena . ' † If ' assumed , ' why so much Theistical wrath at the Sceptic for saying so ? If'the idea of a great First Cause ' be ' not derived from nature , ' in what respect does the Sceptic ...
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Page 128 - If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them : The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out.
Page 128 - Faith no longer supplies implicit confidence, and the practical tone of our day is impatient of that teaching which keeps the word of promise to the ear and breaks it to the hope.
Page 84 - He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. " He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small ; For the dear God who loveth us He made and loveth all.
Page 85 - All true Work is sacred; in all true Work, were it but true hand-labour, there is something of divineness. Labour, wide as the Earth, has its summit in Heaven.
Page 80 - ... so may be God. If he is not in absolute possession of all the propositions that constitute universal truth, the one which he wants may be, that there is a God. If he cannot, with certainty, assign the cause of all that he perceives to exist, that cause may be God. If he does not know...
Page 128 - Had I been any god of power, I would Have sunk the sea within the earth, or e'er It should the good ship so have swallowed, and The freighting souls within her.
Page 85 - As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action. The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature, though for cheap ends. Caratach, in Fletcher's "Bonduca," when admonished to inquire the mind of the god Audate, replies — His hidden meaning lies in our endeavors; Our valors are our best gods.
Page 160 - Quickening my truant feet across the lawn : Unheard the shout that rent the noontide air When the slow dial gave a pause to care. Up springs, at every step, to claim a tear, Some little friendship formed and cherished here ; And not the lightest leaf, but trembling teems With golden visions and romantic dreams.
Page 55 - Is it most likely that there have been ten millions of special creations ? or is it most likely that by continual modifications, due to change of circumstances, ten millions of varieties have been produced, as varieties are being produced still.
Page 56 - For, as our conception of a body is that of an unknown exciting cause of sensations, so our conception of a mind is that of an unknown recipient, or percipient, of them; and not of them alone, but of all our other feelings. As body is understood to be the mysterious something which excites the mind to feel, so mind is the mysterious something which feels and thinks.