The Philosophical Works of the Late Right Honorable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, Tom 1David Mallet, 1754 - 379 |
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... existence of a God is demonstrated ; and cavil against demon- stration is impertinent . It is fo impertinent , that he who refuses to fubmit to this demonstration , among others of the fame kind , has but one short step more to make in ...
... existence of a God is demonstrated ; and cavil against demon- stration is impertinent . It is fo impertinent , that he who refuses to fubmit to this demonstration , among others of the fame kind , has but one short step more to make in ...
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... existence of fuch a Being can be demonstrated , the atheist and the divine are both defeated . The atheift , because the intelligence of this first cause of all things must have preceded all existence , except his own , with which it is ...
... existence of fuch a Being can be demonstrated , the atheist and the divine are both defeated . The atheift , because the intelligence of this first cause of all things must have preceded all existence , except his own , with which it is ...
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... existence there , the mind is often able to will them into existence again , by an act , of which we are confcious , but of which we know nothing more , than that the mind performs it . These phenomena are more furprizing , and lefs to ...
... existence there , the mind is often able to will them into existence again , by an act , of which we are confcious , but of which we know nothing more , than that the mind performs it . These phenomena are more furprizing , and lefs to ...
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... existence ; which regard will be always preferved , unless the mind be difordered . The mind then has a power of framing all the dif- ferent compofitions , and combinations of ideas , about which thefe fciences are converfant : but yet ...
... existence ; which regard will be always preferved , unless the mind be difordered . The mind then has a power of framing all the dif- ferent compofitions , and combinations of ideas , about which thefe fciences are converfant : but yet ...
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... existence , our intellect is of little use . It may be faid , it will be faid , that our knowledge of the heavenly bodies is brought to a great degree of perfection , and is going on daily to a greater , by the inceffant labors of many ...
... existence , our intellect is of little use . It may be faid , it will be faid , that our knowledge of the heavenly bodies is brought to a great degree of perfection , and is going on daily to a greater , by the inceffant labors of many ...
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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.