On the improvement of society by the diffusion of knowledge. The philosophy of a future state. The philosophy of religion. On the mental illumination and moral improvement of mankind. An essay on the sin and evils of covetousnessA. C. Goodman, 1850 |
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... idea , for example , is presented to the view by such an object as the planet Jupi- ter , -a globe fourteen hundred times larger than the world in which we dwell , and whose surface would contain a population a hundred times more ...
... idea , for example , is presented to the view by such an object as the planet Jupi- ter , -a globe fourteen hundred times larger than the world in which we dwell , and whose surface would contain a population a hundred times more ...
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... idea , when its magnitude and motions are investigated , what an astonish- ing idea is presented to the mind when it contem- plates the size and splendour of the sun , -a body which would contain within its bowels nine hun- dred globes ...
... idea , when its magnitude and motions are investigated , what an astonish- ing idea is presented to the mind when it contem- plates the size and splendour of the sun , -a body which would contain within its bowels nine hun- dred globes ...
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... idea of penetrating through them absurd . - The history of mining speculations is full of similar cases , where a very moderate acquaintance with the usual order of nature , to say nothing of theoretical views , would have saved many a ...
... idea of penetrating through them absurd . - The history of mining speculations is full of similar cases , where a very moderate acquaintance with the usual order of nature , to say nothing of theoretical views , would have saved many a ...
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... idea of the power of the Deity in causing such an immense number of orbs to revolve around our world with so prodi- gious a velocity as behoved to take place , were the earth in reality a quiescent body in the centre of the universe ...
... idea of the power of the Deity in causing such an immense number of orbs to revolve around our world with so prodi- gious a velocity as behoved to take place , were the earth in reality a quiescent body in the centre of the universe ...
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... idea existing in the Creating Mind , of which it is a copy . The formation of a second or a third object exactly resembling the first , would barely exhibit the same ideas a second or a third time , without disclosing any thing new ...
... idea existing in the Creating Mind , of which it is a copy . The formation of a second or a third object exactly resembling the first , would barely exhibit the same ideas a second or a third time , without disclosing any thing new ...
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Page 103 - Let all the earth fear the Lord : let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
Page 91 - And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
Page 78 - In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.
Page 78 - How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God ! How great is the sum of them ! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I awake, I am still with thee.
Page 79 - Put on, therefore, as the elect of God. holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering, forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any; even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Page 71 - For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: And the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: For, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
Page 32 - ... hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth...
Page 78 - A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
Page 133 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Page 109 - Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.