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... evidence of written language is afforded by them before the giving of the law at Sinai , 1491 years before Christ ; but , after that period and that event , there is mention of writing , when oc- casion of such mention occurs . In the ...
... evidence of written language is afforded by them before the giving of the law at Sinai , 1491 years before Christ ; but , after that period and that event , there is mention of writing , when oc- casion of such mention occurs . In the ...
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... evidence of the senses . It has been said to be identical with belief ; but belief frequently runs short of truth . If truth and belief were the same , opinions could never be wrong , because a person's opinion must be his belief . In ...
... evidence of the senses . It has been said to be identical with belief ; but belief frequently runs short of truth . If truth and belief were the same , opinions could never be wrong , because a person's opinion must be his belief . In ...
Page 95
... evidence of my own senses . Again , one person believes in the Christian religion , a second believes in the Mahometan , and a third in the Brahmin . Every one believes equally firmly that his own professed re- ligion is the only true ...
... evidence of my own senses . Again , one person believes in the Christian religion , a second believes in the Mahometan , and a third in the Brahmin . Every one believes equally firmly that his own professed re- ligion is the only true ...
Page 96
... evidence of the senses can only lead to a belief . Facts must be considered as past , present , and future . Some facts are immutable , and eternal , for any thing we know ; thus , fire is always hot , the globe always moves on its axis ...
... evidence of the senses can only lead to a belief . Facts must be considered as past , present , and future . Some facts are immutable , and eternal , for any thing we know ; thus , fire is always hot , the globe always moves on its axis ...
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... evidence of his senses respecting the thing in question . It is generally supposed that self - evident truth is intuitive , because it is the result of an internal proof ; for instance , it is self - evident that two and two must make ...
... evidence of his senses respecting the thing in question . It is generally supposed that self - evident truth is intuitive , because it is the result of an internal proof ; for instance , it is self - evident that two and two must make ...
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Page 13 - And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
Page 355 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Page 163 - In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old : We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.
Page 414 - Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my latter end be like his.
Page 41 - But the Imagination is conscious of an indestructible dominion ; — • the Soul may fall away from it, not being able to sustain its grandeur ; but, if once felt and acknowledged, by no act of any other faculty of the mind can it be relaxed, impaired, or diminished. — Fancy is given to quicken and to beguile the temporal part of our nature, Imagination to incite and to support the eternal.
Page 431 - Every one knew how laborious the usual method is of attaining to arts and sciences ; whereas, by his contrivance, the most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, may write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, law, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.
Page 28 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Page 287 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Page 49 - But because the spirit of man cannot demean itself lively in this body without some recreating intermission of labour and serious things, it were happy for the commonwealth...
Page 431 - The pupils at his command took each of them hold of an iron handle, whereof there were forty fixed round the edges of the frame ; and giving them a sudden turn, the whole disposition of the words was entirely changed. He then commanded...