Humbugs of New-York: Being a Remonstrance Against Popular Delusion; Whether in Science, Philosophy, Or Religion

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J.S. Taylor, 1838 - 267 pagine
 

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Pagina 152 - rule of practice," which is, "as ye would that others should do unto you, do ye even so to them...
Pagina 250 - Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.
Pagina 145 - ... them to be as wrong as they are charged with being. Whether it is more sinful to dance, when one does it from very joyous ness of spirit, or to be angry because another has danced, is a question which, it seems to me, is not very difficult to decide, especially in the light of that law which says, " He that is angry with his brother without a cause, is a murderer.
Pagina 52 - I was shortly after* wards in that capital, for it had been kept alive by a judicial investigation on a criminal charge preferred against Dr W , the actor in the affair, the great apostle of the doctrine in Prussia, and, moreover, a professor in the university. The unfortunate victim was a young lady of very respectable family. She had been led, by curiosity, to visit the apartments in which the doctor performs the magnetical process on a number of patients, in presence of each other ; and it is...
Pagina 145 - Thou shalt not commit adultery : but I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery already with her in his heart.
Pagina 235 - Christianity, for the creed of both concedes that in every nation and in every church, " he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of Him.
Pagina 238 - God is gathering, and will continue to gather his sons from afar, and his daughters from the ends of the earth...
Pagina 101 - With the same accuracy is the kind of pain to be noted, and he always carefully records the expressions by which the kind of pain is the most strictly designated. All the circumstances under which any complaint arises or disappears, increases or diminishes; whether in motion or at rest, in certain situations and postures, whether by warmth or cold, in the open air or in a room, by light, by noises, by talking or thinking, eating or drinking, touch or pressure, emotions of the mind or mental exertions...
Pagina 200 - In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall the dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
Pagina 55 - I. Magnetism has no effect upon persons in a state of sound health, nor upon some diseased persons. II. In others, its effects are slight. III. These effects are sometimes produced by ennui, by monotony, by the imagination. IV. We have seen them developed independently of these last causes, most probably as the effect of magnetism alone.

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