A philosophical dictionary, from the Fr. [by J.G. Gurton].1824 |
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... reason just as correctly as all the ancients , when they applied that term to the atmosphere ; which , as M. de Fontenelle has well observed , in his " Plu- rality of Worlds , " is the down of our ball . * Lactantius , book iii . chap ...
... reason just as correctly as all the ancients , when they applied that term to the atmosphere ; which , as M. de Fontenelle has well observed , in his " Plu- rality of Worlds , " is the down of our ball . * Lactantius , book iii . chap ...
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... reasons still more philosophi- cally than all those I have mentioned . * " He who fears death , fears either to be deprived of all senses , or to experience other sensations . But , if you no longer retain your own senses , you will be ...
... reasons still more philosophi- cally than all those I have mentioned . * " He who fears death , fears either to be deprived of all senses , or to experience other sensations . But , if you no longer retain your own senses , you will be ...
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... reason , has also possessed the right of reproving all who were of a different opinion from her own . On the other side , the Greek church had the same right ; accordingly , it reproved the Romans when they chose a different opinion ...
... reason , has also possessed the right of reproving all who were of a different opinion from her own . On the other side , the Greek church had the same right ; accordingly , it reproved the Romans when they chose a different opinion ...
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... reason , it would seem that of so many opinions , on so many arricles , there would always exist one which must prevail , which was the orthodox , " the right of teaching . " The other societies , besides the really or- thodox , soon ...
... reason , it would seem that of so many opinions , on so many arricles , there would always exist one which must prevail , which was the orthodox , " the right of teaching . " The other societies , besides the really or- thodox , soon ...
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... reason why Claude , bishop of Turin , preserved in the ninth century all the usages and dogmas received in the seventh and eighth , from the country of the Allobroges , as far as the Elbe and the Danube . These dogmas and usages became ...
... reason why Claude , bishop of Turin , preserved in the ninth century all the usages and dogmas received in the seventh and eighth , from the country of the Allobroges , as far as the Elbe and the Danube . These dogmas and usages became ...
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Popular passages
Page 162 - And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.
Page 111 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell : but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Page 23 - And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off : it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched : 44 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Page 162 - Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not.
Page 22 - For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And shall burn unto the lowest hell, And shall consume the earth with her increase, And set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Page 22 - And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
Page 127 - We repeat there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.
Page 21 - They have moved me to Jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Page 244 - Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.