Half-hours with the freethinkers, ed. by J. Watts, 'Iconoclast', and A. CollinsJohn Watts 1857 |
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Strana 1
... happier , wisdom and happiness will spread through their several circles , exercising an elevating influence over all . The extent of our work will depend much upon the encouragement we receive , but to prevent disappointment , we will ...
... happier , wisdom and happiness will spread through their several circles , exercising an elevating influence over all . The extent of our work will depend much upon the encouragement we receive , but to prevent disappointment , we will ...
Strana 22
... happier island in the watery waste ; Where slaves once more their native land behold , Nor fiends torment , nor ... happiness . Throughout the whole Essay the distinctions arising from nature and instinct are defined and defended ...
... happier island in the watery waste ; Where slaves once more their native land behold , Nor fiends torment , nor ... happiness . Throughout the whole Essay the distinctions arising from nature and instinct are defined and defended ...
Strana 23
... happiness to the people . The first principle laid down is the corner- stone of materialism- What can we reason but from what we know ? ' . which is stated , explained , and defended with an axiomatic brevity rarely equalled , never ...
... happiness to the people . The first principle laid down is the corner- stone of materialism- What can we reason but from what we know ? ' . which is stated , explained , and defended with an axiomatic brevity rarely equalled , never ...
Strana 31
... happiest moments of the happiest and best minds . We are aware of evanescent visitations of thought and feeling , sometimes associated with place and person , sometimes regarding our own mind alone , and always arising unforeseen , and ...
... happiest moments of the happiest and best minds . We are aware of evanescent visitations of thought and feeling , sometimes associated with place and person , sometimes regarding our own mind alone , and always arising unforeseen , and ...
Strana 32
... happier circumstances were gathering around him , a blast of wind came , and the waves of the sea washed away one who was really and truly a man and a poet . ' On Monday , July 8th , 1822 , being then in his twenty - ninth year ...
... happier circumstances were gathering around him , a blast of wind came , and the waves of the sea washed away one who was really and truly a man and a poet . ' On Monday , July 8th , 1822 , being then in his twenty - ninth year ...
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Strana 87 - That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish.
Strana 87 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Strana 183 - Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.
Strana 182 - And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him. And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith ? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also : go forth, and do so.
Strana 25 - I will be wise, And just, and free, and mild, if in me lies Such power, for I grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannise Without reproach or check.
Strana 86 - There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious.
Strana 180 - The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb...
Strana 181 - Then he said, I pray, thee, therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house ; for I have five brethren ; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
Strana 94 - This decaying sense, when we would express the thing itself (I mean fancy itself) we call Imagination, as I said before: but when we would express the decay, and signify that the sense is fading, old and past, it is called Memory. So that imagination and memory are but one thing which for divers considerations hath divers names.
Strana 182 - A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof (Jer.5:22-31).