If anything should happen to Elsie, it would be the most natural thing in the world that his uncle should adopt him, his nephew and only near relation, as his heir.

They wish to repeal universal laws, and to patch our natural skins for us, as if they always wanted mending.

"Natura est instrumentum Divinae operationis," might be taken as the motto for his whole system of natural science.

The numbness and cold in their physical natures seemed to have reached the soul, and to have crushed out natural feeling and affection.

Her name was Lorena Sears, and she had come in with one of the late trains of converts, without friends, relatives, or means, with nothing but her natural gifts and an abiding faith in the saving powers of the new dispensation.

And then the Lord would visit so plumb natural and commonlike with Moseslike tellin' him, 'I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob by the name of God Almighty, for by my name Jehovah was I not known unto them.'

We know that their destruction was the natural consequence of their own folly.

The curse which he foretold was the natural consequence of the sins of the nation.

Why are we not to believe that he considered it as such? Why are we not to believe that the Bible meaning of a curse, is simply the natural ill-consequence of men's own ill-actions?

We know that they are good in their places, and do good, as all God's creatures are and do; and there is room enough in the world for them and us: but we have a natural dislike to them, and cannot help it; and so with these people.

It is natural to us; and why blame us for it.

Saying that it is natural to us.

But unless that natural feeling had been in most of us conquered by the grace of God, which is the spirit of justice and of love, then England would have remained alone in conceit and ignorance, hated by all the nations; instead of being what, thank God!

It is natural, and according to the brute nature of the old Adam, to dislike this person and that, just because they do not suit us.

Shall they be to us, even if they be odd or disagreeable in some thingsshall they be to us as the beetle or the spider, or any other merely natural things?

What he was, he will not forget, he dare not forget, lest he should forget that the good which he does, he does notfor in him (that is, in his flesh, his own natural character), dwelleth no good thingbut Christ, who dwells in him; lest he should grow puffed up, careless, self-indulgent; lest he should neglect to subdue his evil passions; and so, after having preached to others, himself become a castaway.

They also indicated her capacity for imaginative insight into the motives and impulses of human nature, and an intuitive comprehension of what is most natural to human thought and action.

In his Philosophy of Necessity, published in 1841, he maintained that the only reality is the Great Unknown which we name God, that all natural laws are actions of the first cause.

Evil is the natural and necessary limitation of our faculties, and our consequent liability to error; and pain, which we call evil, is its corrective.

The conscious intelligence of the universe has subsided into natural law, and acts automatically.

But faith in the kingdom of heaven is one with faith in God; the context of both ideas is the same; God is pure absolute subjectivity released from all natural limits; he is what individuals ought to be and will be; faith in God is therefore the faith of man in the infinitude and truth of his own nature; the Divine Being is the subjective human being in his absolute freedom and unlimitedness.

He applies this idea to the conception of natural law, and declares it to be only the persistence of phenomena; that is, the persistence of feeling.

It is because we have common emotions, common experiences, common aspirations, that we are really able to understand man; and not because of statistics, natural history, sociology or psychology.

What more natural than that Charlton should seize upon Smith Westcott's land-warrant, and thus help himself and retard his rival?

Does it not seem natural to extend the hand to a friend when, with affectionate surprise, we exclaim: "How are you, dear friend?"