The Doctrine of Changes as Applicable Both to the Institutions of Social Life and to the Progressive Order of Nature |
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... conceive - and I know , that in many things be- sides what concerns a new house , men are every day guilty of similar mistakes . I will , therefore , keep my old house as long as I can - I will adorn it by every art which I can command ...
... conceive - and I know , that in many things be- sides what concerns a new house , men are every day guilty of similar mistakes . I will , therefore , keep my old house as long as I can - I will adorn it by every art which I can command ...
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... conceived as a mat- ter of possible occurrence , as any one of the changes which have since happened with such portentous and startling rapidity . In a word , great men arose in those days - and great events signalized them - the reign ...
... conceived as a mat- ter of possible occurrence , as any one of the changes which have since happened with such portentous and startling rapidity . In a word , great men arose in those days - and great events signalized them - the reign ...
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... conceive that any great change in the general system of the country could ever take place — and who , believing ... conceived as likely to undergo . And the fact is , that this conviction prevailed in many minds to such an extent ...
... conceive that any great change in the general system of the country could ever take place — and who , believing ... conceived as likely to undergo . And the fact is , that this conviction prevailed in many minds to such an extent ...
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... conceive , the wonderful things that are to be done upon the earth , long after our short moment of existence has vanished -- or through what glo- rious changes the vast and enduring kingdom of God has yet to pass — what alterations in ...
... conceive , the wonderful things that are to be done upon the earth , long after our short moment of existence has vanished -- or through what glo- rious changes the vast and enduring kingdom of God has yet to pass — what alterations in ...
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... , now that it has occurred , seems to us , on looking back over preceding circumstances , to have been one of the most likely to have taken place that could have been conceived . It is needless here 34 GENERAL VIEWS APPLICABLE.
... , now that it has occurred , seems to us , on looking back over preceding circumstances , to have been one of the most likely to have taken place that could have been conceived . It is needless here 34 GENERAL VIEWS APPLICABLE.
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according actual ages alterations amidst appear arrangements attained beauty Book of Job boundless changes character conceived condition conduct considered Cornelius the Centurion course destined disposed dition Divine Providence duties earth enlightened entire error essentially evil existence Extemporaneous Preaching extent extravagant feeling forms give gradual grand happiness human affairs human mind human race idea imagination improvement individual infinite influence institutions interests J. D. Michaelis knowledge labourers liberal life-and limited mankind means ment merely modes of thought moral multitude nature never notions observation operation opinions peculiar perfect period persons philosophical political portion powers preceding present principles production progress purposes quiet racter relation religious rence respecting result Robert Menzies scheme seems Slavery social society specting speculations spirit style supposed supposition tain tendency things Tholuck throughout tical timate tion true truth ture universal vast vidual whole
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Page 520 - Take the wings Of morning, and the Barcan desert pierce, Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
Page 520 - ... So shalt thou rest, and what if thou withdraw In silence from the living, and no friend Take note of thy departure ? All that breathe Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone; the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come, And make their bed with thee.
Page 520 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach...
Page 103 - The first of these is the extreme affecting of two extremities; the one Antiquity, the other Novelty : wherein it seemeth the children of time do take after the nature and malice of the father. For as he devoureth his children, so one of them seeketh to devour and suppress the other ; while antiquity envieth there should be new additions, and novelty cannot be content to add but it must deface.
Page 277 - ... that while he gazed upwards to the stars fell into the water; for if he had looked down he might have seen the stars in the water, but looking aloft he could not see the water in the stars. So it cometh often to pass that mean and small things discover great better than great can discover the small; and therefore Aristotle noteth well, that the nature of every thing is best seen in his smallest portions...
Page 520 - The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.
Page 303 - The successful results of our experiments and reasonings in natural philosophy, and the incalculable advantages which experience, systematically consulted and dispassionately 'reasoned on, has conferred in matters purely physical, tend of necessity to impress something of the well weighed and progressive character of science on the more complicated conduct of our social and moral relations. It is thus that legislation and politics become gradually regarded as experimental...
Page 38 - Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take; the clouds ye so much dread are big with mercy, and shall break^ in blessings on your head.
Page 505 - By virtue of this life the great masses are held together in their orderly courses, as well as the minutest particles governed in their natural motions, according to the several laws of attraction, gravity, electricity, magnetism, and the rest. It is this gives instinct, teaches the spider her web, and the bee her honey.
Page 300 - ... and more effectually developed in their consequences, and receive that ductility and plastic quality which the pressure of minds of all descriptions, constantly moulding them to their purposes, can alone bestow. But to this end it is necessary that it should be divested, as far as possible, of artificial difficulties, and stripped of all such technicalities as tend to place it in the light of a craft and a mystery, inaccessible without a kind of apprenticeship.