Thoughts on Religion and Other Important Subjects: Recently Translated from the French of Blaise Pascal, with Memoirs of His Life and Writings by the Translator [Thomas Chevalier].Samuel Bagster, 1806 - 384 pages |
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... common at his age . His mother having died in 1626 , his father , who was an excellent scholar and an able mathematician , and who lived in greatest learning and science at that time in France , habits of intimacy with several persons ...
... common at his age . His mother having died in 1626 , his father , who was an excellent scholar and an able mathematician , and who lived in greatest learning and science at that time in France , habits of intimacy with several persons ...
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... meant to live entirely employed in the study of religion , and in the practices of devotion , every Christian , in proportion to his oppor- tunities and self - denial , and charity : Duties common to LIFE OF PASCAL . 29.
... meant to live entirely employed in the study of religion , and in the practices of devotion , every Christian , in proportion to his oppor- tunities and self - denial , and charity : Duties common to LIFE OF PASCAL . 29.
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... common , as his senti- ments respecting diet . He would therefore have none but the plainest furniture in his house , and had all the tapestry stripped off from his rooms . He strongly censured persons professing Christianity for ...
... common , as his senti- ments respecting diet . He would therefore have none but the plainest furniture in his house , and had all the tapestry stripped off from his rooms . He strongly censured persons professing Christianity for ...
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... common manifes- tations of affection and endearment between re- latives , appear to have been carried to an ex- treme . He sometimes even censured Madame Perier for her kind attentions to himself : And she says she used to complain of ...
... common manifes- tations of affection and endearment between re- latives , appear to have been carried to an ex- treme . He sometimes even censured Madame Perier for her kind attentions to himself : And she says she used to complain of ...
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... common conversation , in which levity and jesting were particularly disgusting to his mind , and the least indelicate allusion highly offended him . He often ex- pressed thankfulness to God , that his bad state of health , and the ...
... common conversation , in which levity and jesting were particularly disgusting to his mind , and the least indelicate allusion highly offended him . He often ex- pressed thankfulness to God , that his bad state of health , and the ...
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able afflictions afterward Antichrist Apostles appear Auvergne believe BLAISE PASCAL blessings blind body capable cause Chimæra Christians church circumcision concealed concupiscence consider consolation contrary corruption creatures Cycloid death Deism demonstrated discern divine doctrine earth effect endeavour enemies eternal evident evil faith false father feel figure foretold Gentiles geometricians give glory grace happiness heart holy Hunc incapable infinite Jansenists Jesuits Jesus Christ Jews judge king knowledge Letters ligion live Lord mankind means mercy Messiah mind miracles miracles of Jesus misery Moses nature ness never object obscure opinion ourselves Pagans Pascal passions Perier persons pleasure Port-Royal possess principles proofs prophecies prophets Provincial Letters racter reason received religion render respect sacrifice scripture seek sense sins sion soul speak spirit subsist suffer thee thine things thou hast thought tion true truth understanding vanity Voltaire whole
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Page 262 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Page 264 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Page 205 - They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God ; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities : and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people ; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Page 285 - I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
Page 204 - And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
Page 204 - Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer ; thy name is from everlasting.
Page 209 - Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them, for God hath showed it unto them. For the invisible things of him, from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his Eternal Power and God-head, so that they are without excuse...
Page 205 - I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live...
Page 334 - He saith, sacrifice and offering Thou wouldest not, but a body hast Thou prepared Me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin Thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the Book it is written of me,) to do Thy will, O God.
Page 204 - Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and He chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day. Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.