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Page 244 - But the only distinct meaning of that word is, stated, fixed, or settled: since what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, ie to effect it continually, or at stated times; as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once. And from hence it must follow that persons...
Page 245 - Kingdom, with this qualification, that he shall not, when within the limits of the foreign State of which he was a subject previously to obtaining his certificate of naturalization, be deemed to be a British subject unless he has ceased to be a subject of that State in pursuance of the laws thereof, or in pursuance of a treaty to that effect.
Page 269 - The navigation of the river Mississippi, from its source to the ocean, shall for ever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States.
Page 93 - The initiated do not learn anything so much as feel certain emotions and are put in a certain frame of mind'.
Page 39 - Had Prince Charles slept during the whole of the expedition, and allowed Lord George Murray to act for him according to his own judgment, there is every reason for supposing he would have found the crown of Great Britain on his head when he awoke.
Page 57 - A museum is like a living organism — it requires continual and tender care. It must grow, or it will perish; and the cost and labour required to maintain it in a state of vitality is not yet by any means fully realised or provided for, either in our great national establishments or in our smaller local institutions.
Page 244 - Nor is there any absurdity in. supposing, that there may be beings in the universe, whose capacities, and knowledge, and views, may be so extensive, as that the whole Christian dispensation may to them appear natural, ie analogous or conformable to God's dealings with other parts of his creation ; as natural as the visible known course of things appears to us.
Page 36 - Virgin, the Infant Saviour, and the Infant St John. The remaining eight are considered Murillo's masterpieces. They consist of Moses striking the Rock, the Return of the Prodigal, Abraham receiving the Three Angels...
Page 160 - the negation of God erected into a system of government.
Page 104 - When the attention of a man in the myth-making stage of intellect is drawn to any phenomenon or custom which has to him no obvious reason, he invents and tells a story to account for it.