Miscellaneous Essays and DiscoursesT.R. Marvin, 1847 - 514 pagini |
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Pagina 19
... means follows , because the argument from design is generally stated as the formal proof of the being of a God , that it is therefore the real ground of our belief ; for it often happens that we are ourselves fully convinced of a truth ...
... means follows , because the argument from design is generally stated as the formal proof of the being of a God , that it is therefore the real ground of our belief ; for it often happens that we are ourselves fully convinced of a truth ...
Pagina 27
... means embarrass them . What follows proves that the workman , on discovering his error , knew how to rec- tify it . A wall had been erected , with the view of sus- taining a vaulted ceiling , still incomplete , that had been projected ...
... means embarrass them . What follows proves that the workman , on discovering his error , knew how to rec- tify it . A wall had been erected , with the view of sus- taining a vaulted ceiling , still incomplete , that had been projected ...
Pagina 28
... perfect than the result , or more admirable than the means taken to accomplish it . But whatever power of varying from these laws , to meet particular emergencies , nature possesses , this power , call it what we may 28.
... perfect than the result , or more admirable than the means taken to accomplish it . But whatever power of varying from these laws , to meet particular emergencies , nature possesses , this power , call it what we may 28.
Pagina 32
... means identical . Wisdom is judged of from the end pur- sued ; knowledge , from the means taken in pursuing it . Man is always a knowing , but not often a wise being . His contrivances are fitted to his ends , but his ends are folly ...
... means identical . Wisdom is judged of from the end pur- sued ; knowledge , from the means taken in pursuing it . Man is always a knowing , but not often a wise being . His contrivances are fitted to his ends , but his ends are folly ...
Pagina 35
... mean by nature , its adapta- tions must tend to something , and why not to happiness as well as to any thing else ? How can we know that these contrivances arise from any thing higher than that which causes the parent bird to build its ...
... mean by nature , its adapta- tions must tend to something , and why not to happiness as well as to any thing else ? How can we know that these contrivances arise from any thing higher than that which causes the parent bird to build its ...
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action adapted affections American Bible Society argument from design arts association atheism beauty become benevolence Berkshire Bible burden called cause character Christ Christian church connection conscience constitution corruption course cultivated distinction divine grace duty earth emotions enjoyment equally evil existence external fact faculties feeling free institutions give Gospel happiness heathen heaven Hence highest holy honor human idea individual influence intellectual Jews kind knowledge labor liberty look manifested means ment mind moral moral character mystery nations natural theology nature never object observe original perfect perfect law perhaps physi physical pleasure present principle progress Puritan reason regard relations religion religious respect Sabbath Saviour sense social society soul spirit storms of passion sublime suppose sustained taste thing thought tion true truth unto vidual whole WILLIAMS COLLEGE wisdom worship young
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Pagina 169 - For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
Pagina 430 - For it was not an enemy that reproached me ; Then I could have borne it : Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me ; Then I would have hid myself from him : But it was thou, a man mine equal, My guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, And walked unto the house of God in company.
Pagina 489 - If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord...
Pagina 240 - MY heart leaps up when I behold A Rainbow in the sky : So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a Man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! The Child is Father of the Man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety, TO A BUTTERFLY.
Pagina 435 - We are made as the filth of the world, and the offscouring of all things unto this day.— 1 Cor.
Pagina 159 - For such an High Priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens ; who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's : for this He did once, when He offered up Himself.
Pagina 490 - But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
Pagina 107 - Of nature, and though poor perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers ; his to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel. But who with filial confidence inspired Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say — My Father made them all.
Pagina 490 - Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city ? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.
Pagina 136 - The Sluggard Pity's vision-weaving Tribe ! Who sigh for Wretchedness, yet shun the wretched, Nursing in some delicious solitude Their slothful loves and dainty Sympathies!