The Philosophical Works of the Late Right Honorable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, Tom 1David Mallet, 1754 - 379 |
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... metaphysical theology , have no inten- tion to be understood in a literal fenfe among men who preserve their reason . If they had , they fhould never be employed by me , fince I fhould think them profane as well as prefumptuous . I ...
... metaphysical theology , have no inten- tion to be understood in a literal fenfe among men who preserve their reason . If they had , they fhould never be employed by me , fince I fhould think them profane as well as prefumptuous . I ...
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... metaphysics , to be like an higher ground , from which we might defcend to phyfics , from gene- rals to particulars , from speculations about what may be , down to affirmations about what is . But there have been men fince the ...
... metaphysics , to be like an higher ground , from which we might defcend to phyfics , from gene- rals to particulars , from speculations about what may be , down to affirmations about what is . But there have been men fince the ...
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... metaphysical sense , that they are really what they are ; but in this fenfe , that they are t ue reprefentations of actual , or of fuch poffible VOL , I. existence , G existence , as experience leaves us no room to doubt Efay I ...
... metaphysical sense , that they are really what they are ; but in this fenfe , that they are t ue reprefentations of actual , or of fuch poffible VOL , I. existence , G existence , as experience leaves us no room to doubt Efay I ...
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... , let us return to them as to the oracles of truth . For want of doing one or the other , into what extravagant opinions , under 1 under the specious names of metaphysical , or theological science 88 PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS . Effay I.
... , let us return to them as to the oracles of truth . For want of doing one or the other , into what extravagant opinions , under 1 under the specious names of metaphysical , or theological science 88 PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS . Effay I.
Strona 89
Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount). under the specious names of metaphysical , or theological science , have not men been carried ? You give us philofophy in a poetical drefs . You adorn , but do not disguise , and much less corrupt ...
Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount). under the specious names of metaphysical , or theological science , have not men been carried ? You give us philofophy in a poetical drefs . You adorn , but do not disguise , and much less corrupt ...
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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.
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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.