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... readers will concur . And some may accord- ingly be disposed to complain that they cannot put these works into the hands of any young person under their care , without a risk of his im- bibing notions which they think erroneous . This ...
... readers will concur . And some may accord- ingly be disposed to complain that they cannot put these works into the hands of any young person under their care , without a risk of his im- bibing notions which they think erroneous . This ...
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... reader on his guard against the com- mon error of supposing that a general term has some real object , properly corresponding to it , independent of our conceptions ; — that , consequently , some one definition is to be found which will ...
... reader on his guard against the com- mon error of supposing that a general term has some real object , properly corresponding to it , independent of our conceptions ; — that , consequently , some one definition is to be found which will ...
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... readers , that it would not be worth while to take much pains in refuting them . It is worthy of remark however , that the very same erroneous view is , even now , often taken of Logic ; which has been considered by some as a kind of ...
... readers , that it would not be worth while to take much pains in refuting them . It is worthy of remark however , that the very same erroneous view is , even now , often taken of Logic ; which has been considered by some as a kind of ...
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... reader with a sketch of its history . Little however is required to be said on this head , because the present is not one of those branches of study in which we can trace with interest a progressive improvement from age to age . It is ...
... reader with a sketch of its history . Little however is required to be said on this head , because the present is not one of those branches of study in which we can trace with interest a progressive improvement from age to age . It is ...
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... reader , there is much also that calls for some exertion of thought , which the indolence of most readers refuses to bestow . And it must be owned that he also in some instances perplexes his rea- ders by being perplexed himself , and ...
... reader , there is much also that calls for some exertion of thought , which the indolence of most readers refuses to bestow . And it must be owned that he also in some instances perplexes his rea- ders by being perplexed himself , and ...
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Page 314 - And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
Page 76 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Page 337 - DEARLY beloved brethren, the Scripture moveth us, in sundry places, to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness; and that we should not dissemble nor cloak them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father; but confess them with an humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart; to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same, by his infinite goodness and mercy.
Page 314 - And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.
Page 184 - Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. If then God so clothe the grass, which is to-day in the field, and to-morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith!
Page 112 - Among men, you see the ninety and nine toiling and scraping together a heap of superfluities for one (and this one, too, oftentimes the feeblest and worst of the whole set, a child, a woman, a madman, or a fool) ; getting nothing for themselves all the while, but a little of the coarsest of the provision, which their own industry produces ; looking quietly on, while they see the fruits of all their labour spent or spoiled ; and if one of the number take or touch a particle of the hoard, the others...
Page 213 - When the old feudal and chivalrous spirit of fealty, which, by freeing kings from fear, freed both kings and subjects from the precautions of tyranny, shall be extinct in the minds of men, plots and assassinations will be anticipated by preventive murder and preventive confiscation, and that long roll of grim and bloody maxims which form the political code of all power, not standing on its own honour, and the honour of those who are to obey it. Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are...
Page 188 - These metaphysic rights entering into common life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medium, are, by the laws of Nature, refracted from their straight line. Indeed, in the gross and complicated mass of human passions and concerns, the primitive rights of men undergo such a variety of refractions and reflections that it becomes absurd to talk of them as if they continued in the simplicity of their original direction.
Page 336 - Wherefore I pray and beseech you, as many as are here present, to accompany me with a pure heart and humble voice unto the throne of the heavenly grace, saying after me ; TA General Confession to be said by the whole Congregation after the Minister; all kneeling.
Page 98 - Praecipue cum se numeris commendat et arte : Discit enim citius meminitque libentius illud Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.