Principia: A Series of Essays on the Principles of Evil Manifesting Themselves in These Last Times in Religion, Philosophy, and PoliticsJ. Burns, 1843 - 431 pages |
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... Minds and Tastes formed upon the Classics - Our Habits Heathen - The Classics corrupt us - Opinion of Jose- phus - Of Jones of Nayland - A better Literature wanted- The Asiatics - European Civilization - Chinese Civilization- Jewish ...
... Minds and Tastes formed upon the Classics - Our Habits Heathen - The Classics corrupt us - Opinion of Jose- phus - Of Jones of Nayland - A better Literature wanted- The Asiatics - European Civilization - Chinese Civilization- Jewish ...
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... mind over matter , the exalta- tion of the human mind , the triumph of intellect , —and say , is not all this perfect civilization ! But there are other points which philosophic and thinking men will approve even more highly than these ...
... mind over matter , the exalta- tion of the human mind , the triumph of intellect , —and say , is not all this perfect civilization ! But there are other points which philosophic and thinking men will approve even more highly than these ...
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... mind from the dogmas of sects , and the authoritative opinions of churches in matters of religion , which can never attain to its power and perfection except under the perfect freedom and unfettered exalta- tion of the human mind and ...
... mind from the dogmas of sects , and the authoritative opinions of churches in matters of religion , which can never attain to its power and perfection except under the perfect freedom and unfettered exalta- tion of the human mind and ...
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... mind should not be able to perceive its own errors and de- ficiencies . Individual minds may sometimes distrust their own views and opinions , by collision and com- parison with other opinions and minds , exercising an antagonist ...
... mind should not be able to perceive its own errors and de- ficiencies . Individual minds may sometimes distrust their own views and opinions , by collision and com- parison with other opinions and minds , exercising an antagonist ...
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... mind , travelling onward , on- ward , with the current of fashion and opinion : ever thought the best , while always shifting ; and all its greater and more permanent changes unperceived by those who look not out of the mist of doubt ...
... mind , travelling onward , on- ward , with the current of fashion and opinion : ever thought the best , while always shifting ; and all its greater and more permanent changes unperceived by those who look not out of the mist of doubt ...
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Page 286 - Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 340 - Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
Page 423 - The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble.
Page 335 - And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: 2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
Page 323 - In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God. They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
Page 342 - And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Page 158 - And Enoch also the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying ; Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them, of all their ungodly deeds, which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Page 155 - For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
Page 338 - But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
Page 338 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered ; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.