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... sublime but more certain footing , and not to reject the substance whilst clutching the shadow . Its plea is this . Whilst such chaos of opinion exists as to the very meaning of this Infinite , Absolute , Supreme Being , over whose ...
... sublime but more certain footing , and not to reject the substance whilst clutching the shadow . Its plea is this . Whilst such chaos of opinion exists as to the very meaning of this Infinite , Absolute , Supreme Being , over whose ...
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... Plato , that his doc- trine of Ideas was sublime , subtle , magnificent , —but unpractical and useless . Theologians such as that noble spirit whom I knew and honoured , F. D. Maurice , in vain seem 18 THE POSITIVE EVOLUTION OF RELIGION.
... Plato , that his doc- trine of Ideas was sublime , subtle , magnificent , —but unpractical and useless . Theologians such as that noble spirit whom I knew and honoured , F. D. Maurice , in vain seem 18 THE POSITIVE EVOLUTION OF RELIGION.
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... sublime ideal of eternal bliss . It is a power- ful engine , as was found by Mahomet , Peter the Her- mit , Calvin , and Wesley - but it has its dark and danger- ous side , and they are now universally recognised . Philosophers of the ...
... sublime ideal of eternal bliss . It is a power- ful engine , as was found by Mahomet , Peter the Her- mit , Calvin , and Wesley - but it has its dark and danger- ous side , and they are now universally recognised . Philosophers of the ...
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... sublime in an indistinguishable mass . All that we really know is this : that , except a few of the letters of Paul , and some invectives of the later preachers of Israel , hardly a single piece in the whole collection can be safely ...
... sublime in an indistinguishable mass . All that we really know is this : that , except a few of the letters of Paul , and some invectives of the later preachers of Israel , hardly a single piece in the whole collection can be safely ...
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... sublime and paramount ideal of power and glory in the mind of each individual , which he thinks nothing else on earth can be worthy to expound . This was seen in a very marked way in those extreme forms of Puritanism which discarded ...
... sublime and paramount ideal of power and glory in the mind of each individual , which he thinks nothing else on earth can be worthy to expound . This was seen in a very marked way in those extreme forms of Puritanism which discarded ...
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Page 181 - ... the Dissidence of Dissent and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion. I do not say that other and more intelligent forces than this were not opposed to the Oxford movement : but this was the force which really beat it ; this was the force which Dr. Newman...