Brownson's Quarterly Review, Volume 4Orestes Augustus Brownson Benjamin H. Greene, 1850 |
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... principles appear to be enunciated , and there is nothing in the Autobiography itself to lead one to regard it as ... principle , toward something we have not as yet . " When we do not understand our desire , we are conscious of ...
... principles appear to be enunciated , and there is nothing in the Autobiography itself to lead one to regard it as ... principle , toward something we have not as yet . " When we do not understand our desire , we are conscious of ...
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... principles their eternal and necessary conse- quences . A priori reasoning is simply analysis , and gives only what is already contained in the matter analyzed ; for nothing can be in the conclusion not contained in the premises . If ...
... principles their eternal and necessary conse- quences . A priori reasoning is simply analysis , and gives only what is already contained in the matter analyzed ; for nothing can be in the conclusion not contained in the premises . If ...
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... principles of philosophy , is more specious than solid . The author has evidently thought long and hard to obtain his con- clusion , but that conclusion rests on the supposition , that the soul which acts is identically the uncreated ...
... principles of philosophy , is more specious than solid . The author has evidently thought long and hard to obtain his con- clusion , but that conclusion rests on the supposition , that the soul which acts is identically the uncreated ...
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... principles ; that it is by method we obtain the principles of philosophy , and not that it is the principles that precede and determine the method . He has been misled by Descartes , who makes the consideration of method precede that of ...
... principles ; that it is by method we obtain the principles of philosophy , and not that it is the principles that precede and determine the method . He has been misled by Descartes , who makes the consideration of method precede that of ...
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... principles , which method is subsequently to apply . The principles are not and cannot be sought , for the mind without them is incapable of action , and therefore incapable of seeking . Hence it is never we who seek or who find them ...
... principles , which method is subsequently to apply . The principles are not and cannot be sought , for the mind without them is incapable of action , and therefore incapable of seeking . Hence it is never we who seek or who find them ...
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Page 100 - Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee, and deify his power, Who from the terror of this arm so late Doubted his empire, — that were low indeed ! That were an ignominy...
Page 98 - Seek ye therefore first the Kingdom of God and His justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.
Page 443 - I have loved justice, and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile...
Page 430 - If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me,
Page 445 - And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient, being filled with all unrighteousness...
Page 507 - ... territory or dominions of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people with whom the United States are at peace, shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and shall be fined not exceeding three thousand dollars, and imprisoned not more than three years.
Page 68 - and died away into silence. Then he beheld, in a dream, once more the home of his childhood ; Green Acadian meadows, with sylvan rivers among them, Village, and mountain, and woodlands ; and, walking under their shadow, As in the days of her youth, Evangeline rose in his vision. Tears came into his eyes ; and as slowly he lifted his eyelids, Vanished the vision away, but Evangeline knelt by his bedside. Vainly he strove to whisper her name, for the accents unuttered Died on his lips, and their motion...
Page 68 - Darkness of slumber and death, forever sinking and sinking. Then through those realms of shade, in multiplied reverberations, Heard he that cry of pain, and through the hush that succeeded Whispered a gentle voice, in accents tender and saint-like, '• Gabriel ! O my beloved !
Page 59 - Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside, Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses I Sweet was her breath as the breath of kine that feed in the meadows.
Page 68 - All was ended now, the hope, and the fear, and the sorrow, All the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience! And, as she pressed once more the lifeless head to her bosom, Meekly she bowed her own, and murmured, "Father, I thank thee!