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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... truth alone is valuable on these great subjects , as on every other , he has been anxious to avert from himself , and to avoid , in what he lays before others , whatever was likely to be of an opposite character . But still the result ...
... truth alone is valuable on these great subjects , as on every other , he has been anxious to avert from himself , and to avoid , in what he lays before others , whatever was likely to be of an opposite character . But still the result ...
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... truth , and with the freedom and sincerity which will give them their chief value ; and there- fore in the phrases which thus naturally occurred to him ; and to make this general disclaimer of any presumptuous assumption that he only ...
... truth , and with the freedom and sincerity which will give them their chief value ; and there- fore in the phrases which thus naturally occurred to him ; and to make this general disclaimer of any presumptuous assumption that he only ...
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... truth and the benefit of man- kind ought to supersede and silence every private purpose . Care indeed should be taken to avoid producing evil when we desire to do good , or our philanthropy will be a mis- chief instead of a benefit ...
... truth and the benefit of man- kind ought to supersede and silence every private purpose . Care indeed should be taken to avoid producing evil when we desire to do good , or our philanthropy will be a mis- chief instead of a benefit ...
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... truth in every science , ennobling our common nature , and daily spreading happiness and benefit among us all . The same consequences will attend the cultivation of divine philosophy . There have been plenty of mistakes ex- pressed and ...
... truth in every science , ennobling our common nature , and daily spreading happiness and benefit among us all . The same consequences will attend the cultivation of divine philosophy . There have been plenty of mistakes ex- pressed and ...
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... truth we sigh for . He desires us to know him truly . The whole history of an- tiquity , and of all modern pagan nations , shows that any other than the correct knowledge of him only fills the mind VOL . II . - C with the absurdest ...
... truth we sigh for . He desires us to know him truly . The whole history of an- tiquity , and of all modern pagan nations , shows that any other than the correct knowledge of him only fills the mind VOL . II . - C with the absurdest ...
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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...