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Page 51 - And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see ; and that they which see might be made JESUS DECLARES HIMSELF TO BE THE GOOD SHEPHERD.
Page 6 - Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege? Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God? For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
Page 256 - I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable; because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain ; and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either.
Page 230 - There is in nature no moving power but mind ; all else is passive and inert : in human affairs, this power is opinion ; in political affairs, it is public opinion ; and he who can grasp the power, with it will subdue the fleshly arm of physical strength, and compel it to work out his purpose.
Page 5 - Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing, settled in the imagination ; but never arriving at the understanding, there to obtain the tincture of reason.
Page 248 - The learning of this people is very defective, consisting only in morality, history, poetry, and mathematics, wherein they must be allowed to excel. But the last of these is wholly applied to what may be useful in life, to the improvement of agriculture and all mechanical arts; so that among us it would be little esteemed. And as to ideas, entities, abstractions and transcendentals, I could never drive the least conception into their heads.
Page 4 - CommonSense only in those cases where he himself has nothing else to trust to, and invariably resorts to the rules of art, wherever he possesses the knowledge of them, it is plain that mankind universally bear their testimony, though unconsciously and often unwillingly, to the preferableness of systematic knowledge to conjectural judgments.
Page 15 - WILL you walk into my parlour ? " said the Spider to the Fly, " Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy ; The way into my parlour is up a winding stair, And I have many curious things to show when you are there."
Page 230 - ... purpose. Those statesmen who know how to avail themselves of the passions, the interests, and the opinions of mankind, are able to gain an ascendancy, and to exercise a sway over human affairs far out of all proportion greater than belongs to the power and resources of the state over which they preside.
Page 40 - VI. ERRORS ABOUT CIVIL SOCIETY, CONSIDERED BOTH IN ITSELF AND IN ITS RELATION TO THE CHURCH 39. The Commonwealth is the origin and source of all rights, and possesses rights which are not circumscribed by any limits.