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... present instance , I have only to urge , with Horace in his Art of Poetry , that a whetstone , though itself incapable of cutting , is yet useful in sharpening steel . No system of in- struction will completely equalize natural pow- ers ...
... present instance , I have only to urge , with Horace in his Art of Poetry , that a whetstone , though itself incapable of cutting , is yet useful in sharpening steel . No system of in- struction will completely equalize natural pow- ers ...
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... present System may prove useful to such as have their method of com- position , and their style of writing and of delivery to acquire . And an author ought to be content if a work be found in some instances not unprof- itable , which ...
... present System may prove useful to such as have their method of com- position , and their style of writing and of delivery to acquire . And an author ought to be content if a work be found in some instances not unprof- itable , which ...
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... present treatise , and in that on Logic ; and in which opinions on various subjects are incidentally conveyed ; in all of which , it cannot be expected that every one of my readers will concur . And some may accord- ingly be disposed to ...
... present treatise , and in that on Logic ; and in which opinions on various subjects are incidentally conveyed ; in all of which , it cannot be expected that every one of my readers will concur . And some may accord- ingly be disposed to ...
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... present instance , that both the wider , and the more restricted sense of a term , will be alike sanctioned by use , ( the only com- petent authority , ) and that the consequence will be a corresponding variation in the definitions ...
... present instance , that both the wider , and the more restricted sense of a term , will be alike sanctioned by use , ( the only com- petent authority , ) and that the consequence will be a corresponding variation in the definitions ...
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... present day , the extravagance of such doctrines is so apparent to most readers , that it would not be worth while to take much pains in refuting them . It is worthy of remark however , that the very same erroneous view is , even now ...
... present day , the extravagance of such doctrines is so apparent to most readers , that it would not be worth while to take much pains in refuting them . It is worthy of remark however , that the very same erroneous view is , even now ...
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Page 114 - Among men, you see the ninety and nine toiling and scraping together a heap of superfluities for one (and this one, too, oftentimes the feeblest and worst of the whole set, a child, a woman, a madman, or a fool) ; getting nothing for themselves all the while, but a little of the coarsest of the provision, which their own industry produces ; looking quietly on, while they see the fruits of all their labour spent or spoiled ; and if one of the number take or touch a particle of the hoard, the others...
Page 149 - was " to the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks, foolishness." The total change required in all the notions, habits, and systems of conduct in the first converts, constituted an obstacle to the reception of the new religion, which no other that has prevailed ever had to contend'with.
Page 341 - Scripture moveth us in sundry places to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness ; and that we should not dissemble nor cloke them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father; but confess them with an humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart; to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same, by his infinite goodness and mercy.
Page 188 - Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. If then God so clothe the grass, which is to-day in the field, and to-morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith!
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Page 192 - These metaphysic rights entering into common life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medium, are, by the laws of nature, refracted from their straight line. Indeed in the gross and complicated mass of human passions and concerns, the primitive rights of men undergo such a variety of refractions and reflections, that it becomes absurd to talk of them as if they continued in the simplicity of their original direction.
Page 78 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Page 114 - IF you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn; and if (instead of each picking where and what it liked, taking just as much as it wanted, and no more) you should see ninety-nine of them gathering all they got into a heap ; reserving nothing for themselves but the chaff and the refuse; keeping this heap for one, and that the weakest, perhaps worst...