The Southern Review, Volume 9, Issues 18-20Bledsoe and Herrick, 1871 |
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... philosophers, to account for the natural evils of the present life. Indeed, it is little more than a modification of that ancient dream , for it supposes that an infant suffers now, because its soul existed in Adam six thousand years ...
... philosophers, to account for the natural evils of the present life. Indeed, it is little more than a modification of that ancient dream , for it supposes that an infant suffers now, because its soul existed in Adam six thousand years ...
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... philosophers who doubt it. Dugald Stewart for one, has very clearly and explicitly said, ' We are conscious of sensation, :r Es -n y, p. 188. 81 Essny, pp 1C0-191 . thought, desire, volition; but we are not conscious of the 2S4 The ...
... philosophers who doubt it. Dugald Stewart for one, has very clearly and explicitly said, ' We are conscious of sensation, :r Es -n y, p. 188. 81 Essny, pp 1C0-191 . thought, desire, volition; but we are not conscious of the 2S4 The ...
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... philosopher, we are only conscious ofthe phenomena of our minds, and hy vir, tue of a fundamental law of belief, we are necessitated to believe that there is something which thinks, and wills, and feels. The same view was taken of the ...
... philosopher, we are only conscious ofthe phenomena of our minds, and hy vir, tue of a fundamental law of belief, we are necessitated to believe that there is something which thinks, and wills, and feels. The same view was taken of the ...
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... philosopher could have given a better answer.' There is, indeed, many a philosopher, who could not return half so good an answer, unless he would first give bis philosophy to the winds, and then, like a little child, permit the voice of ...
... philosopher could have given a better answer.' There is, indeed, many a philosopher, who could not return half so good an answer, unless he would first give bis philosophy to the winds, and then, like a little child, permit the voice of ...
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... philosophers, who are sedulous only to live elbow-deep ' in the alms-basket of words ', and ' to draw out the thread of their verbosity finer than the staple of their argument ' ; — such have been our actual teachers, under whose ...
... philosophers, who are sedulous only to live elbow-deep ' in the alms-basket of words ', and ' to draw out the thread of their verbosity finer than the staple of their argument ' ; — such have been our actual teachers, under whose ...
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Page 520 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 805 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 985 - ... having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed in himself: That in the dispensation of the fulness of times, he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth, even in him...
Page 812 - For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind : But the tongue can no man tame ; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Page 625 - HOW sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest ! When spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
Page 318 - I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me, The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue.
Page 520 - to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to 44 see a battle and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth...
Page 526 - I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
Page 519 - Truth may, perhaps, come to the price of a pearl that showeth best by day, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ^ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?
Page 932 - Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; * but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.