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... knowledge , as well physical as meta . physical . The title , however , is more particularly given to him who looks for exact notions and positive know- ledge , founded on principles dependent on the relations between cause and effect ...
... knowledge , as well physical as meta . physical . The title , however , is more particularly given to him who looks for exact notions and positive know- ledge , founded on principles dependent on the relations between cause and effect ...
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... knowledge was confined to priesthood , and the vulgar relied on their sayings and interpretations of nature and heaven . The whole tendency of barbaric philosophy , though employed upon important subjects , both divine and human , was ...
... knowledge was confined to priesthood , and the vulgar relied on their sayings and interpretations of nature and heaven . The whole tendency of barbaric philosophy , though employed upon important subjects , both divine and human , was ...
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... knowledge by its utility ; and recommended the study of astronomy , geometry and other sciences only as far as they admit of a practical application to the purposes of human life . His great object was to lead GENERAL VIEW OF MENTAL ...
... knowledge by its utility ; and recommended the study of astronomy , geometry and other sciences only as far as they admit of a practical application to the purposes of human life . His great object was to lead GENERAL VIEW OF MENTAL ...
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... knowledge . Plato remembered the inconveniences which several of his pre- decessors among the Greeks had brought upon themselves by an undisguised declaration of their opinions . On the other hand he knew how successfully the Egyptians ...
... knowledge . Plato remembered the inconveniences which several of his pre- decessors among the Greeks had brought upon themselves by an undisguised declaration of their opinions . On the other hand he knew how successfully the Egyptians ...
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... knowledge of the first good - God ; and the end of knowing God , in endeavoring to render men as like to God as the condition of human nature will permit . This likeness consists in prudence , justice , sanctity and temperance . To ...
... knowledge of the first good - God ; and the end of knowing God , in endeavoring to render men as like to God as the condition of human nature will permit . This likeness consists in prudence , justice , sanctity and temperance . To ...
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Page 139 - All things come alike to all : there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked ; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not : as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Page 148 - God that made the world, and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands...
Page 172 - For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs. Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.
Page 61 - For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.
Page 150 - If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
Page 172 - He that regardeth the day regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it.
Page 139 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Page 117 - And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 3° Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called : and whom he called, them he also justified : and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
Page 146 - That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
Page 123 - ... doing this, we naturally and unavoidably approve some actions, under the peculiar view of their being virtuous and of good desert; and disapprove" others, as vicious and of ill desert.