The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]1851 |
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... less than the great law of causation . ' Il doit pour le moins y avoir autant de réalité dans la cause efficient qu'il y a dans l'effet . ' We may observe here , that all the Cartesians made a grievous mistake in not giving proper ...
... less than the great law of causation . ' Il doit pour le moins y avoir autant de réalité dans la cause efficient qu'il y a dans l'effet . ' We may observe here , that all the Cartesians made a grievous mistake in not giving proper ...
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... less galling , though of a different class . There was the tyranny of a literary democracy , when the fate of poet and philosopher , essayist , dramatist , and divine , was settled by the satire of Boileau , and the wit of Voltaire ...
... less galling , though of a different class . There was the tyranny of a literary democracy , when the fate of poet and philosopher , essayist , dramatist , and divine , was settled by the satire of Boileau , and the wit of Voltaire ...
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... less fortu- nately circumstanced . This is in itself truly meritorious , and the manner in which they acquit themselves in a strange tongue , entering boldly into competition with the splendid array of our native writers , is quite ...
... less fortu- nately circumstanced . This is in itself truly meritorious , and the manner in which they acquit themselves in a strange tongue , entering boldly into competition with the splendid array of our native writers , is quite ...
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was going on , you would be a dead man , no less than your servant there at the window , who thinks he watches us , while we watch him . But I saw you help a lady out of the carriage , and take her to the adjoining room . We never will ...
was going on , you would be a dead man , no less than your servant there at the window , who thinks he watches us , while we watch him . But I saw you help a lady out of the carriage , and take her to the adjoining room . We never will ...
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... less initiated into the method and substance of science , and since it surely behoves every really living soul to drink into the spirit of his age , it is a matter of first - rate importance that the young should be led into the new ...
... less initiated into the method and substance of science , and since it surely behoves every really living soul to drink into the spirit of his age , it is a matter of first - rate importance that the young should be led into the new ...
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Page 4 - ... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below"; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Page 661 - The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ ? For we being many are one bread, and one body : for we are all partakers of that one '.bread,
Page 177 - Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing ; for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
Page 705 - None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord.
Page 410 - God forbid : yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
Page 353 - In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel ; And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
Page 369 - God, is the only supreme governor of this realm, and of all other his Highness's dominions and countries, as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes as temporal; and that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within his Majesty's said realms, dominions and countries.
Page 427 - THE sun makes music as of old Amid the rival spheres of Heaven, On its predestined circle rolled With thunder speed : the Angels even Draw strength from gazing on its glance, Though none its meaning fathom may ; — The world's unwithered countenance Is bright as at creation's day.
Page 261 - O come, let us sing unto the Lord ; let us heartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation.
Page 13 - ... recurring to the examination of the idea of a Perfect Being, I found that the existence of the Being was comprised in the idea in the same way that the equality of its three angles to two right angles is comprised in the idea of a triangle...