 | 1855 - 630 pàgines
...tremble and cry at the approach of a diminutive reptile. But, indeed, it is heroism no longer, if he know that there is no God. The wonder, then, turns on the...which a man could grow to the immense intelligence which can know there is no God. What ages and what lights are requisite for this attainment ! This... | |
 | George Combe - 1845 - 498 pàgines
...at the approach of a diminutive reptile. But indeed it is heroism no longer, if he knaua that :here lXږ& yjes and what lights are requisite for THIS attainment ! This intelligence involves the very attributes... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1846 - 472 pàgines
...deny him he must be a God himself. Upon this point, Foster also has well observed : — " The wonder turns on the great process by which a man could grow...immense intelligence that can KNOW that there is no God. This intelligence involves the very at8 NECESSITY OF A FIRST CAUSE. tributes of Divinity while a God... | |
 | John Foster - 1846 - 370 pàgines
...tremble and cry at the approach of a diminutive reptile. But indeed it is heroism no longer, if he know that there is no God. The wonder then turns on the...which a man could grow to the immense intelligence which can know that there is no God. What ages and what lights are requisite for THIS, attainment!... | |
 | John Foster, William Wallace Everts - 1849 - 344 pàgines
...of hazard from all other classes of men. 16. Ignorant and arrogant pretensians of the atheist. — The wonder then turns on the great process, by which a man could gVow to the immense intelligence that can know that there is no God. What ages and what lights are... | |
 | George Combe - 1850 - 452 pàgines
...not as yesterday a little child that would tremble and cry at the approach of a diminutive reptile. But indeed it is heroism no longer, if he knows that...wonder then turns on the great process, by which a man cou]d grow to the immense intelligence that can know that there is no God. What ages and what lights... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1850 - 416 pàgines
...powerfully rendered by Foster in the following passage extracted from one of his essays :— " The wonder turns on the great process, by which a man could grow to the immense intelligence that can know there is no God. What ages and what lights are requisite for this attainment ? This intelligence involves... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851 - 224 pàgines
...friend." Or to cite another celebrated passage from the same Essay : — " The wonder then turns upon the great process by which a man could grow to the immense intelligence which can know that there is no God. — What age and what lights are requisite for this attainment... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1853 - 172 pàgines
...and cry out at the approach of a diminutive reptile. But, indeed, it is heroism no longer, if he know that there is no God. The wonder then turns on the...which a man could grow to the immense intelligence which can know that there is no God. What ages and what lights are requisite for THIS attainment !... | |
 | Thomas Pearson - 1854 - 640 pàgines
...illustrated by Dr. Chalmers.8 " The wonder then turns," says the original minded author of the Essays, " on the great process, by which a man could grow to the immense intelligence which can know that there is no God. What ages and what lights are requisite for THIS attain1 Essays,... | |
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The wonder then turns on the great process, by which a man could grow to the immense intelligence that can know there is no God. What ages and what lights are requisite for this attainment! This intelligence involves the very attributes of Divinity, while... 
