Worthies of ScienceReligious Tract Society, 1879 - 342 páginas |
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... human know- ledge ; and amidst allegorical interpretations and theo- logical positions characteristic of the age , he contends for the close connection between religion and science.1 He looked upon Divine revelation as the most precious ...
... human know- ledge ; and amidst allegorical interpretations and theo- logical positions characteristic of the age , he contends for the close connection between religion and science.1 He looked upon Divine revelation as the most precious ...
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... human ignorance , and he enumerates four : authority , custom , popular opinion , and the pride of fancied know- ledge . These four causes of ignorance will at once bring to mind the four idols of Lord Bacon , but the two ...
... human ignorance , and he enumerates four : authority , custom , popular opinion , and the pride of fancied know- ledge . These four causes of ignorance will at once bring to mind the four idols of Lord Bacon , but the two ...
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... human avails nothing till applied to that which is Divine . " He notices how mathematics are connected with astronomy , also how astronomy forms a part of Scripture , and is interwoven with many sacred questions . On this subject he is ...
... human avails nothing till applied to that which is Divine . " He notices how mathematics are connected with astronomy , also how astronomy forms a part of Scripture , and is interwoven with many sacred questions . On this subject he is ...
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... human authority ; and when opposing error he distinctly says , addressing the pope , to whom he sent his book , " Let not your Serenity imagine that I intend to excite your Holiness , in order that the papal Majesty should em- ploy ...
... human authority ; and when opposing error he distinctly says , addressing the pope , to whom he sent his book , " Let not your Serenity imagine that I intend to excite your Holiness , in order that the papal Majesty should em- ploy ...
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... human ignorance , com- pared with other parts of his writings , in which he appears as a faithful and obedient son and servant of the Church , is in our eyes palpable enough . But no doubt , as we have said before , he could , and ...
... human ignorance , com- pared with other parts of his writings , in which he appears as a faithful and obedient son and servant of the Church , is in our eyes palpable enough . But no doubt , as we have said before , he could , and ...
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Página 61 - HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. And therefore God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Página 61 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion: for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Página 112 - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale ; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound...
Página 65 - Thy creatures have been my books, but thy Scriptures much more. I have sought thee in the courts, fields, and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples.
Página 160 - ... found themselves quickly at a stand, by the difficulties that rose on every side. After we had a while puzzled ourselves, without coming any nearer a resolution of those doubts which perplexed us, it came into my thoughts that we took a wrong course, and that, before we set ourselves upon inquiries of that nature, it was necessary to examine our own abilities, and see what objects our understandings were, or were not, fitted to deal with.
Página 164 - ... and the make of our animal spirits, are concerned in this ; and whether the temper of the brain makes this difference, that in some it retains the characters drawn on it like marble, in others like free-stone, and in others little better than sand, I shall not here inquire: though it may seem probable that the constitution of the body does sometimes influence the memory; since we oftentimes find a disease quite strip the mind of all its ideas, and the flames of a fever in a few days calcine all...
Página 165 - It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean. It is well he knows that it is long enough to reach the bottom, at such places as are necessary to direct his voyage, and caution him against running upon shoals that may ruin him.
Página 136 - Saturn, the spots in the Sun, and its turning on its own Axis, the Inequalities and Selenography of the Moon, the several Phases of Venus and Mercury, the Improvement of Telescopes, and grinding of Glasses for that purpose, the Weight of Air, the Possibility or Impossibility of Vacuities and Nature's Abhorrence thereof, the Torricellian Experiment in Quicksilver, the Descent of heavy Bodies, and the degrees of Acceleration therein ; and divers other things of like nature.
Página 148 - Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; that they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate ; laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Página 18 - We can so shape transparent substances, and so arrange them with respect to our sight and objects, that rays can be broken and bent as we please, so that objects may be seen far off or near, under whatever angle we please ; and thus from an incredible distance we may read the smallest letters, and number the grains of dust and sand...