 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 416 pages
...the truth and power of God. It is an old and true distinction, that things may be above our reason, without being contrary to it. Of this kind are the power, the nature, and the universal presence of God, with innumerable other points. How little do those who quarrel with mysteries... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 418 pages
...the truth and power of God. It is an old and true distinction, that things may be above our reason, without being contrary to it. Of this kind are the power, the nature, and the universal presence of God, with innumerable other points. How little do those who quarrel with mysteries... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1807 - 758 pages
...Addifin, 4. In a ftste of being fapcrionr to ; unattainable by. — Jt is an old and true didinflion, that things may be above our reafon, without being...it. Of this kind are the power, the nature, and the univeri.il prefence of God, with innumerable other points. Swift 5. Beyond r niore than. — We were... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 462 pages
...the truth and power of God. It is an old and true distinction, that things may be above our reason, without being contrary to it. Of this kind are the power, the nature, and the universal presence of God, with innumerable other points. How little do those who quarrel with mysteries... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 470 pages
...the truth and power of God. It is an old and true distinction, that things may be above our reason, without being contrary to it. Of this kind are the power, the nature, and the universal presence of God, with innumerable other points. How little do those who quarrel with mysteries... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 468 pages
...with innumerable other points. How little do those who quarrel with mysteries know of the commonest actions of nature ! The growth of an animal, of a plant, or of the smallest seed, is a mystery to the wisest among men. If an ignorant person were told, that a loadstone... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 756 pages
...— It is an old and true dittincYion, that things fays, from the 'teftimonies of antiquity, that ii may be above our reafon, without being contrary to...univerfal prefence of God, with innumerable other points. Swift. 5. Beyond; more than. — We were prefied out of meafure, above was formerly an ifland, and... | |
 | John Rogers Pitman - 1828 - 620 pages
...with innumerable other points. How little do those who quarrel with mysteries, know of the commonest actions of nature ! The growth of an animal, of a plant, or of the smallest seed, is a mystery to the wisest among men. If an ignorant person were told, that a loadstone... | |
 | Joseph Samuel Christian Frederick Frey - 1837 - 440 pages
...comprehension. " It is an old and true distinction," says Dean Swift, "that things may be above our reason without being contrary to it. Of this kind are the power, the nature, and the universal presence of God, with innumerable other points. How little do those who quarrel with mysteries,... | |
 | Frederic Martin (of London.) - Bible - 1838 - 418 pages
...the truth and power of God. It is an old and true distinction, that things may be above our reason without being contrary to it. Of this kind are the power, the nature, and the universal presence of God, with innumerable other points. How little do those who quarrel with mysteries,... | |
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How little do those who quarrel with mysteries know of the commonest actions of nature ! the growth of an animal, of a plant, or of the smallest seed, is a mystery to the wisest among men. 
