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The Philosophy of the Conditioned: Comprising Some Remarks on Sir William ... - Page 167
by Henry Longueville Mansel - 1866 - 189 pages
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1865 - 992 pages
...liable to be misunderstood. The whole of what Mr. Mill did say should have been given thus : — " If, instead of the ' glad tidings ' that there exists a Being in whom all the excellencies which the highest human mind can conceive, exist in a degree inconceivable to us, I am...
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The Philosophy of the Conditioned: Comprising Some Remarks on Sir William ...

Henry Longueville Mansel - 1866 - 214 pages
...Being. To believe in such a Being, is simply to believe that God made the world : to declare the L nature of such a Being inconceivable, is simply to...mind can conceive, exist in a degree inconceivable to ns, I am informed that the world is ruled by a being whose attributes are infinite, but what they are...
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The Church and the world, on questions of the day, essays by various writers ...

Church - 1866 - 568 pages
...this very book is devoted to the denial of free will. The passage referred to is as follows : — " If, instead of the ' glad tidings ' that there exists a Being in whom all the excellencies, which the highest human mind can conceive, exist in a degree inconceivable to us, I am...
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The Church and the World: Essays on Questions of the Day

Orby Shipley - Christianity - 1866 - 576 pages
...this very book is devoted to the denial of free will. The passage referred to ij as follows :— " If, instead of the ' glad tidings ' that there exists a Being in whom all the excellencies, which the highest human mind can conceive, exist in a degree inconceivable to us, I arn...
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Proceedings of the Literary & Philosophical Society of Liverpool, Issues 20-21

Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1867 - 546 pages
...a conviction that God's attributes are the same, in all but degree, with the best human attributes. If, instead of the 'glad tidings' that there exists a Being in whom all the excellencies which the highest human mind can conceive exist in a degree inconceivable to us, I am...
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Proceedings, Volume 20

Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1867 - 268 pages
...a conviction that God's attributes are the same, in all but degree, with the best human attributes. If, instead of the 'glad tidings' that there exists a Being in whom all the excellencies which the highest human mind can conceive exist in a degree inconceivable to us, I am...
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Review of the Work of Mr. John Stuart Mill Entitled 'Examination of Sir ...

George Grote - 1868 - 122 pages
...right to call them by the same name, and to apply to them, the same predicates, moral and intellectual. If, instead of the glad tidings that there exists...in whom all the excellences which the highest human form can conceive, exist in a degree inconceivable to us, I am informed that the world is ruled by...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volume 40; Volume 48

Henry Allon - Christianity - 1868 - 728 pages
...that God's attributes are the saшe, in all but degree, with the beкt human attributes. If, instend of the "glad tidings" that there exists a Being in whom all the excellencies which the highest human mind can conceive, exi.st in a degree inconceivable to us, I am...
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Planchette: Or, The Despair of Science

Epes Sargent - Psychology - 1869 - 412 pages
...right to call them by the same name and to apply to them the same predicates, moral and intellectual. If, instead of the glad tidings that there exists...Being in whom all the excellences which the highest mind can conceive, exist in a degree inconceivable to us, I am informed that the world is ruled by...
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On the Genesis of Species

St. George Jackson Mivart - Evolution - 1871 - 372 pages
...identify. Mr. John Stuart Mill, in his examination of " Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy," says :l " If I am informed that the world is ruled by a being whose attributes are infinite, but what they are \ve cannot learn, nor what the principles of his government, except that ' the highest human morality...
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