The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over the inferior Creatures of God. For many have not only look’d upon it, as an impossible thing to compass, but as something impious to attempt.
ROBERT BOYLEThe gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of mans redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation.
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Our Saviour would love at no less rate than death; and from the supereminent height of glory, stooped and debased Himself to the sufferance of the extremest of indignities, and sunk himself to the bottom of abjectness, to exalt our condition to the contrary extreme.
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There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
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He that condescended so far, and stooped so low, to invite and bring us to heaven, will not refuse us a gracious reception there.
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God may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes.
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God is the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.
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It is not strange to me that persons of the fair sex should like, in all things about them, the handsomeness for which they find themselves most liked.
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Even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed.
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In an arch each single stone which, if severed from the rest, would be perhaps defenceless is sufficiently secured by the solidity and entireness of the whole fabric, of which it is a part.
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He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.
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Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air.
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The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of mans redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation.
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It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another’s learning.
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I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events to their Disposer.
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I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature.
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The generality of men are so accustomed to judge of things by their senses that, because the air is indivisible, they ascribe but little to it, and think it but one remove from nothing.
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