On Man: His Motives, Their Rise, Operations, Opposition, and Results, Volume 1Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1833 |
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... examination which is required in such a disquisition of their separate qualities and powers , but a further confirmation of the fact from the outward objects and entia rationis , or rational notices , which are adapted to give ...
... examination which is required in such a disquisition of their separate qualities and powers , but a further confirmation of the fact from the outward objects and entia rationis , or rational notices , which are adapted to give ...
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... examination , to be closely connected with our mental and bodily qua- lities , and will admit of a twofold division correspond- ing thereto . For we can know little of the mind , if we have not some general acquaintance with the ...
... examination , to be closely connected with our mental and bodily qua- lities , and will admit of a twofold division correspond- ing thereto . For we can know little of the mind , if we have not some general acquaintance with the ...
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... examination of our mental qualities with some degree of order — On perception . I shall first advert to perception , that quality by which all our first elements of knowledge are con- veyed to us ; and which may be considered as a sort ...
... examination of our mental qualities with some degree of order — On perception . I shall first advert to perception , that quality by which all our first elements of knowledge are con- veyed to us ; and which may be considered as a sort ...
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... examination and investigation . It is a source of satisfaction to observe how curiously and ingeniously the nest of the bird and the honeycomb of the bee are constructed . The cell of the honeycomb , more especially , is formed on the ...
... examination and investigation . It is a source of satisfaction to observe how curiously and ingeniously the nest of the bird and the honeycomb of the bee are constructed . The cell of the honeycomb , more especially , is formed on the ...
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... is generally ad- mitted , then , that desire promotes attention , and aids us and encourages us to make ourselves ac- quainted with the subject of our examination . Whether desire can precede attention in all cases , and 50.
... is generally ad- mitted , then , that desire promotes attention , and aids us and encourages us to make ourselves ac- quainted with the subject of our examination . Whether desire can precede attention in all cases , and 50.
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Page 312 - Go and show John again those things which ye do hear and see : The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the Gospel preached to them.
Page 353 - Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets; I am not come to destroy but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Page 352 - For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house. For every house is builded by some man ; but he that built all things is God.
Page 320 - For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Page 333 - The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people ; for ye were the fewest of all people : but because the Lord loved you...
Page iii - Either make the tree good and his fruit good, or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by his fruit. O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
Page 352 - Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Page 312 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Page 360 - If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works : that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
Page 353 - For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof. For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did ; by the which we draw nigh unto God.