 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Metaphysics - 1777 - 392 pages
...cavil. The latter only grows inconfiftent; for I would afk him, if there are any fuch providences, why not more ? He admits enough to break through and overturn the natural order and conftitution of the phyfical and moral fyftem. How comes it to pafs that there are not enough. to flop... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1841 - 540 pages
...pretence to cavil. The latter only grows inconsistent: for I would ask him, if there any such providences, why not more? He admits enough to break through and...of the Bible, nor in our own experience, sufficient grounds to establish the doctrine of particular providences, and to reconcile it to that of a general... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1841 - 550 pages
...pretence to cavil. The latter only grows inconsistent: for I would ask him, if there any such providences, why not more? He admits enough to break through and...of the Bible, nor in our own experience, sufficient grounds to establish the doctrine of particular providences, and to reconcile it to that of a general... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1841 - 544 pages
...pretence to cavil. The latter only grows inconsistent: for I would ask him, if there any snch providences, why not more? He admits enough to break through and...of the Bible, nor in our own experience, sufficient grounds to establish the doctrine of particular providences, and to reconcile it to that of a general... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1993 - 412 pages
...in his Vindication of Natural Society offered an ad 7 Bolingbroke, Works, 6 vols. (1754), v, p. 414: 'The truth is that we have not in philosophical speculation,...of the Bible, nor in our own experience, sufficient grounds to establish the doctrine of particular providences.' hominem formula. It suggested that if... | |
 | Michael Bentley - History - 2002 - 376 pages
...which is sufficient for the purpose, than to assume a dispensation of particular providences . . . The truth is that we have not in philosophical speculation,...of the Bible, nor in our own experience, sufficient grounds to establish the doctrine of particular providences, and to reconcile it with that of a general... | |
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The truth is, that we have not in philosophical speculation, in any history except that of the Bible, nor in our own experience, sufficient grounds to establish the doctrine of particular providences, and to reconcile it to that of a general providence,... 