Miscellanea: Comprising Reviews, Lectures, and Essays, on Historical, Theological, and Miscellaneous Subjects, Volume 2J. Murphy Company, 1894 - American essays |
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Page 383
... truth . True , we have empiricism in every thing ; in medicine , in science , in politics , and even in religion ! The empiric deals not only in quack medicines and in political legerdemain , but also in the once hallowed tenets of a ...
... truth . True , we have empiricism in every thing ; in medicine , in science , in politics , and even in religion ! The empiric deals not only in quack medicines and in political legerdemain , but also in the once hallowed tenets of a ...
Page 386
... truths of religion to the low level of mere earthly knowledge , we think no impartial and philosophic observer of the ... truth . Any other teacher would be wholly incompetent to the task ; because any other might be mistaken and might ...
... truths of religion to the low level of mere earthly knowledge , we think no impartial and philosophic observer of the ... truth . Any other teacher would be wholly incompetent to the task ; because any other might be mistaken and might ...
Page 387
... truth pass through the narrow and shallow basin of their own reason ! They apply the prin- ciples of human science to religion , with as much confidence as they apply algebra to geometry . With them , religion is to be estimated only by ...
... truth pass through the narrow and shallow basin of their own reason ! They apply the prin- ciples of human science to religion , with as much confidence as they apply algebra to geometry . With them , religion is to be estimated only by ...
Page 389
... truths thus extracted ; whereas , the truth is , that he has only succeeded in showing his own inconsistency and absurdity , in the attempt to harmonize contra- dictions . The transcendentalist steps gallantly forth to the rescue of the ...
... truths thus extracted ; whereas , the truth is , that he has only succeeded in showing his own inconsistency and absurdity , in the attempt to harmonize contra- dictions . The transcendentalist steps gallantly forth to the rescue of the ...
Page 390
... truths have the proudly boasting philosophers , who have the hallowed name of liberty forever on their lips , really bequeathed to the world , after all the noise they have made on the subject ? We have already seen what bequest they ...
... truths have the proudly boasting philosophers , who have the hallowed name of liberty forever on their lips , really bequeathed to the world , after all the noise they have made on the subject ? We have already seen what bequest they ...
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Page 567 - Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
Page 517 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 370 - ... it is therefore ordered, that the said Mr. Williams shall depart out of this jurisdiction within six weeks now next ensuing ; which if he neglect to perform, it shall be lawful for the governor and two of the magistrates to send him to some place out of this jurisdiction, not to return any more without license from the court.
Page 517 - ... after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast...
Page 423 - If a brother or sister be naked, and in lack of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled ; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.
Page 486 - Geneva, the seat and centre of Calvinism, the fountain-head from which the pure and living waters of our Scottish Zion flow, the earthly source, the pattern, the Rome of our Presbyterian doctrine and practice, has fallen lower from her own original doctrine and practice than ever Rome fell.
Page 375 - ... dropt sometimes out of the air, before sufficient spectators, into the hands of the afflicted, while the spectres were urging them to subscribe their covenant with death. Moreover, poisons to the standersby wholly...
Page 374 - And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
Page 502 - The school-boy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
Page 418 - This is the stone which was rejected by you the builders, which is become the head of the corner ; neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given to men whereby we must be saved.