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Page 377 - I was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.
Page 297 - We preach Christ crucified to the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness ; but to them who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
Page 406 - Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
Page xxiv - But God has not been so sparing to men to make them barely two-legged creatures, and left it to Aristotle to make them rational.
Page 30 - Rabbi, we know that Thou art a Teacher sent from God : for no man can do these miracles that Thou doest, except God be with him.
Page 388 - The word VALUE, it is to be observed, has two different meanings, and sometimes expresses the utility of some particular object, and sometimes the power of purchasing other goods which the possession of that object conveys. The one may be called "value in use;" the other, "value in exchange.
Page 344 - From this it follows, that an a priori perception, and not an empirical perception, underlies all conceptions of pure space. Accordingly, no geometrical proposition, as, for instance, that any two sides of a triangle are greater than the third side, can ever be derived from the general conceptions of line and triangle, but only from perception.
Page 295 - ... inferring and proving; which are not two different things, but the same thing regarded in two different points of view ; like the road from London to York, and the road from York to London. He who infers, proves; and he who proves, infers; but the word infer fixes the mind first on the premiss and then on the conclusion; the word prove, on the contrary, leads the mind from the conclusion to the premiss.
Page 186 - that their minds have the command of Language; but it often happens that Language bears rule over their mind.
Page 171 - By a Fallacy is commonly understood, " any unsound mode of arguing, which appears to demand our conviction, and to be decisive of the question in hand, when in fairness it is not.