A philosophical dictionary, from the Fr. [by J.G. Gurton].1824 |
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... means , a point of support and protection against the Germans . He be- came her director , and , after being her director , her heir . I shall not , in this place , examine whether he was really her lover , or whether he only pretended ...
... means , a point of support and protection against the Germans . He be- came her director , and , after being her director , her heir . I shall not , in this place , examine whether he was really her lover , or whether he only pretended ...
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... means I am pleased . When pleasure is conti- nuous , he may then call himself happy . When this happiness lasts a ... mean by this maxim that we should not give the name of happy to a man who had been so con- stantly from his birth to ...
... means I am pleased . When pleasure is conti- nuous , he may then call himself happy . When this happiness lasts a ... mean by this maxim that we should not give the name of happy to a man who had been so con- stantly from his birth to ...
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... means by which the sun , moon , and stars , could turn under the earth , and go to rise in the east after having set in the west . It is true , that these children of ignorance were right by chance in not entertaining the idea that the ...
... means by which the sun , moon , and stars , could turn under the earth , and go to rise in the east after having set in the west . It is true , that these children of ignorance were right by chance in not entertaining the idea that the ...
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... mean and grovelling as we are in all our ideas and usages , we should have invented a system so refined and spiritual as that in question ? We employed the word which most nearly corre- sponds with soul , merely to signify life ; we ...
... mean and grovelling as we are in all our ideas and usages , we should have invented a system so refined and spiritual as that in question ? We employed the word which most nearly corre- sponds with soul , merely to signify life ; we ...
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... means owing to them that St. Martin was not be- headed as a heretic . He was fortunate enough to quit Treves , and escape back to Tours . A single example is sufficient to establish a usage . The first Scythian who scooped out the ...
... means owing to them that St. Martin was not be- headed as a heretic . He was fortunate enough to quit Treves , and escape back to Tours . A single example is sufficient to establish a usage . The first Scythian who scooped out the ...
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Popular passages
Page 162 - And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.
Page 111 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell : but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Page 23 - And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off : it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched : 44 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Page 162 - Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not.
Page 22 - For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And shall burn unto the lowest hell, And shall consume the earth with her increase, And set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Page 22 - And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
Page 127 - We repeat there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.
Page 21 - They have moved me to Jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Page 244 - Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.