The Philosophical Works of the Late Right Honorable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, Tom 1David Mallet, 1754 - 379 |
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Strona 135
... mysteries of their science in vulgar language , with condefcen- fion to our grofs conceptions , that would never comprehend them if they were kept in their na- tive abstraction , inftead of being clothed with ideas that fall under the ...
... mysteries of their science in vulgar language , with condefcen- fion to our grofs conceptions , that would never comprehend them if they were kept in their na- tive abstraction , inftead of being clothed with ideas that fall under the ...
Strona 146
... mystery , poe- try , and love ; and where he gives the preference over all other wisdom to that which divine fury infuses . Now nothing could resemble more a heathen , than a jewish vaticination ; and no wonder is there that it should ...
... mystery , poe- try , and love ; and where he gives the preference over all other wisdom to that which divine fury infuses . Now nothing could resemble more a heathen , than a jewish vaticination ; and no wonder is there that it should ...
Strona 153
... mystery , it was believed , he faid but as foon as divines had been so unskilful as to attempt to explain it ... mystery , and was piously believed , till attempts to explain it fhewed that it implied contradiction . The other fet out as ...
... mystery , it was believed , he faid but as foon as divines had been so unskilful as to attempt to explain it ... mystery , and was piously believed , till attempts to explain it fhewed that it implied contradiction . The other fet out as ...
Strona 154
... mystery , where the other began : and this expedient , the only one that can fupport it at all , would sup- port it effectually , if thefe ages refembled a little better those wherein the belief of the real pre- fence was first ...
... mystery , where the other began : and this expedient , the only one that can fupport it at all , would sup- port it effectually , if thefe ages refembled a little better those wherein the belief of the real pre- fence was first ...
Strona 155
... mystery if it could : and inspiration is become a mystery , fince all we know of it is , that it is an inexplicable ac- tion of the divine on the human mind . It would be filly , therefore , to affume it to be true , because God can act ...
... mystery if it could : and inspiration is become a mystery , fince all we know of it is , that it is an inexplicable ac- tion of the divine on the human mind . It would be filly , therefore , to affume it to be true , because God can act ...
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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.