The Works of Lord Bolingbroke: With a Life, Prepared Expressly for this Edition, Containing Additional Information Relative to His Personal and Public Character, Volumen3Carey and Hart, 1841 |
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... pretended mark of divinity may be ascribed therefore , if it be one , to pagan phi- losophy , but it cannot be so to Jewish theology ; and , I cannot help using an expression of one of these declaimers , who write as if they were ...
... pretended mark of divinity may be ascribed therefore , if it be one , to pagan phi- losophy , but it cannot be so to Jewish theology ; and , I cannot help using an expression of one of these declaimers , who write as if they were ...
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... pretends to be revealed and enacted by God , is mere cant . To apply these reflections the more strongly , it will be proper to consider the law of Moses , relatively to the first of the perfec- tions mentioned , as a law given to the ...
... pretends to be revealed and enacted by God , is mere cant . To apply these reflections the more strongly , it will be proper to consider the law of Moses , relatively to the first of the perfec- tions mentioned , as a law given to the ...
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... pretends to show me in them ; and then stops me in this examination , by assuming the very thing that is in question ? There are many appearances , no doubt , in the physical and moral systems which may pass for mysteries , because we ...
... pretends to show me in them ; and then stops me in this examination , by assuming the very thing that is in question ? There are many appearances , no doubt , in the physical and moral systems which may pass for mysteries , because we ...
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... pretended science of this kind must be barren of knowledge , and may be fruitful of error , as the Persian magic was , if it proceeded on the faint analogy that may be discovered between physics and politics , and deduced the rules of ...
... pretended science of this kind must be barren of knowledge , and may be fruitful of error , as the Persian magic was , if it proceeded on the faint analogy that may be discovered between physics and politics , and deduced the rules of ...
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... pretended , as you and I , and all the sons of Adam . The former , however , deserved some excuse : the latter none . The former made a very ill use of their reason , no doubt , when they presumed to dogmatise about the divine na- ture ...
... pretended , as you and I , and all the sons of Adam . The former , however , deserved some excuse : the latter none . The former made a very ill use of their reason , no doubt , when they presumed to dogmatise about the divine na- ture ...
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Página 335 - Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things, ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Página 28 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, So that I come again to my father's house in peace ; then shall the Lord be my God : and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house : and of all that thou shalt give me, I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Página 431 - But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God . 4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.
Página 126 - For example, does it not require some pains and skill to form the general idea of a triangle ? (which is yet none of the most abstract comprehensive and difficult) ; for it must be neither oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon, but all and none of these at once.
Página 174 - ... years continued us in such a state, can and will restore us to the like state of sensibility in another world, and make us capable there to receive the retribution he has designed to men according to their doings in this life.
Página 463 - In principio erat Verbum et Verbum erat apud Deum ; et Deus erat Verbum : hoc erat in principio apud Deum.
Página 51 - Rather than creep up slowly, a posteriori, to a little general knowledge, they soar at once as far and as high as imagination can carry them. From thence they descend again, armed with systems and arguments a priori; and, regardless how these agree or clash with the phenomena of Nature, they impose them on mankind.
Página 184 - That he should be in earnest it is hard to conceive ; since any reasons of doubt •which he might have in this case would have been reasons of doubt in the case of other men, who may give more, but cannot give more evident, signs...
Página 174 - ... since we know not wherein thinking consists, nor to what sort of substances the Almighty has been pleased to give that power, which cannot be in any created being, but merely by the good pleasure and bounty of the Creator. For I see no contradiction in it, that the first eternal thinking being should, if he pleased, give to certain systems of created senseless matter, put together as he thinks fit, some degrees of sense, perception, and thought: though, as I think, I have proved, lib.
Página 127 - Words are the Counters of wise men, and the Money of fools...