Sacred History of the World: Attempted to be Philosophically Considered, in a Series of Letters to a Son, Band 2,Ausgabe 72Harper, 1844 |
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... principle , wish , and feel- ing ; but in the particular applications of these , a variety of inference and judgment always appears . Diversity of opinion must therefore be anticipated and submitted to , and on no subject of mental ...
... principle , wish , and feel- ing ; but in the particular applications of these , a variety of inference and judgment always appears . Diversity of opinion must therefore be anticipated and submitted to , and on no subject of mental ...
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... principles , which are steadily fol- lowed in connected and successful operation . Such results are evidence of a contriving and presiding mind , and are what intelligent agency alone could produce . When effects or events occur in ...
... principles , which are steadily fol- lowed in connected and successful operation . Such results are evidence of a contriving and presiding mind , and are what intelligent agency alone could produce . When effects or events occur in ...
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... principles by which his moral government of our affairs are directed , and especially in their personal application to each of us respectively . Nothing can exceed the moment- ous importance of the knowledge of these things to every ...
... principles by which his moral government of our affairs are directed , and especially in their personal application to each of us respectively . Nothing can exceed the moment- ous importance of the knowledge of these things to every ...
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... principle of common sense or sound judgment . But however adverse to these , still it has repeatedly appeared , and is very opera- tive in many individual cases at this moment . We may , without any abusive meaning , attach the epithet ...
... principle of common sense or sound judgment . But however adverse to these , still it has repeatedly appeared , and is very opera- tive in many individual cases at this moment . We may , without any abusive meaning , attach the epithet ...
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... principle of seeking to make their actions conformable to the will of heaven , and of not going contrary to it ; but , from ignorance and per- verting superstitions , they took the wrong paths , selected wrong objects , and made what ...
... principle of seeking to make their actions conformable to the will of heaven , and of not going contrary to it ; but , from ignorance and per- verting superstitions , they took the wrong paths , selected wrong objects , and made what ...
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Adam and Eve agencies ancient animals appear appointed Arabs arise beautiful become birds body called cause Cecrops character civilized continued creation Creator cultivated Deity deluge descendants Deucalion diluvian divine earth Edom effect Egypt Egyptian Esau excite existence external fact father feelings female globe gneiss Grecian Greece habits happy Hesiod human nature human race ideas impressions improvement individual infer inhabitants intellectual intelligent Ishmael islands Jewish Josephus kind knowledge land laws living Macedonian dynasty males mankind means ment mentions miles mind Mizraim moral mountains nations never ocean operation opinions ourselves peculiar perceive Phenicians Plato pleasure Plutarch population portion present principle produce quadrupeds reason regions remarks result rocks sacred history says sensations sensibilities Socrates soil soul species spirit square miles Strabo subsistence surface Syria things thou thought tion tribes truth universal vegetation
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Seite 175 - The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest — Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast...
Seite 218 - And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering : but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.
Seite 171 - IT is the first mild day of March : Each minute sweeter than before, The redbreast sings from the tall larch That stands beside our door. There is a blessing in the air, Which seems a sense of joy to yield To the bare trees, and mountains bare And grass in the green field.
Seite 108 - We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.
Seite 174 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Seite 124 - Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Seite 400 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Seite 395 - And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above; And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
Seite 170 - I never hear the loud, solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild, mixing cadence of a troop of gray plovers in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.
Seite 173 - Oh ! pleasant, pleasant were the days, The time, when, in our childish plays, My sister Emmeline and I Together chased the butterfly ! A very hunter did I rush Upon the prey : — with leaps and springs I followed on from...