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... conclusion of the whole matter ; Fear God , and keep his commandments : for this is the whole of man . Religion the perfection of our nature . The duty of scientific studies , especially in a course of education . Exhortations to ...
... conclusion of the whole matter ; Fear God , and keep his commandments : for this is the whole of man . Religion the perfection of our nature . The duty of scientific studies , especially in a course of education . Exhortations to ...
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... conclusion of any reasonable being in a parallel case . Let us imagine a manuscript written three thousand years ago , and professing to be a revelation from the Deity , in which it was stated that the colour of the paper of the very ...
... conclusion of any reasonable being in a parallel case . Let us imagine a manuscript written three thousand years ago , and professing to be a revelation from the Deity , in which it was stated that the colour of the paper of the very ...
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... conclusion which the uninstructed observer ought in fairness to draw ? Can he satisfy himself with the asser- tion , that the most eminent geologists are , in general , secret or open infidels ; that their doc- trines upon the ...
... conclusion which the uninstructed observer ought in fairness to draw ? Can he satisfy himself with the asser- tion , that the most eminent geologists are , in general , secret or open infidels ; that their doc- trines upon the ...
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... conclusion that the work of creation , or at least so far as respects our planet , took place not quite six thousand years ago ; it is evident that the two positions cannot both stand : one destroys the other . One of them must be an ...
... conclusion that the work of creation , or at least so far as respects our planet , took place not quite six thousand years ago ; it is evident that the two positions cannot both stand : one destroys the other . One of them must be an ...
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... conditions . We hence deduce conclusions : these are confirmed by universal experience : we feel a perfect confi- dence , that , whenever the conditions are similar , LECT.I. the results will be similar also : and we.
... conditions . We hence deduce conclusions : these are confirmed by universal experience : we feel a perfect confi- dence , that , whenever the conditions are similar , LECT.I. the results will be similar also : and we.
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Page 274 - There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured ; coals were kindled by it.
Page 411 - O Lord, how manifold are thy works ! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
Page 304 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Page 258 - Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
Page 255 - Is Ephraim my dear son ? is he a pleasant child ? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still : therefore my bowels are troubled for him ; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord.
Page 305 - Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.
Page 104 - And the waters returned from off the earth continually : and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains, of Ararat.
Page 255 - And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous, I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
Page 306 - And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
Page 324 - I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things...