The Life of Benedict de Spinosa: Done Out of French. London, Printed by D. L. and Sold by Benj. Bragg, 1706M. Nijhoff, 1706 - 102 pagina's |
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The Life of Benedict de Spinosa: Done Out of French. London, Printed by D. L ... Johannes Colerus Volledige weergave - 1706 |
The Life of Benedict de Spinosa: Done Out of French. London, Printed by D. L ... Johannes Colerus Volledige weergave - 1706 |
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Affemblies affured againſt alfo Amfterdam amongſt Anael Angels whereof Anſwer Atheiſm Author becauſe Befides Bleffed Body Book call'd Caufe Cherem Chriftians Church confiderable confuted Converſations cou'd curfed death defign'd defired direction whereof Divinity Doctrine of Spinofa Dutch eaſily entituled eſtabliſhed Excommunication expreffes faid fame fays fecond fent feveral fhall fhews fhou'd firft firſt Florins folid fome fometimes France fuch Hague Halma happen'd himſelf Holy Houſe impious Interdiction Jews King of France laft laftly Landlord laſt learned leaſt Letter likewife Lord Minifter moft Monfieur Stoupe Month moſt mouth occafion pence Perfons Philofopher Pofthumous Portugueſe prefent Printed at Amfterdam Profeffor publiſhed Puniſh Rabbins Reaſon Religion reſpect ſay Schiedam ſeveral Sickneſs ſpeak ſpent Synagogue theſe words thing thofe thoſe Tractatus Theologico-Politicus Tranflated Treatife Treatife of Spinofa ufed underſtand Univerſe uſe Utrecht Vanden Ende Vander Spyck Voorburg wherein whereof is affigned whoſe Wittichius wou'd writ Zachariel
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Pagina 12 - If any man love not the Lord Jefus Chrift, " let him be anathema, Maranatha ;"|| than which no.
Pagina 37 - He answered, Your Religion is a good one, you need not look for another, nor doubt that you may be saved in it, provided, whilst you apply yourself to Piety, you live at the same time a peaceable and quiet Life.
Pagina 25 - God will .exterminate him and f hut him for ever out of his Houfe. Let God never forgive him his Sins. Let the wrath and indignation of the Lord furround him, and fmoak for ever upon his Head. Let all the Curfes contained in the Book of the Law fall upon him. Let God blot him out of his Book; let God feparate him to his own deftruction from all the tribes of Hrael, and give hem for his lot all the Curfes contained in the Book of the Law.
Pagina 36 - He wa never feen very melancholy, nor very merry. He had the command of his Anger, and if at any time he was uneafy in his mind, it did not appear outwardly; or if he happen'd to exprefs his grief by fome geftures, or by fome words, he never fail'd to retire immediately, for fear of doing an unbecoming thing.
Pagina 35 - Spinofa anfwer'd him, that a Man was never the better for having a finer Gown. To which he added, // is unreafonable to wrap up things of little or no value in a precious Cover.
Pagina 34 - He was very careful to cast up his accounts every quarter ; which he did, that he might spend neither more nor less than what he could spend every year. And he would say sometimes to the people of the house, that he was like the serpent, who forms a circle with his tail in his mouth, to denote that he had nothing left at the year's end.
Pagina 28 - ... and that he may get wherewith to maintain himfelf. This Rabbin Gamaliel does pofitively fay in the Treatife of the Talmuel Pirke avoth Chap. 2. where he teaches, that the ftudy of the Law is a very defirable thing, when it is attended with a...
Pagina 31 - Leyden, where he fpent all the Winter, and then he went to Voorburg, a league from the Hague, as he himfelf fays, in his 3oth Letter written to Peter Railing. He ' lived there, as I am informed, three or four years ; during which time, he got a great many Friends at the Hague, who were all diftinguifht by their Quality, or by Civil and Military Employments. They were often in his Company, and took a great delight in hearing him difcourfe. It was at their requeft that he fettl'd himfelf at the Hague...
Pagina 29 - ... Jews, and excommunicated by them. Becaufe they are wife and reafonable Maxims he made a good ufe of 'em, and learned a mechanical Art before he embraced a quiet and a retir'd Life, as he was refolv'd to do. He learned therefore to make Glafles for Telefcopes, and for fome other ufes, and fucceeded fo well therein, that People came to him from all Parts to buy them; which did fufficiently afford him wherewith to live and maintain himfelf. A confiderable number of thofe Glafles, which he had polif...
Pagina 5 - Aflemblies out of fuch a motive; because he was not a Hypocrite, and minded nothing but Truth. Monfieur Bayle tells us, That he happen'd one day to be aflaulted by a Jew, as he was coming out of the Playhoufe, who wounded him in the Face with a Knife, and that Spinofa knew that the Jew defign'd to kill him, tho his wound was not dangerous. But Spinofa's Landlord and his Wife, who are ftill living, give me quite another account of it. They had it from Spinofa himfelf, who did often tell them, that...