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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... passing around them , but on all ques- tions of trade , politics , or religion , they generally took a decided part , and , whether right or wrong , pursued their object with determination and spirit . While , therefore , he beheld with ...
... passing around them , but on all ques- tions of trade , politics , or religion , they generally took a decided part , and , whether right or wrong , pursued their object with determination and spirit . While , therefore , he beheld with ...
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... Pass- ing over the inaccuracy of the author as to historical fact , it may again be replied , that further knowledge of nature corrected this error , while increasing knowledge only strengthened the belief of a Supreme Being . But how ...
... Pass- ing over the inaccuracy of the author as to historical fact , it may again be replied , that further knowledge of nature corrected this error , while increasing knowledge only strengthened the belief of a Supreme Being . But how ...
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... pass so marvellously , that the soils , the minerals , and the plants ; —the air , the water , the sea , the tides , the dews , and rains ; -that the days , the nights , the sum- mers , and the winters , are just what a wise and power ...
... pass so marvellously , that the soils , the minerals , and the plants ; —the air , the water , the sea , the tides , the dews , and rains ; -that the days , the nights , the sum- mers , and the winters , are just what a wise and power ...
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... pass- iveness , its limited existence . The difficulty , then , is thrown pack on the atheistic scheme , the force of this argument for the eternity of matter vanishes , and it leaves the posi- tion which it was intended to strengthen ...
... pass- iveness , its limited existence . The difficulty , then , is thrown pack on the atheistic scheme , the force of this argument for the eternity of matter vanishes , and it leaves the posi- tion which it was intended to strengthen ...
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... pass , we shall discover that it is to motion , and mo- tion only , that is to be ascribed all the changes , all the combinations , all the forms , in short , all the various modifications of matter . That it is by motion every- thing ...
... pass , we shall discover that it is to motion , and mo- tion only , that is to be ascribed all the changes , all the combinations , all the forms , in short , all the various modifications of matter . That it is by motion every- thing ...
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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.