English Prose: Eighteenth centurySir Henry Craik Macmillan, 1911 |
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... look on the latter with a jealous eye , as an instrument and engine of Satan ; who measure all truth by authority ; all credibility by testimony ; by which authority still and testimony they mean little more than their own , and to draw ...
... look on the latter with a jealous eye , as an instrument and engine of Satan ; who measure all truth by authority ; all credibility by testimony ; by which authority still and testimony they mean little more than their own , and to draw ...
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... look through a long series of events , may behold happiness resulting from vice , and good springing out of evil in a thousand instances . To prove my point I shall not trouble you with authorities or far - fetched argu- ments , but ...
... look through a long series of events , may behold happiness resulting from vice , and good springing out of evil in a thousand instances . To prove my point I shall not trouble you with authorities or far - fetched argu- ments , but ...
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... look only on the surface and first appearance of things , you will no doubt think playing at cards a very idle and fruitless occupation . But dive deeper , and you shall perceive this idle amusement employs the card - maker , and he ...
... look only on the surface and first appearance of things , you will no doubt think playing at cards a very idle and fruitless occupation . But dive deeper , and you shall perceive this idle amusement employs the card - maker , and he ...
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... look no farther for realities or causes , till intellect begins to dawn , and cast a ray on this shadowy scene . We then perceive the true principle of unity , identity and exist- ence . Those things that before seemed to constitute the ...
... look no farther for realities or causes , till intellect begins to dawn , and cast a ray on this shadowy scene . We then perceive the true principle of unity , identity and exist- ence . Those things that before seemed to constitute the ...
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... look into their own thoughts and see . It will be urged that thus much at least is true , to wit , that we take away all corporeal substances . To this my answer is , that if the word substance be taken in the vulgar sense , for a ...
... look into their own thoughts and see . It will be urged that thus much at least is true , to wit , that we take away all corporeal substances . To this my answer is , that if the word substance be taken in the vulgar sense , for a ...
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Página 503 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Página 456 - For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book and all the people. Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
Página 190 - Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Página 50 - Now, when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John, who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost (for as yet he was fallen upon none of them; only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus). Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
Página 190 - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow...
Página 59 - That Christ was manifested to destroy the works of the devil. (2) That as in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive. From the beginning to the end of Christ's atoning work, no other power is ascribed to it, nothing else is intended by it, as an appeaser of wrath, but the destroying of all that in man which comes from the devil ; no other merits, or value, or infinite worth, than that of its infinite ability...
Página 385 - America, gentlemen say, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting for. Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions and their habits. Those who understand the military art will, of course, have some predilection for it. Those who wield the thunder of the State may have more confidence in the efficacy of arms. But i confess, possibly for want of this knowledge, my opinion is much...
Página 590 - A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep...
Página 371 - I was ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single and only talked of population.
Página 82 - The Wise Man observes, that there is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence. One meets with people in the world, who seem never to have made the last of these observations. And yet these great talkers do not at all speak from their having any thing to say, as every sentence shows, but only from their inclination to be talking.