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... should purfue a method which is apt to fucceed in moft cafes ; if he knows it will fail in this : an inquifitive person who takes all the attributes of God together , and contemplates the whole plan of Providence , will hardly judge it ...
... should purfue a method which is apt to fucceed in moft cafes ; if he knows it will fail in this : an inquifitive person who takes all the attributes of God together , and contemplates the whole plan of Providence , will hardly judge it ...
Page xviii
... well favoured in the fciences themselves ; - that they should ufurp the place of thofe very fciences to which they were originally defigned to be fubfer- vient , vent , and for which ftation they were fufficiently qua- xviii PREFACE .
... well favoured in the fciences themselves ; - that they should ufurp the place of thofe very fciences to which they were originally defigned to be fubfer- vient , vent , and for which ftation they were fufficiently qua- xviii PREFACE .
Page xli
... should be fuch . Here then we are got one step farther , or to a new criterion : not to a new crite- rion of virtue immediately , but to a criterion of the will of God . For it is an answer to the enquiry , How shall I know what the ...
... should be fuch . Here then we are got one step farther , or to a new criterion : not to a new crite- rion of virtue immediately , but to a criterion of the will of God . For it is an answer to the enquiry , How shall I know what the ...
Page xli
... should be grateful to a benefactor , or pity the diftreffed , yet if the grateful or compaffionate mind never thought of that reason , it is no reason to him . The enquiry is not why he ought to be grateful , but why he is fo . Thele ...
... should be grateful to a benefactor , or pity the diftreffed , yet if the grateful or compaffionate mind never thought of that reason , it is no reason to him . The enquiry is not why he ought to be grateful , but why he is fo . Thele ...
Page xlix
... must o- blige us to an action when we can fee no farther reafon for it and it is highly neceffary and fit it should . Our knowledge knowledge of the nature of ourselves , and those about On Morality and Religion . xliz IN ...
... must o- blige us to an action when we can fee no farther reafon for it and it is highly neceffary and fit it should . Our knowledge knowledge of the nature of ourselves , and those about On Morality and Religion . xliz IN ...
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Page 417 - And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Page 432 - Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page 98 - Existence is a blessing to those beings only which are endowed with perception ; and is in a manner thrown away upon dead matter, any farther than as it is subservient to beings which are conscious of their existence.
Page 427 - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field: upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Page 130 - Labour or exercise ferments the humours, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigour, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
Page xxxi - ... the consideration of these four sorts of obligation (which are the only ones) it is evident that a full and complete obligation which will extend to all cases, can only be that arising from the authority of God; because God only can in all cases make a man happy or miserable: and therefore, since we are always obliged to that conformity called virtue, it is evident that the immediate rule or criterion of it, is the will of God. The...
Page 179 - So that the idea of liberty is the idea of a power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind, whereby either of them is preferred to the other...
Page xxvi - ... whenever this end is not perceived, they are to be accounted for from the association of ideas and may properly enough be called habits.
Page 331 - ... but they surprise and come upon us from we know not what quarter. If they proceeded from the mobility of spirits, straggling out of order, and fortuitous affections of the brain, or were of the nature of dreams, why are they not as wild, incoherent, and extravagant as they are? Not to add, that the world has generally acknowledged, and therefore...
Page 83 - Had he only made one species of animals, none of the rest would have enjoyed the happiness of existence; he has, therefore, specified in his creation every degree of life, every capacity of being. The whole...