World's Laconics Being Choice Thoughts of Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1871 - 432 pages |
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... believe , that the sun was neither the cause of light nor heat , if he could only get six philosophers on his side . - Goldsmith . ABSURDITIES , IN OURSELVES.- -To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others ...
... believe , that the sun was neither the cause of light nor heat , if he could only get six philosophers on his side . - Goldsmith . ABSURDITIES , IN OURSELVES.- -To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others ...
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... believe , will never be an atheist ; the frame of man's body , and coherence of his parts , being so strange and paradoxal , that I hold it to be the greatest miracle of nature ; though when all is done I do not find she hath made it so ...
... believe , will never be an atheist ; the frame of man's body , and coherence of his parts , being so strange and paradoxal , that I hold it to be the greatest miracle of nature ; though when all is done I do not find she hath made it so ...
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... believe in them . The thing formed , says that nothing formed it ; and that which is made , is , while that which made it is not ! finite . Jeremy Taylor . This folly is in- ATHEIST AND HYPOCRITE . - An atheist is but a mad ridic- ulous ...
... believe in them . The thing formed , says that nothing formed it ; and that which is made , is , while that which made it is not ! finite . Jeremy Taylor . This folly is in- ATHEIST AND HYPOCRITE . - An atheist is but a mad ridic- ulous ...
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... believe only what he can fully com- prehend , must have a very long head , or a very short creed . Many gain a false credit for liberality of sentiment in re- ligious matters , not from any tenderness they may have to the opinions or ...
... believe only what he can fully com- prehend , must have a very long head , or a very short creed . Many gain a false credit for liberality of sentiment in re- ligious matters , not from any tenderness they may have to the opinions or ...
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... believe nothing which he could not understand . " Then , young man , your creed will be the shortest of any man's I know . " BENEFICENCE . - There is no use of money equal to that of beneficence ; here the enjoyment grows on reflection ...
... believe nothing which he could not understand . " Then , young man , your creed will be the shortest of any man's I know . " BENEFICENCE . - There is no use of money equal to that of beneficence ; here the enjoyment grows on reflection ...
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