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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... laws and economy of nature is the great source of the absurd opinions to which I have adverted , -a position which , I presume , will not be called in question . For such opinions cannot be deduced from an atten- tive survey of the ...
... laws and economy of nature is the great source of the absurd opinions to which I have adverted , -a position which , I presume , will not be called in question . For such opinions cannot be deduced from an atten- tive survey of the ...
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... laws of their opera- tion , would have pointed out the road to safety . This leads me to the illustration of another ad- vantage which would be derived from a general diffusion of knowledge , -namely , That it would tend to prevent many ...
... laws of their opera- tion , would have pointed out the road to safety . This leads me to the illustration of another ad- vantage which would be derived from a general diffusion of knowledge , -namely , That it would tend to prevent many ...
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... laws which regulate its movements , been gene- rally known . Seldom a year passes but we are informed by the public prints of some person or other having been killed by lightning , when taking shelter under a large tree , -of whole ...
... laws which regulate its movements , been gene- rally known . Seldom a year passes but we are informed by the public prints of some person or other having been killed by lightning , when taking shelter under a large tree , -of whole ...
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... laws of the planetary motions . Many important scientific facts require only a certain combination of circumstances to bring them to the view of any common observer . To discover the phases of the planet Venus , the satellites of ...
... laws of the planetary motions . Many important scientific facts require only a certain combination of circumstances to bring them to the view of any common observer . To discover the phases of the planet Venus , the satellites of ...
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... laws , the man of genius frequently shuts himself up in his closet , and from a few scattered fragments of nature , constructs , in his imagination , a splendid theory , which makes a noise and a blaze for a little , like an ...
... laws , the man of genius frequently shuts himself up in his closet , and from a few scattered fragments of nature , constructs , in his imagination , a splendid theory , which makes a noise and a blaze for a little , like an ...
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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.