Lectures on the Atheistic Controversy: Delivered in the Months of February and March, 1834, at Sion Chapel, Bradford, Yorkshire. Forming the First Part of a Course of Lectures on InfidelityHilliard, Gray, 1835 - 350 pages |
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... ideas and opinions on all sub- jects , the thinking faculty has received a most astonish- ing impulse , and the spirit of inquiry has gone forth through all the length and breadth of the land . Every thing now must be subject to a ...
... ideas and opinions on all sub- jects , the thinking faculty has received a most astonish- ing impulse , and the spirit of inquiry has gone forth through all the length and breadth of the land . Every thing now must be subject to a ...
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... idea of a Creator as a " chimera , " a " fancy , " & c . and , with much ingenious sophistry , endeavors to prove that an all - creating intel- ligence is a thing impossible and absurd , thus writes : " If it be inquired how or for why ...
... idea of a Creator as a " chimera , " a " fancy , " & c . and , with much ingenious sophistry , endeavors to prove that an all - creating intel- ligence is a thing impossible and absurd , thus writes : " If it be inquired how or for why ...
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... idea of a divine being having gained possession of the mind , it was by ignorance , passion , fancy , moulded into strange shapes and uncouth forms . A single object , and that the most regular and perfect , may be multiplied , distort ...
... idea of a divine being having gained possession of the mind , it was by ignorance , passion , fancy , moulded into strange shapes and uncouth forms . A single object , and that the most regular and perfect , may be multiplied , distort ...
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... idea , which , from the earliest ages , and in every part of the world , has taken possession of his mind . Now , how is this belief of all ages and all countries to be accounted for ? We find it in times and places the most remote ; in ...
... idea , which , from the earliest ages , and in every part of the world , has taken possession of his mind . Now , how is this belief of all ages and all countries to be accounted for ? We find it in times and places the most remote ; in ...
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... idea was handed down by tradition from father to son , from time imme- morial , still the question arises , how did the tradition originate ? If it be an idea so chimerical and repug- nant to reason as the advocates of this philosophy ...
... idea was handed down by tradition from father to son , from time imme- morial , still the question arises , how did the tradition originate ? If it be an idea so chimerical and repug- nant to reason as the advocates of this philosophy ...
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Page 170 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Page 170 - Tunes her nocturnal note: thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 239 - Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence ? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there : if I make my bed in hell, behold! thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea : Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
Page 63 - Mind, mind alone, (bear witness, Earth and Heaven !) The living fountains in itself contains Of beauteous and sublime : here, hand in hand, Sit paramount the Graces ; here enthroned, Celestial Venus, with divinest airs, Invites the soul to never-fading joy.
Page 9 - The kings of the earth stand up, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord, and against his Anointed : 3 Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
Page 90 - They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
Page 249 - Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
Page 90 - I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Page 10 - Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him, let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way, shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Page 219 - The intermixture of distinct species is guarded against by the aversion of the individuals composing them to sexual union, or by the sterility of the mule offspring. It does not appear that true hybrid races have ever been perpetuated for several generations, even by the assistance of man; for the cases usually cited relate to the crossing of mules with individuals of pure species, and not to the intermixture of hybrid with hybrid.