Lectures on the Progress of Civilization and Government, and Other SubjectsG.H. Derby and Company, 1851 - 215 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Aldebaran ancient angels animal apostacy arts Babylon barbarism body Book of Job centuries Chaldean character Christianity Church civilization and government coast connection continent corruption darkness deny divine doctrine earth Education Egypt element Empire evil exhibiting existence Ezion-Geber fact faith gaze glory gold Gospel Guizot heaven Hebrew Holy human Hyades idea immortality inferior influence of Christianity instinct intellectual Japheth judicial astrology language law of progress learning LECTURE light ligion material ment mental mind modern monuments moral mystery nations nature never Ophir opinion organization original Pagan pass perfect philosophy Phoenicia Phrenology polytheism popular population possession powers principles profane history question race racter reason religion religious result revelation sacred savage says schools Scotland Scriptures shine social Socinian soul Spirit stars superior supernatural temples testimony theory things thou thought tion true truth universal vast Vestiges of Creation wealth wilderness wisdom worship
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 26 - Hast thou given the horse strength ? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder ? Canst 'thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength : He goeth on to meet the armed men.
Seite 198 - Have the gates of death been opened unto thee ? Or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
Seite 87 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Seite 43 - We know that we have made no discoveries, and we think that no discoveries are to be made in morality, nor many in the great principles of government, nor in the ideas of liberty, which were understood long before we were born altogether as well as they will be after the grave has heaped its mold upon our presumption and the silent tomb shall have imposed its law on our pert loquacity.
Seite 209 - I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth...
Seite 49 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Seite 120 - And tall, and strong, and swift of foot, were they, Beyond the dwarfing city's pale abortions, Because their thoughts had never been the prey Of care or gain...
Seite 49 - And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
Seite 14 - Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers.
Seite 202 - Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.