Lay Sermons, Addresses, and ReviewsMacmillan and Company, 1870 - 378 pages |
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... lead inflammable and explosive gases into every corner of our streets and houses , we never allow even a street to burn down . And if he asked how this had come about , we should have to explain that the improvement of natural knowledge ...
... lead inflammable and explosive gases into every corner of our streets and houses , we never allow even a street to burn down . And if he asked how this had come about , we should have to explain that the improvement of natural knowledge ...
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... lead him to think that Englishmen of the nineteenth century are purer in life , or more fer- vent in religious faith , than the generation which could produce a Boyle , an Evelyn , and a Milton . He might find the mud of society at the ...
... lead him to think that Englishmen of the nineteenth century are purer in life , or more fer- vent in religious faith , than the generation which could produce a Boyle , an Evelyn , and a Milton . He might find the mud of society at the ...
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... leads us to contemplate phenomena the very nature of which demonstrates that they must have had a beginning , and that they must have an end , but the very nature of which also proves that the beginning was , to our concep- tions of ...
... leads us to contemplate phenomena the very nature of which demonstrates that they must have had a beginning , and that they must have an end , but the very nature of which also proves that the beginning was , to our concep- tions of ...
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... lead me to think that the Rector of Lincoln College and the Commissioners cannot be far wrong . I believe there can be no doubt that the foreigner who should wish to become acquainted with the scientific , or the literary , activity of ...
... lead me to think that the Rector of Lincoln College and the Commissioners cannot be far wrong . I believe there can be no doubt that the foreigner who should wish to become acquainted with the scientific , or the literary , activity of ...
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... leads to perfection in such elegancies is alone to be called culture ; while the facts of history , the process of thought , the conditions of moral and social existence , and the laws of physical nature , are left to be dealt with as ...
... leads to perfection in such elegancies is alone to be called culture ; while the facts of history , the process of thought , the conditions of moral and social existence , and the laws of physical nature , are left to be dealt with as ...
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