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Page 351 - The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.
Page 202 - God is no respecter of persons, but in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of Him.
Page 122 - I am brought to speak of the church's infallibility, as a provision, adapted by the mercy of the Creator, to preserve religion in the world, and to restrain that freedom of thought, which of course in itself is one of the greatest of our natural gifts, and to rescue it from its own suicidal excesses.
Page 313 - What though the music of thy rustic flute Kept not for long its happy, country tone, Lost it too soon, and learnt a stormy note, Of men contention-tost, of men who groan...
Page 127 - It is indeed a great question whether atheism is not as philosophically consistent with the phenomena of the physical world, taken by themselves, as the doctrine of a creative and governing Power.
Page 390 - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Page 120 - I came to the conclusion that there was no medium, in true philosophy, between Atheism and Catholicity, and that a perfectly consistent mind, under those circumstances in which it finds itself here below, must embrace either the one or the...
Page 216 - ... Shall we assume Matter and its necessary properties to be eternal, or Mind with its divine attributes ? Does the sun shine to warm the earth, or is the earth warmed because the sun shines ? The one hypothesis will solve the phenomena as well as the other. Say not it is but a puzzle in argument, and no one ever felt it in fact.
Page 443 - I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed.
Page 349 - Balfour.— THE FOUNDATIONS OF BELIEF : being Notes Introductory to the Study of Theology.