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Page 57
... universe which is least the concern of man . The climber is not less susceptible to the ordinary beauty of the mountains , if I may call it such this power they have to stir such subtly mingled feel- ings when they are seen from below ...
... universe which is least the concern of man . The climber is not less susceptible to the ordinary beauty of the mountains , if I may call it such this power they have to stir such subtly mingled feel- ings when they are seen from below ...
Page 167
... universe is exactly as he wishes it to be . All his needs are satisfied before even he becomes aware of them , and if his awareness is dim , that is but the natural result of a com- plete harmony between the self and the environment ...
... universe is exactly as he wishes it to be . All his needs are satisfied before even he becomes aware of them , and if his awareness is dim , that is but the natural result of a com- plete harmony between the self and the environment ...
Page 168
... universe also . The earth is the centre of all existing things , man is the child and the protégé of those gods who transcend and who will ultimately enable him to transcend all the evils which he has been compelled to rec- ognize . The ...
... universe also . The earth is the centre of all existing things , man is the child and the protégé of those gods who transcend and who will ultimately enable him to transcend all the evils which he has been compelled to rec- ognize . The ...
Page 169
... universe was rational if he could only grasp its rationality , but gradually he comes to suspect that rationality is an attribute of himself alone and that there is no reason to sup- pose that his own life has any more meaning than the ...
... universe was rational if he could only grasp its rationality , but gradually he comes to suspect that rationality is an attribute of himself alone and that there is no reason to sup- pose that his own life has any more meaning than the ...
Page 170
... universe has man as its centre and is hence under- standable in his terms , but this implica- tion was disregarded just as , a little later , the implications of the theory of evolution were similarly disregarded . It is not likely that ...
... universe has man as its centre and is hence under- standable in his terms , but this implica- tion was disregarded just as , a little later , the implications of the theory of evolution were similarly disregarded . It is not likely that ...
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Page 493 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Page 475 - It is the right of the lawyer to undertake the defense of a person accused of crime, regardless of his personal opinion as to the guilt of the accused ; otherwise innocent persons, victims only of suspicious circumstances, might be denied proper defense. Having undertaken such defense, the lawyer is bound by all fair and honorable means, to present every defense that the law of the land permits, to the end that no person may be deprived of life or liberty, but by due process of law...
Page 708 - New occasions teach new duties : Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea. Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Page 533 - The law knows no heresy, and is committed to the support of no dogma, the establishment of no sect.
Page 766 - In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a Sigh I wish it mine ; When He can in one Couplet fix More Sense than I can do in six; It gives me such a jealous Fit, I cry "Pox take him and his Wit!
Page 297 - Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
Page 493 - Seven years, My Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement or one smile of favour.
Page 493 - I give my vote for Mr. Johnson to fill that great and arduous post. And I hereby declare, that I make a total surrender of all my rights and privileges in the English language, as a free-born British subject, to the said Mr. Johnson, during the term of his dictatorship.
Page 716 - The right to organize voluntary religious associations to assist in the expression and dissemination of any religious doctrine, and to create tribunals for the decision of controverted questions of faith within the association, and for the ecclesiastical government of all the individual members, congregations, and officers within the general association, is unquestioned. All who unite themselves to such a body do so with an implied consent to this government, and are bound to submit to it.
Page 531 - The Almighty, therefore, has appointed the charge of the human race between two powers, the ecclesiastical and the civil, the one being set over divine, and the other over human, things. Each in its kind is supreme, each has fixed limits within which it is contained, limits which are defined by the nature and special object of the province of each...