Lay Sermons, Addresses, and ReviewsMacmillan and Company, 1870 - 378 pages |
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... known and embraced as now they are ; with other things appertaining to what hath been called the New Philosophy , which , from the times of Galileo at Florence , and Sir Francis Bacon ( Lord Verulam ) in England , hath been much ...
... known and embraced as now they are ; with other things appertaining to what hath been called the New Philosophy , which , from the times of Galileo at Florence , and Sir Francis Bacon ( Lord Verulam ) in England , hath been much ...
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... known , or ever seems to have been known , but matter and force , operating according to rigid rules ; which leads us to contemplate phenomena the very nature of which demonstrates that they must have had a beginning , and that they ...
... known , or ever seems to have been known , but matter and force , operating according to rigid rules ; which leads us to contemplate phenomena the very nature of which demonstrates that they must have had a beginning , and that they ...
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... known one such heretic go so far as to lay his hands upon the ark itself , so to speak , and to defend the startling paradox that , even in physical beauty , man is the superior . He admitted , indeed , that there was a brief period of ...
... known one such heretic go so far as to lay his hands upon the ark itself , so to speak , and to defend the startling paradox that , even in physical beauty , man is the superior . He admitted , indeed , that there was a brief period of ...
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... known to these two great nations of antiquity . Now , do not expect me to depreciate the earnest and enlightened pursuit of classical learning . I have not the least desire to speak ill of such occupations , nor any sympathy with those ...
... known to these two great nations of antiquity . Now , do not expect me to depreciate the earnest and enlightened pursuit of classical learning . I have not the least desire to speak ill of such occupations , nor any sympathy with those ...
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... known and revered throughout the civilized world ; and their living example infects him with a noble ambition , and a love for the spirit of work . The Germans dominate the intellectual world by virtue of the same simple secret as that ...
... known and revered throughout the civilized world ; and their living example infects him with a noble ambition , and a love for the spirit of work . The Germans dominate the intellectual world by virtue of the same simple secret as that ...
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