An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent |
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abstrac abstract act of assent act of inference antecedent argument Athanasian Creed believe called Catholic certainly certitude character Christ Christianity Church conclusion concrete conscience consider conviction course Creed crete distinct Divine doctrine dogma doubt duty ence evidence exercise experience external fact faculty faith Father give hold Holy human Illative Sense imagination imply individual infallible inquire instance instinct intellectual ipse dixit Jews Judaism judgment Julius Cæsar knowledge living logical Lord lucern matter means medicago sativa ment mental mind modes moral mystery Natural Religion never notional assent object opinion ourselves particular phenomena philosophical phronesis premisses present principle probability profession proof proposition Protestantism proved question ratiocination real assent reason religious revelation rule Scripture sion Sir George Lewis speak subject-matter syllogism Tacitus tain teaching testimony theology things thought tion true truth whole words
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Page 166 - ... the three angles of a triangle are together equal to two right angles, although it is not known to all.
Page 81 - Let us consider, too, how differently young and old are affected by the words of some classic author, such as Homer or Horace. Passages, which to a boy are but rhetorical commonplaces, neither better nor worse than a hundred others which any clever writer might supply, which he gets by heart and thinks very fine, and imitates, as he thinks, successfully, in his own flowing versification...
Page 410 - We are of God: he that knoweth God, heareth us; he that is not of God, heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
Page 299 - It is experience only which gives authority to human testimony ; and it is the same experience which assures us of the laws of nature.
Page 95 - The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us.
Page 159 - He that would seriously set upon the search of truth, ought in the first place to prepare his mind with a love of it; for he that loves it not, will not take much pains to get it, nor be much concerned when he misses it.
Page 88 - ... there's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.
Page 158 - These probabilities rise so near to certainty, that they govern our thoughts as absolutely, and influence all our actions as fully, as the most evident demonstration ; and, in what concerns us, we make little or no difference between them and certain knowledge. Our belief thus grounded rises to assurance.
Page 259 - This freedom from action and question at the suit of an individual is given by the law to the judges, not so much for their own sake as for the sake of the public, and for the advancement of justice, that being free from actions they may be free in thought, and independent in judgment, as all who are to administer justice ought to be.