Lay Sermons, Addresses, and ReviewsMacmillan and Company, 1870 - 378 pages |
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... earth , made possible by the steam pump , gives rise to an amount of wealth to which the millions lost in old London are but as an old song . But spinning jenny and steam pump are , after all , but toys , possessing an accidental value ...
... earth , made possible by the steam pump , gives rise to an amount of wealth to which the millions lost in old London are but as an old song . But spinning jenny and steam pump are , after all , but toys , possessing an accidental value ...
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... earth is but an atom among atoms , whirling , no man knows whither , through illimitable space ; which demonstrates that what we call the peace- ful heaven above us , is but that space , filled by an infinitely subtle matter whose ...
... earth is but an atom among atoms , whirling , no man knows whither , through illimitable space ; which demonstrates that what we call the peace- ful heaven above us , is but that space , filled by an infinitely subtle matter whose ...
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... earth no centre of the universe , but an eccentric speck , so the naturalists find man to be no centre of the living world , but one amidst endless modifications of life ; and as the astronomer observes the mark of practically endless ...
... earth no centre of the universe , but an eccentric speck , so the naturalists find man to be no centre of the living world , but one amidst endless modifications of life ; and as the astronomer observes the mark of practically endless ...
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... earth is but an infinitesimal fragment of that part of the universe which can be seen ; and that , nevertheless , its duration is , as compared with our standards of time , infinite . They have further acquired the idea that man is but ...
... earth is but an infinitesimal fragment of that part of the universe which can be seen ; and that , nevertheless , its duration is , as compared with our standards of time , infinite . They have further acquired the idea that man is but ...
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... earth goes round the sun ; that England underwent a great revolution in 1688 , and France another in 1789 ; that there once lived certain notable men called Chaucer , Shakspeare , Milton , Voltaire , Goethe , Schiller . The first might ...
... earth goes round the sun ; that England underwent a great revolution in 1688 , and France another in 1789 ; that there once lived certain notable men called Chaucer , Shakspeare , Milton , Voltaire , Goethe , Schiller . The first might ...
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Page 154 - In itself it is of little moment whether we express the phenomena of matter in terms of spirit, or the phenomena of spirit in terms of matter; matter may be regarded as a form of thought, thought may be regarded as a property of matter ; each statement has a certain relative truth. But with a view to the progress of science the materialistic terminology is in every way to be preferred...
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Page 375 - PREFACE. French (George Russell). — SHAKSPEAREANA GENEALOGICA. 8vo. cloth extra, 15^. Uniform with the "Cambridge Shakespeare." Part I. — Identification of the dramatis personse in the historical plays, from King John to King Henry VIII. ; Notes on Characters in Macbeth and Hamlet ; Persons and Places belonging to Warwickshire alluded to. Part II. — The Shakspeare and Arden families and their connexions, with Tables of descent. The present is the first attempt to give a detailed description,...