Miscellanies, Band 2Hilliard, Gray, 1836 |
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... operations of this faculty had not been closely investigated by diligent inquirers , we should not yet have obtained any adequate conception of the nature of its influence ; or have been emancipated from the superstitions which it has ...
... operations of this faculty had not been closely investigated by diligent inquirers , we should not yet have obtained any adequate conception of the nature of its influence ; or have been emancipated from the superstitions which it has ...
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... months , bleeding was resorted to , as it surely ought to have been some time before . During the operation , at eleven in the forenoon , the chamber was crowded with human phantoms , which remained DEMONOLOGY AND WITCHCRAFT . 103.
... months , bleeding was resorted to , as it surely ought to have been some time before . During the operation , at eleven in the forenoon , the chamber was crowded with human phantoms , which remained DEMONOLOGY AND WITCHCRAFT . 103.
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... operation of bodily disease and mental excitement may occasion a yet greater diversity . If impressions awakened by precisely the same means are more powerful in the morning than at night , more DEMONOLOGY AND WITCHCRAFT . 107.
... operation of bodily disease and mental excitement may occasion a yet greater diversity . If impressions awakened by precisely the same means are more powerful in the morning than at night , more DEMONOLOGY AND WITCHCRAFT . 107.
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... operation of this principle should be determined by the facts of the pupil's own con- stitution , as well as by those of his location . This is pro- fessed to be the design of every system of education that is offered to notice ; but we ...
... operation of this principle should be determined by the facts of the pupil's own con- stitution , as well as by those of his location . This is pro- fessed to be the design of every system of education that is offered to notice ; but we ...
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... operation , that we forget our equal responsibility in others . What good principles we have laid hold of , we do ... operations of the reasoning faculty as much as either . Careful as we should be , therefore , in adopting any new ...
... operation , that we forget our equal responsibility in others . What good principles we have laid hold of , we do ... operations of the reasoning faculty as much as either . Careful as we should be , therefore , in adopting any new ...
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Seite 223 - He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him. He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him : for he said, I am the Son of God.
Seite 224 - Christ, save Thyself and us. But the other answering, rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation ? And we indeed justly ; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss. And He said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when Thou comest into Thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily, I say unto thee, To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
Seite 386 - What a sad thing it is to see eight firebrands of hell hanging there ! In October, 1692, one of Wenham complained of mrs.
Seite 94 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succour us that succour want! How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant, 1 Against foul fiends to aid us militant!
Seite 100 - Old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was veiled ; yet to my fancied sight Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined So clear as in no face with more delight. But, oh ! as to embrace me she inclined, I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.
Seite 94 - O th' exceeding grace Of highest God ! that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe. " How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us, that succour want ? How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant Against foul fiends, to aid us militant? They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us...
Seite 330 - It is absolutely necessary for it to be exercised on spiritual objects, if it is to attain its perfect illumination, and bring out that purity of heart which makes us capable of loving virtue for its own sake alone. 81. Or is the human species never to arrive at this highest step of illumination and purity? — Never? 82. Never? — Let me not think this blasphemy, All Merciful! Education has its goal, in the race, no less than in the individual. That which is educated is educated for a purpose.
Seite 236 - I told him that weed contained better arguments for the Being and Attributes of God than all his metaphysics. Clarke confessed it to be so ; but alleged for himself, that since such philosophers as Hobbes and Spinoza had made use of those kinds of subtilties against, he thought it proper to show that the like way of reasoning might be made better use of on the side of religion ; which reason or excuse I allowed to be not inconsiderable.
Seite 116 - Putting idiots and extraordinary cases out of the question, every human creature is endowed with talents (or his nature involves principles) which, if rightly directed, would shew him to be apt, adroit, intelligent, and acute, in the walk for which his organization especially fitted him.
Seite 349 - disgusted at the subject" he proposes to be debated in our future correspondence. It does not "terrify me" to hear, that a person whom I sincerely love, and for whose character I have the truest regard, has entertained some doubts, which he cannot entirely get over, concerning a book which his earliest instructors recommended to him as the word of God. It is certainly the duty of every rational creature to bring his religion to the strictest test, and to retain or reject the faith in which he has...