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Pagina 10
... and of the imperfection of our knowledge of the Supreme Being , animated him
from his earliest youth to his grave , and afforded him an uninterrupted serenity of
mind frequently suffusing his countenance with a glow of heavenly beauty .
... and of the imperfection of our knowledge of the Supreme Being , animated him
from his earliest youth to his grave , and afforded him an uninterrupted serenity of
mind frequently suffusing his countenance with a glow of heavenly beauty .
Pagina 214
In running the mind along the numerous list of sincere and devout christians , I
cannot help lamenting that Newton had not lived to this day , to have had his
shallowness filled up with this new flood of light . But the subject is too awful for
irony .
In running the mind along the numerous list of sincere and devout christians , I
cannot help lamenting that Newton had not lived to this day , to have had his
shallowness filled up with this new flood of light . But the subject is too awful for
irony .
Pagina 367
Though his name is concealed , his merit is very conspicuous in this composition
, which though written in a strain of peculiar simplicity , has for its vital principle ,
pure and practical philosophy My mind to me a kingdom is , Such perfect joy ...
Though his name is concealed , his merit is very conspicuous in this composition
, which though written in a strain of peculiar simplicity , has for its vital principle ,
pure and practical philosophy My mind to me a kingdom is , Such perfect joy ...
Pagina 493
Hence , as mind is the spring of all power , genius is the inpulse which directs it to
the end ; and whatever object judgment may fix upon , or accident point out , for
the exercise of its faculties , the perfect completion of the object will attend the ...
Hence , as mind is the spring of all power , genius is the inpulse which directs it to
the end ; and whatever object judgment may fix upon , or accident point out , for
the exercise of its faculties , the perfect completion of the object will attend the ...
Pagina 496
It is in this particular that we first perceive the systems of that driveling spirit ,
which incarcerates their minds to a mere ... is to be added in this instance , the
total absence of any primary idea , by which they might have some hold of the
mind .
It is in this particular that we first perceive the systems of that driveling spirit ,
which incarcerates their minds to a mere ... is to be added in this instance , the
total absence of any primary idea , by which they might have some hold of the
mind .
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