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... human ; the divine is great and powerful and easy ; the human is mean and weak , and has many dangers and no small deceitfulness . The mass of people call it education ( Taideíav ) , as being , I suppose , an amusement ( raudiav ) , and ...
... human ; the divine is great and powerful and easy ; the human is mean and weak , and has many dangers and no small deceitfulness . The mass of people call it education ( Taideíav ) , as being , I suppose , an amusement ( raudiav ) , and ...
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... humanity from which it had at first been isolated , yet , on the other hand , by crushing uncultivated earnest- ness , and by laying more stress on the expression of ideas than upon ideas themselves , it tended to stem the very forces ...
... humanity from which it had at first been isolated , yet , on the other hand , by crushing uncultivated earnest- ness , and by laying more stress on the expression of ideas than upon ideas themselves , it tended to stem the very forces ...
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... human things ; " and there is a treatise by an unknown author of imperial times which endeavours to show in detail that he contains the beginning of every one of the later sciences , historical , philosophical , and politi- cal . When ...
... human things ; " and there is a treatise by an unknown author of imperial times which endeavours to show in detail that he contains the beginning of every one of the later sciences , historical , philosophical , and politi- cal . When ...
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... human life , and sometimes that the existence of immorality in Homer must clearly be allowed , but that if a balance were struck between the good and the evil , the good would be found largely to predominate.1 There were other ...
... human life , and sometimes that the existence of immorality in Homer must clearly be allowed , but that if a balance were struck between the good and the evil , the good would be found largely to predominate.1 There were other ...
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... human thought chained to the painful necessities of physical life , its liver gnawed at unceasingly by petty cares.2 He is the " leader of soul to rest ; and the 1 c . 16 . 2 c . 18 . Two other examples of the method may be given from ...
... human thought chained to the painful necessities of physical life , its liver gnawed at unceasingly by petty cares.2 He is the " leader of soul to rest ; and the 1 c . 16 . 2 c . 18 . Two other examples of the method may be given from ...
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Page 170 - For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Page xxiv - The Sermon on the Mount is the promulgation of a new law of conduct; it assumes beliefs rather than formulates them ; the theological conceptions which underlie it belong to the ethical rather than the speculative side of theology; metaphysics are wholly absent. The Nicene Creed is a statement partly of historical facts and partly of dogmatic inferences ; the metaphysical terms which it contains would probably have been unintelligible to the first disciples ; ethics have no place in it. The one belongs...
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Page 253 - We thank thee, holy Father, for thy holy name, which thou hast caused to dwell in our hearts, and for the knowledge and faith and immortality which thou hast made known to us through Jesus thy servant ; to thee be the glory forever.
Page 302 - We thank thee, our Father, for the holy vine of David thy servant, which thou hast made known to us through Jesus thy servant ; to thee be the glory forever.