 | Emma Newton - 1847 - 230 pages
...love-making or wooing of it, and the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.' For myself, I see so much of holiness and beauty, in the religion of the New Testament, that did I... | |
 | 1880 - 492 pages
...love-making or wooing of it ; the knowledge of Truth, which is the presence of it ; and the belief of Truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature." How few of us even when we do not speak lies are true in act and to ourselves ! Is not this the case... | |
 | James Esdaile - Hypnotism - 1847 - 290 pages
...love-making or wooing of it ; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it ; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it ; is the sovereign good of human nature ;" and that this highest gratification of humanity can only be attained by carefully training and exercising... | |
 | 1847 - 624 pages
...the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature." To which I will add, in the words of Dr. Esdaile,— " That this highest gratification of humanity... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...the love-making, or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign...illumination of his Spirit First, he breathed light upon the fiice of the mailer, or chaos ; then he breathed light into the face of man ; and still he breatheth... | |
 | George Jabet - Character - 1848 - 284 pages
...love-making or wooing of it ; the knowledge of Truth, which is the presence of it ; and the belief of Truth, which is the enjoying of it ; is the sovereign good of human nature. The poet saith excellently well : ' It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon... | |
 | 1849 - 1428 pages
...sovereign good of human nature. The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and his...Spirit. First, he breathed light upon the face of matter, or chaos ; then he breathed light into the face of man ; and still he breatheth and inspireth... | |
 | 1849 - 736 pages
...knowledge of truth, which is the presence <. î it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoyment of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. The...of God, in the works of the days, was the light of sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and his Sabbath work ever since, is the illumination of... | |
 | Phrenology - 1850 - 656 pages
...the love-making or wooing of it ; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it ; is the sovereign good of human nature ;" and that this highest gratification of humanity can only be attained by carefully training and exercising... | |
 | John Locke - Intellect - 1849 - 372 pages
...love-making or wooing of it ; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it ; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it ; is the sovereign good of human uature. The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense ; the last... | |
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... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature. 
