The Philosophical Works of the Late Right Honorable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, Tom 1David Mallet, 1754 - 379 |
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... substances ; and that it is abfurd to ascribe power to bodies , or to fup- pofe any power but active power , any agent but fpirit , or any actions of spirit without volition ? WHO does not fee all this to be as inconceiv- able , as that ...
... substances ; and that it is abfurd to ascribe power to bodies , or to fup- pofe any power but active power , any agent but fpirit , or any actions of spirit without volition ? WHO does not fee all this to be as inconceiv- able , as that ...
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... substances , that he might employ one or the other as his fyftem required . If you confult other philofophers on the same subject , you will receive no more fatisfaction : and the only reasonable method we can take , is to be con- tent ...
... substances , that he might employ one or the other as his fyftem required . If you confult other philofophers on the same subject , you will receive no more fatisfaction : and the only reasonable method we can take , is to be con- tent ...
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... helps us to walk where we cannot run , and to hobble where we cannot walk . She takes us by the hand , and leads us by experience to art . NATURE NATURE then has united in diftinct substances , as we 28 PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS . Effay Í .
... helps us to walk where we cannot run , and to hobble where we cannot walk . She takes us by the hand , and leads us by experience to art . NATURE NATURE then has united in diftinct substances , as we 28 PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS . Effay Í .
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... substances still more composed , that is , fubftances wherein a greater variety of thefe qualities co - exifts , are fitted to raise in us ; such , for inftance , as the idea of a man , or an horse . As foon as we are born , various ...
... substances still more composed , that is , fubftances wherein a greater variety of thefe qualities co - exifts , are fitted to raise in us ; such , for inftance , as the idea of a man , or an horse . As foon as we are born , various ...
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... substance and of mode or manner of being , as of two ideas that may be perceived feparately , the one of a thing ... substance is nothing more , than a com- bination of feveral fenfible ideas which determine the apparent nature of it to ...
... substance and of mode or manner of being , as of two ideas that may be perceived feparately , the one of a thing ... substance is nothing more , than a com- bination of feveral fenfible ideas which determine the apparent nature of it to ...
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Strona 94 - Bred to think as well as speak by rote, they furnish their minds, as they furnish their houses, or clothe their bodies, with the fancies of other men, and according to the mode of the age and country. They pick up their ideas and notions in common conversation, or in their schools. The first are always superficial, and both are commonly false.
Strona 302 - The whole world appears, as soon as we come into historical light, overrun with them. The vulgar embrace them easily, even after the true doctrine of a divine unity has been taught and received...
Strona 287 - Plato imagined, after more ancient philosophers, that every man is born with a certain reminiscence, and that when we seem to be taught, we are only put in mind of what we knew in a former state.