An Essay on the Origin of Evil, Volume 2F. Stephens, 1732 - 111 pagina's |
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Pagina 228
... whole Matter con- cerning Moral Evils more fully understood , we muft confider in the 1st Place , What the nature of Elections is . 2dly , That our Happiness chiefly depends upon Elections . 3dly , What kind of Elections may be faid to ...
... whole Matter con- cerning Moral Evils more fully understood , we muft confider in the 1st Place , What the nature of Elections is . 2dly , That our Happiness chiefly depends upon Elections . 3dly , What kind of Elections may be faid to ...
Pagina 236
... whole Series of things being as it things , were connected together by Fate , there's no Room anything for Chance or Liberty , properly fo call'd : Con- tingency then is removed out of Nature . nor could be done otherwife than it is ...
... whole Series of things being as it things , were connected together by Fate , there's no Room anything for Chance or Liberty , properly fo call'd : Con- tingency then is removed out of Nature . nor could be done otherwife than it is ...
Pagina 263
... whole Hypothefis . ( 48. ) F S4 NOTES . X. I ( 48. ) Farther , if the Mind can fufpend the Satisfaction of any urgent defire ( which Mr. Locke allows [ r . ] and therein places all its Liberty ) then it can as easily quite ftop , or run ...
... whole Hypothefis . ( 48. ) F S4 NOTES . X. I ( 48. ) Farther , if the Mind can fufpend the Satisfaction of any urgent defire ( which Mr. Locke allows [ r . ] and therein places all its Liberty ) then it can as easily quite ftop , or run ...
Pagina 269
... whole Man , nor was defign'd by our Au- thor to include all manner of external Objects , Actions , and Relations of things , as they feem to have understood it . For every Man in his Wits must be fufficiently fenfible that all things ...
... whole Man , nor was defign'd by our Au- thor to include all manner of external Objects , Actions , and Relations of things , as they feem to have understood it . For every Man in his Wits must be fufficiently fenfible that all things ...
Pagina 274
... whole , will be fhewn afterwards . Such an Agent cannot be determin- ed by his other Ap petites . XI . Hitherto we have either confider'd this Pow- er alone in the Agent , or as join'd with the Un- derstanding . But the Agent endow'd ...
... whole , will be fhewn afterwards . Such an Agent cannot be determin- ed by his other Ap petites . XI . Hitherto we have either confider'd this Pow- er alone in the Agent , or as join'd with the Un- derstanding . But the Agent endow'd ...
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Pagina 65 - 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.
Pagina 48 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Pagina 27 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Pagina 444 - ... we must, in this world, gain a relish of truth and virtue, if we would be able to taste that knowledge and perfection which are to make us happy in the next.
Pagina 444 - ... it is for us to gain habits of virtue in this life, if we would enjoy the pleasures of the next.
Pagina 9 - ... his senses, we do it by comparing it to something that already has, by offering him some similitude, resemblance, or analogy, to help his conception. As for example, to give a man a notion of a country to which he is a stranger, and to make him apprehend...
Pagina 1 - God, as it is in itself, is incomprehensible by human understanding ; and not only his nature, but likewise his powers and faculties, and the ways and methods in which he exercises them, are so far beyond our reach, that we are utterly incapable of framing exact and adequate notions of them.
Pagina 424 - ... 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...
Pagina 23 - ... analogy and proportion between them. But then we ought to remember that there is as great a difference between these, when attributed to God, and as they are in us, as between weighing in a balance and thinking ; in truth, infinitely greater...
Pagina 261 - I think, that the philosophers of old did in vain inquire, whether summum bonum consisted in riches, or bodily delights, or virtue, or contemplation; and they might have as reasonably disputed whether the best relish were to be found in apples, plums, or nuts, and have divided themselves into sects upon it.