The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Bind 8Adam and Charles Black, 1890 |
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... RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE PAGE 1 TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE 35 PLATO'S REPUBLIC POSTSCRIPT KANT IN HIS MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS GLANCE AT THE WORKS OF MACKINTOSH MIRACLES AS SUBJECTS OF TESTIMONY POSTSCRIPT JUDAS ISCARIOT 42 • 82 84 127 157 176 ...
... RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE PAGE 1 TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE 35 PLATO'S REPUBLIC POSTSCRIPT KANT IN HIS MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS GLANCE AT THE WORKS OF MACKINTOSH MIRACLES AS SUBJECTS OF TESTIMONY POSTSCRIPT JUDAS ISCARIOT 42 • 82 84 127 157 176 ...
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... Relations of the Bible to merely Human Science connects itself naturally enough with the matter of the preceding paper , but is of wider application . It expounds an idea of De Quincey's on the subject of Biblical Inspiration well ...
... Relations of the Bible to merely Human Science connects itself naturally enough with the matter of the preceding paper , but is of wider application . It expounds an idea of De Quincey's on the subject of Biblical Inspiration well ...
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... relations of space . And the brute is no more capable of apprehending abysses through his eye than he can build upwards or can analyse downwards the aerial synthesis of Geometry . Such , therefore , as is space for the grandeur of man's ...
... relations of space . And the brute is no more capable of apprehending abysses through his eye than he can build upwards or can analyse downwards the aerial synthesis of Geometry . Such , therefore , as is space for the grandeur of man's ...
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... relation to our system , whose distance from ourselves ( as Dr. Nichol tells us ) is ascertained to be about six hundred and seventy thousand times our own distance from the sun — that is , neglecting minute accuracy , about six hundred ...
... relation to our system , whose distance from ourselves ( as Dr. Nichol tells us ) is ascertained to be about six hundred and seventy thousand times our own distance from the sun — that is , neglecting minute accuracy , about six hundred ...
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... relations , and which yet may lie in very different depths of space , being brought into seeming connexion only by the human eye . There have been , and there are , cases where two stars dissemble an interconnexion which they really ...
... relations , and which yet may lie in very different depths of space , being brought into seeming connexion only by the human eye . There have been , and there are , cases where two stars dissemble an interconnexion which they really ...
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Side 191 - If ye think good, give me my price ; and if not, forbear." So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. And the Lord said unto me, "Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prized at of them!" And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord.
Side 191 - Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of Him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value ; and gave them for the potter's field, as the LORD appointed me.
Side 189 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Side 439 - A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
Side 421 - Oppress'd with numbers in th' unequal field, His men discourag'd, and himself expell'd, Let him for succour sue from place to place, Torn from his subjects, and his son's embrace. First let him see his friends in battle slain, And their untimely fate lament in vain: And when at length the cruel war shall cease, On hard conditions may he buy his peace: Nor let him then enjoy supreme command ; But fall, untimely, by some hostile hand, And lie unburied on the barren sand!
Side 335 - Biathanatos, a Declaration of that Paradox, or Thesis, that Self-Homicide is not so naturally Sin, that it may never be otherwise.
Side 85 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost...
Side 193 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not...
Side 34 - End is there none?" the angel solemnly demanded: " Is there indeed no end ? And is this the sorrow that kills you ? " But no voice answered, that he might answer himself. Then the angel threw up his glorious hands to the heaven of heavens ; saying, " End is there none to the universe of God ? Lo ! also there is no Beginning.
Side 33 - God called up from dreams a man into the vestibule of heaven, saying, ' Come thou hither and see the glory of my house.' And to the servants that stood around his throne he said, ' Take him and undress him from his robes of flesh ; cleanse his vision and put a new breath into his nostrils ; only touch not with any change his human heart — the heart that weeps and trembles.