Reason and BeliefMoffat, Yard, 1910 - 166 Seiten |
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... force ; God therefore left him free , set before him a provoking object ever almost in his eyes ; herein consisted his merit , herein the right of his reward , the praise of his abstinence . Wherefore did he create passions within us ...
... force ; God therefore left him free , set before him a provoking object ever almost in his eyes ; herein consisted his merit , herein the right of his reward , the praise of his abstinence . Wherefore did he create passions within us ...
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... forces which make for good , if they had a chance of acting , if they were not too heavily handicapped , - humanity itself is good enough , if given a chance . Real badness is excep- tional ; weakness , increased by hopelessness , is ...
... forces which make for good , if they had a chance of acting , if they were not too heavily handicapped , - humanity itself is good enough , if given a chance . Real badness is excep- tional ; weakness , increased by hopelessness , is ...
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... force urges it on To strive , to seek , to find , and not to yield . ' Under the figure of a weapon , Ulysses is pic- tured by Tennyson as lamenting the inactivity of old age- ' How dull it is to pause , to make an end , To rust ...
... force urges it on To strive , to seek , to find , and not to yield . ' Under the figure of a weapon , Ulysses is pic- tured by Tennyson as lamenting the inactivity of old age- ' How dull it is to pause , to make an end , To rust ...
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... force to moral suasion , whether it be towards good or towards evil , is character- istic . But in the Old Testament you will recall cases , too numerous indeed , when in the mouths of priests representations of Deity fell far be- low ...
... force to moral suasion , whether it be towards good or towards evil , is character- istic . But in the Old Testament you will recall cases , too numerous indeed , when in the mouths of priests representations of Deity fell far be- low ...
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... Force would be unnecessary if there were no inertia . Here is a point which demands and is worthy of some elaboration . To seize the meaning fully will require some effort . Exertion of force implies a reaction , it does not necessarily ...
... Force would be unnecessary if there were no inertia . Here is a point which demands and is worthy of some elaboration . To seize the meaning fully will require some effort . Exertion of force implies a reaction , it does not necessarily ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
adventure ancient attained beautiful beginning birth body called calm cerning CHAPTER Christ comets condition conscious darkness Deity Divine doctrine early earth earthly eternity everything evil evolution existence experience explorer F. W. H. Myers fact feel felt Francis Thompson future genius glory gradually hath heat heaven Hebrew Henry Vaughan Hesperides higher science highest human nature human race hypothesis idea imagine incarnate individual insight inspiration instance kind knowledge known light literature living matical matter meaning Memoriam ment method motion Myers Natural Philosophy ness Old Testament OLIVER LODGE pain partially past perception planet Plotinus poet problem problem of evil progress PROGRESSIVE REVELATION prophets Radium realised reality rise scientific sense sometimes soul spirit stage statement suffering surely T. E. Brown Tennyson tested thee theory things Thorium thou thought thro tion true truth Universe utilise utterance vision whole William Blake Word Wordsworth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 121 - Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.
Seite 12 - I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use ! As tho
Seite 46 - Little remains: but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself...
Seite 2 - Whoso hath felt the Spirit of the Highest, Cannot confound nor doubt Him, nor deny ; Yea, with one voice, O world, though thou deniest, Stand thou on that side, for on this am...
Seite 30 - Many there be that complain of Divine Providence for suffering Adam to transgress: foolish tongues! when God gave him reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions.
Seite 64 - O fools and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken : Ought not Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into his glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
Seite 8 - He that hath found some fledged bird's nest may know, At first sight, if the bird be flown ; But what fair well or grove he sings in now, That is to him unknown.
Seite 30 - We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love, or gift, which is of force; God therefore left him free, set before him a provoking object, ever almost in his eyes herein consisted his merit, herein the right of his reward, the praise of his abstinence.
Seite 47 - Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time, with a gift of tears; Grief, with a glass that ran...
Seite 49 - How pure at heart and sound in head, With what divine affections bold Should be the man whose thought would hold An hour's communion with the dead. In vain shalt thou, or any, call The spirits from their golden day, Except, like them, thou too canst say, My spirit is at peace with all. They haunt the silence of the breast, Imaginations calm and fair, The memory like a cloudless air, The conscience as a sea at rest: But when the heart is full of din, And doubt beside the portal waits, They can but...