Lowell Lectures: On the Application of Metaphysical and Ethical Science to the Evidence of ReligionC. C. Little and J. Brown, 1849 - 465 páginas |
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Abraham Tucker absolute abstract action admit agency animal antecedent appear appetites argument argument from design atheistic attributes believe benevolence body brute called causation character chemical affinity conceive conception conclusion conduct conscience consciousness consequences considered constitution creation Creator Deity direct distinct Divine doctrine Dugald Stewart duty earth effect efficient cause ence enjoyment evidence evil exertion existence experience external fact faculty faith happiness human ical idea induction infer infinite infinite series inquiry instance instinct intellect intelligence knowledge Lecture logical manifested matter means ment metaphysical mind moral government moral universe motion motives Natural Religion natural theology necessary never object obligation observation organs origin outward peculiar perfect person phenomena philosophical physical science pleasure polytheism principles proof prove purpose reason religious respect revelation sense skepticism soul Spinoza suppose theory things tion truth universe virtue whole wisdom words
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Página 34 - THE heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.
Página 23 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate— Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute — And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Página 262 - Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.
Página 91 - Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains ; and of all that we behold From this green earth...
Página 415 - Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.
Página 419 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word...
Página 356 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Página 135 - But wandering oft, with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not Thee, marks not the mighty Hand That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres ; Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring...
Página 143 - That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Página 401 - The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice, and shall come forth : they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation...