An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of AssentBurns, Oates, & Company, 1870 - 485 pages |
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abstract act of assent act of inference action admit affections antecedent argument Athanasian Creed believe called categorical proposition Catholic certainly certitude character Christ Christianity Church common conclusion conscience consider conviction course Creed distinct Divine doctrine dogma doubt duty evidence exercise experience external fact faculty faith Father feel give given hold Holy Ghost human Illative Sense imagination implies impressions individual infallible inquiry instance instinct intellectual Jews Judaism judgment knowledge living logical lucern means medicago sativa mental mind mystery Natural Religion never notional assent object opinion ourselves particular phenomena philosophical phronesis Pope Pius IV premisses present principle probability profession proof proposition Protestantism question ratiocination real apprehension real assent reason religious revelation rience rule Scripture Sir George Lewis speak subject-matter syllogism Tacitus teaching testimony theology things thought tion true truth uncon whole words
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Page 162 - ... the three angles of a triangle are together equal to two right angles, although it is not known to all.
Page 75 - Let us consider, too, how differently young and old are affected by the words of some classic author, such as Homer or Horace. Passages, which to a boy are but rhetorical commonplaces, neither better nor worse than a hundred others which any clever writer might supply, which he gets by heart and thinks very fine, and imitates, as he thinks, successfully, in his own flowing versification...
Page 438 - Micah,* that out of Judah should come the Ruler. Tacitus, another historian, asserts,' that a great many were possessed with a persuasion, that it was contained in the ancient books of the priests, that, at that very time, the East should prevail, and that they who should govern the world, were to come out of Judea.
Page 410 - We are of God: he that knoweth God, heareth us; he that is not of God, heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
Page 281 - It is the cumulation of probabilities, independent of each other, arising out of the nature and circumstances of the particular case which is under review ; probabilities too fine to avail separately, too subtle and circuitous to be convertible into syllogisms, too numerous and various for such conversion, even were they convertible.
Page 89 - The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us.
Page 142 - Before He was begotten He was not," and that, "He came into being from what-is-not," or those that allege that the Son of God is "Of another substance or essence," or "created," or "changeable" or "alterable," these the Catholic and Apostolic Church anathematizes.
Page 155 - He that would seriously set upon the search of truth, ought in the first place to prepare his mind with a love of it; for he that loves it not, will not take much pains to get it, nor be much concerned when he misses it.
Page 82 - ... there's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.
Page 154 - These probabilities rise so near to certainty, that they govern our thoughts as absolutely, and influence all our actions as fully, as the most evident demonstration ; and, in what concerns us, we make little or no difference between them and certain knowledge. Our belief thus grounded rises to assurance.