Personal and literaryJ. Murray, 1879 |
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... highest authority in matters directly connected with Christianity . But even that authority is not entitled to implicit and blind obedience . Why ? Because the authenticity of those writings is only an historical probability . * " The ...
... highest authority in matters directly connected with Christianity . But even that authority is not entitled to implicit and blind obedience . Why ? Because the authenticity of those writings is only an historical probability . * " The ...
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... highest duty to observe in act , and to maintain in undisputed authority . 31. First , we hold that it is only by a licence of speech that the term knowledge can be applied to any of our human perceptions . For as nothing can in the ...
... highest duty to observe in act , and to maintain in undisputed authority . 31. First , we hold that it is only by a licence of speech that the term knowledge can be applied to any of our human perceptions . For as nothing can in the ...
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... highest degree . Between that point , and the point at which a proposition becomes improbable , and a just understanding inclines to its rejection , an infinity of shades of likelihood intervene . For example : where the exclusion of ...
... highest degree . Between that point , and the point at which a proposition becomes improbable , and a just understanding inclines to its rejection , an infinity of shades of likelihood intervene . For example : where the exclusion of ...
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... highest degree which utterly extinguishes doubt , but in every diversity of degree so long as any appreciable portion of comparative likelihood remains , although many of these degrees may be hampered with very considerable doubt as ...
... highest degree which utterly extinguishes doubt , but in every diversity of degree so long as any appreciable portion of comparative likelihood remains , although many of these degrees may be hampered with very considerable doubt as ...
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... highest degree of intellectual certainty in order to be honestly and obediently received ; and that the very same principles which govern action in common life , cognisable by common sense , are those which , fortified ( we should hold ) ...
... highest degree of intellectual certainty in order to be honestly and obediently received ; and that the very same principles which govern action in common life , cognisable by common sense , are those which , fortified ( we should hold ) ...
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Page 167 - Traitors — and strike him dead, and meet myself Death, or I know not what mysterious doom. And thou remaining here wilt learn the event; But hither shall I never come again, Never lie by thy side; see thee no more — Farewell!
Page 178 - Titanic forces taking birth In divers seasons, divers climes; For we are Ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times.
Page 53 - Full fathom five thy father lies, Of his bones are coral made : Those are pearls that were his eyes, Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea change, Into something rich and strange.
Page 141 - Ah ! when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal Peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
Page 210 - His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain...
Page 210 - If to the city sped, what waits him there? To see profusion that he must not share ; To see ten thousand baneful arts combined To pamper luxury and thin mankind ; To see those joys the sons of Pleasure know Extorted from his fellow-creature's woe.
Page 139 - I seem in star and flower To feel thee some diffusive power, I do not therefore love thee less: My love involves the love before; My love is vaster passion now; Tho' mix'd with God and Nature thou, I seem to love thee more and more.
Page 307 - Of good and evil much they argued then, Of happiness and final misery, Passion and apathy, and glory and shame...
Page 141 - For the peace, that I deem'd no peace, is over and done, And now by the side of the Black and the Baltic deep, And deathful-grinning mouths of the fortress, flames The blood-red blossom of war with a heart of fire.
Page 142 - When a Mammonite mother kills her babe for a burial fee, And Timour-Mammon grins on a pile of children's bones, Is it peace or war ? better, war! loud war by land and by sea, War with a thousand battles, and shaking a hundred thrones.