Mysteries of Life, Death, and Futurity: Illustrated from the Best and Latest AuthoritiesKent & Company, 1861 - 276 sider |
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... observes : " If we look at the constitution of matter , the impossibility of a mass being formed , even though atoms might have been in existence , without the interference of some agency different from any at present operating ...
... observes : " If we look at the constitution of matter , the impossibility of a mass being formed , even though atoms might have been in existence , without the interference of some agency different from any at present operating ...
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... observes , in conclusion : The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes , or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world . A cold atheistical ...
... observes , in conclusion : The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes , or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world . A cold atheistical ...
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... observes : " Independently of any evidence we derive from paleontology , a conception of this kind is so grateful to the imagination , and is so obviously suggested by the clear gradations of living Nature , that our Ideal Organic Scale ...
... observes : " Independently of any evidence we derive from paleontology , a conception of this kind is so grateful to the imagination , and is so obviously suggested by the clear gradations of living Nature , that our Ideal Organic Scale ...
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... observes : " Higgins also points , in his Anacalypsis , at the above identity . He speaks of the dove of Venus as ' a maenad or fanatic bird , crucified on a wheel with four spokes , ' the dove called also Inyx ; and in correlation with ...
... observes : " Higgins also points , in his Anacalypsis , at the above identity . He speaks of the dove of Venus as ' a maenad or fanatic bird , crucified on a wheel with four spokes , ' the dove called also Inyx ; and in correlation with ...
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... observes : " This legend of the two hearts of the elephant is a striking expression of that duality of the physical nature which seems to distinguish tame- able from untameable animals . In an animal of the latter class , whether in its ...
... observes : " This legend of the two hearts of the elephant is a striking expression of that duality of the physical nature which seems to distinguish tame- able from untameable animals . In an animal of the latter class , whether in its ...
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Side 223 - He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment ; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Side 204 - ALMIGHTY God, with whom do live the spirits of them that depart hence in the Lord, and with whom the souls of the faithful, after they are delivered from the burden of the flesh, are in joy and felicity...
Side 210 - And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
Side 202 - Cause my speech is now decayed, Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When, God knows, I'm tossed about, Either with despair or doubt, Yet, before the glass be out, Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When the Tempter me pursu'th With the sins of all my youth, And half damns me with untruth, Sweet Spirit, comfort me!
Side 55 - Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not : for I am thy fellow-servant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book : worship God.
Side 87 - Great wits are sure to madness near allied; And thin partitions do their bounds divide: Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
Side 245 - They sin who tell us Love can die, With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In Heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell ; Earthly these passions of the Earth, They perish where they have their birth ; But Love is indestructible. Its holy flame for ever burneth, From Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth...
Side 22 - And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, And they shall hear the earth ; And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil ; And they shall hear Jezreel.
Side 89 - For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay: And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.
Side 98 - I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, or fancy: but if I could choose what would be most delightful, and I believe most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing; for it makes life a discipline of goodness — creates new hopes, when all earthly hopes vanish; and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and...