The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]1832 |
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... existence but for disease . The Author of Common Sense ' is endeavouring to draw his reader into a concession that may render him the more easily beguiled and en- tangled by the sophisms it is designed to introduce . But , al- though ...
... existence but for disease . The Author of Common Sense ' is endeavouring to draw his reader into a concession that may render him the more easily beguiled and en- tangled by the sophisms it is designed to introduce . But , al- though ...
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... existence , the well - being , and the progress of Society . And here , the learned Lecturer , not unfor- getful of his higher character as a religious teacher , takes occasion to advert to the grand and overwhelming difficulty which ...
... existence , the well - being , and the progress of Society . And here , the learned Lecturer , not unfor- getful of his higher character as a religious teacher , takes occasion to advert to the grand and overwhelming difficulty which ...
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... existence of evil in the Universe . But two things we can accomplish ; which are very important , and which are probably all that our present faculties and extent of know- ledge can attain to . One is , to perceive clearly , that the ...
... existence of evil in the Universe . But two things we can accomplish ; which are very important , and which are probably all that our present faculties and extent of know- ledge can attain to . One is , to perceive clearly , that the ...
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... existence of this - the proneness , i . e . of Man to let the baser propensities bear rule over Reason and Con- science , and to misdirect his conduct accordingly - this corruption , or original - sin , or frailty , or sinfulness , or ...
... existence of this - the proneness , i . e . of Man to let the baser propensities bear rule over Reason and Con- science , and to misdirect his conduct accordingly - this corruption , or original - sin , or frailty , or sinfulness , or ...
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... existence comfortable , is principally re- sulting from the labours of those who have gone before us . It is a stock which was beyond their own immediate wants , and which was not extinguished with their lives . It is our capital . It ...
... existence comfortable , is principally re- sulting from the labours of those who have gone before us . It is a stock which was beyond their own immediate wants , and which was not extinguished with their lives . It is our capital . It ...
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Page 6 - Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence: the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.
Page 13 - The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding expedients for removing difficulties which never occur.
Page 38 - Let your women keep silence in the churches : for it is not permitted unto them to speak ; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
Page 540 - The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.
Page 52 - God by the weak pinions of our reason, but he has been pleased to descend to us , and what Socrates said of him, what Plato writ, and the rest of the Heathen philosophers of several nations, is all no more than the twilight of revelation, after the sun of it was set in the race of Noah.
Page 219 - It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 192 - Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too. Affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Page 209 - ... and one even put on a military cockade, in order to incite his parishioners to come forward in the public cause. The genuine principles of our admirable constitution were thought by many to be in imminent peril ; yet all who wrote in their defence were exposed to obloquy. A learned prelate asserted, in the House of Lords, that " the people had nothing to do with " the laws but to obey them," and his sentiment was loudly applauded.
Page 348 - Lord, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, or even as this publican.
Page 245 - We have thought fit, by, and with, the Advice of our Privy Council, to...