The Popular Science Monthly, 12. köideD. Appleton, 1878 |
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... effect of experience is continually to contract our hopes and aspirations . Yet a lifetime of the application of this corrective does not usually eradicate our sanguine disposition . Where hope is unchecked by any experience , it is ...
... effect of experience is continually to contract our hopes and aspirations . Yet a lifetime of the application of this corrective does not usually eradicate our sanguine disposition . Where hope is unchecked by any experience , it is ...
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... effect . Nor must we overlook a third point of difference . Doubt is an un- easy and dissatisfied state from which ... effects occasionally produced by the interference of other impulses . Thus , both doubt and belief have positive ...
... effect . Nor must we overlook a third point of difference . Doubt is an un- easy and dissatisfied state from which ... effects occasionally produced by the interference of other impulses . Thus , both doubt and belief have positive ...
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Thus , both doubt and belief have positive effects upon us , though very different ones . Belief does not make us ... effect of this sort , but stim- ulates us to action until it is destroyed . This reminds us of the irri- tation of a ...
Thus , both doubt and belief have positive effects upon us , though very different ones . Belief does not make us ... effect of this sort , but stim- ulates us to action until it is destroyed . This reminds us of the irri- tation of a ...
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... effect of some casual circumstances , only magnifies that of others . This method , therefore , does not differ in a very essential way from that of authority . The government may not have lifted its finger to influ- ence my convictions ...
... effect of some casual circumstances , only magnifies that of others . This method , therefore , does not differ in a very essential way from that of authority . The government may not have lifted its finger to influ- ence my convictions ...
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... effect that , as Minerva sprang , mature in mind , in full stature of body , and completely armed , from the head of Jupiter , so the steam - engine came forth , perfect at its birth , from the brain of James Watt . But we shall see ...
... effect that , as Minerva sprang , mature in mind , in full stature of body , and completely armed , from the head of Jupiter , so the steam - engine came forth , perfect at its birth , from the brain of James Watt . But we shall see ...
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Page 215 - It is hardly necessary to add that anything which any insulated body or system of bodies can continue to furnish without limitation cannot possibly be a material substance ; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner in which heat was excited and communicated in these experiments except it be motion.
Page 656 - If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb...
Page 655 - Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. 28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you : I am the LORD.
Page 642 - And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel. And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days...
Page 643 - And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me.
Page 442 - MR. ROBERT B. CARTER, MRCS ON THE INFLUENCE OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN PREVENTING DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.
Page 291 - The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.
Page 190 - Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
Page 656 - And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps...
Page 574 - Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not...