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... future generations . But it awakens a new hope for humanity now that the old are fallen dumb ; as Metchnikoff himself says , " If it be true that man cannot live without faith , this volume , when the age of faith seemed gone by , has ...
... future generations . But it awakens a new hope for humanity now that the old are fallen dumb ; as Metchnikoff himself says , " If it be true that man cannot live without faith , this volume , when the age of faith seemed gone by , has ...
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... future butterfly , continued peaceably to spin , without in the least modifying the regular progress of its labour ; when the time had arrived for the putting in of the last defensive stitches it placed them in the perilous breach , but ...
... future butterfly , continued peaceably to spin , without in the least modifying the regular progress of its labour ; when the time had arrived for the putting in of the last defensive stitches it placed them in the perilous breach , but ...
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... future . Man certainly is a social animal , but the instinct impelling him towards union with his fellows is of recent origin . Such animal societies as are to be found among insects are not comparable with human associations . Among ...
... future . Man certainly is a social animal , but the instinct impelling him towards union with his fellows is of recent origin . Such animal societies as are to be found among insects are not comparable with human associations . Among ...
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... future dwelling - place of old age ? " Another time Çakya - Mouni met on the road a man consumed by fever , his body weakened , * The “ Lalita Vistara , " pp . 166–170 . his breathing difficult . Informed by his coachman that the ...
... future dwelling - place of old age ? " Another time Çakya - Mouni met on the road a man consumed by fever , his body weakened , * The “ Lalita Vistara , " pp . 166–170 . his breathing difficult . Informed by his coachman that the ...
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... future played a considerable part in it . " Beyond that which we see , " says Finot , " there is always something that we cannot see , and it is the invisible that we fear . " † The idea that death is generally attended by pain seems to ...
... future played a considerable part in it . " Beyond that which we see , " says Finot , " there is always something that we cannot see , and it is the invisible that we fear . " † The idea that death is generally attended by pain seems to ...
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Page 291 - Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Page 161 - For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
Page 291 - ... then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
Page 160 - LORD empty: every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.
Page 278 - Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.
Page 13 - I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
Page 289 - Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during •which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
Page 175 - tis not in The harmony of things, — this hard decree, This uneradicable taint of sin, This boundless upas, this all-blasting tree...
Page 82 - Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die...
Page 224 - I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.