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... lead the mind to seek it again . Or had nature by some implanted instinct provided for these necessities , yet life in this case would have consisted of a mere succession of sensations , without even the amount of intellect , of 32 ...
... lead the mind to seek it again . Or had nature by some implanted instinct provided for these necessities , yet life in this case would have consisted of a mere succession of sensations , without even the amount of intellect , of 32 ...
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... lead- ing object of desire , whatever conceptions seem best fitted to his purpose , are immediately invested with interest and be- come distinct and clear . If the merchant , or the capitalist , or the statesman , has some project which ...
... lead- ing object of desire , whatever conceptions seem best fitted to his purpose , are immediately invested with interest and be- come distinct and clear . If the merchant , or the capitalist , or the statesman , has some project which ...
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... leads to ambition and pride , those principles which have filled the world with contention , and deluged it with blood . Pride may be defined as an excessive desire for the estimation of other minds , or as the feeling which exists from ...
... leads to ambition and pride , those principles which have filled the world with contention , and deluged it with blood . Pride may be defined as an excessive desire for the estimation of other minds , or as the feeling which exists from ...
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... lead to facts that will establish the position assumed . Emotions of taste generally are divided into two classes , called emotions of sublimity , and emotions of beauty . Emotions of sublimity resemble those which exist in the mind ...
... lead to facts that will establish the position assumed . Emotions of taste generally are divided into two classes , called emotions of sublimity , and emotions of beauty . Emotions of sublimity resemble those which exist in the mind ...
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... leads to singular confusion in language , and is in fact contrary to the experience of every mind . Every person has been conscious of the existence of strong and long continued desires , which the mind did not choose to gratify ...
... leads to singular confusion in language , and is in fact contrary to the experience of every mind . Every person has been conscious of the existence of strong and long continued desires , which the mind did not choose to gratify ...
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Page 308 - And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so ? 23 Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil : but if well, why smitest thou me?
Page 373 - ... that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation, in the knowledge of him; the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints...
Page 353 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 306 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Page 352 - Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep...
Page 376 - For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good Word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
Page 306 - Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Page 303 - Lo, these are parts of his ways; but how little a portion is heard of him?
Page 222 - And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Page 293 - And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.