Studies on Pascal, tr., with an appendix of notes, partly taken from the writings of lord Bacon and dr. Chalmers, by T. Smith |
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Página 304 - If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
Página 119 - Let him see therein an infinity of universes, each of which has its firmament, its planets, its earth, in the same proportion as in the visible world; in...
Página 274 - ... people who know the way which you would follow, and who are cured of an ill of which you would be cured. Follow the way by which they began; by acting as if they believed, taking the holy water, having masses said, etc. Even this will naturally make you believe, and deaden your acuteness. — "But this is what I am afraid of.
Página 316 - ... littleness at a contemplation so vast and so overpowering. He wonders that he is not overlooked amid the grandeur and the variety which are on every side of him, and passing...
Página 318 - This was the microscope. The one led me to see a system in every star. The other leads me to see a world in every atom. The one taught me. that this mighty globe, with the whole burden of...
Página 318 - These are changes which may happen in a single instant of time, and against which nothing known in the present system of things provides us with any security. They might not annihilate the earth, but they would unpeople it...
Página 319 - The one has suggested to me, that beyond and above all that is visible to man, there may lie fields of creation which sweep immeasurably along, and carry the impress of the Almighty's hand to the remotest scenes of the universe. The other suggests to me, that within and beneath all that minuteness which the aided eye of man has been able to explore, there may be a region of invisibles ; and that could we draw aside the mysterious curtain...
Página 150 - When we see a natural style, we are astonished and delighted ; for we expected to see an author, and we find a man.
Página 317 - ... stars. Is it presumption to say that the moral world extends to these distant and unknown regions ? that they are occupied with people ? that the charities of home and of neighbourhood flourish there ? that the praises of God are there lifted up, and His goodness rejoiced in...
Página 317 - ... what is it in the high scale of the Almighty's workmanship ? a mere shred, which, though scattered into nothing, would leave the universe of God one entire scene of greatness and of majesty.