The Philosophical Works of the Late Right Honorable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, Tom 1David Mallet, 1754 - 379 |
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Strona 48
... physical knowledge ; but the latter must never proceed independently of the former . Experiment is that pillar of fire , which can alone conduct us to the promised land and they , they , who lofe fight of it , lose themselves 48 ...
... physical knowledge ; but the latter must never proceed independently of the former . Experiment is that pillar of fire , which can alone conduct us to the promised land and they , they , who lofe fight of it , lose themselves 48 ...
Strona 50
... physical researches by the fhining phænomena of the heavens , than by thofe of the earth . Their wants forced them to look down ; but as the most immediate immediate of these were fupplied , they began to look 50 PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS ...
... physical researches by the fhining phænomena of the heavens , than by thofe of the earth . Their wants forced them to look down ; but as the most immediate immediate of these were fupplied , they began to look 50 PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS ...
Strona 65
... physical and mechanical causes , by matter and motion . This DES CARTES therefore endeavoured , and might endeavour to do without forfeiting the character of a good theift . Philofophers might very reasonably object to his hypothefis ...
... physical and mechanical causes , by matter and motion . This DES CARTES therefore endeavoured , and might endeavour to do without forfeiting the character of a good theift . Philofophers might very reasonably object to his hypothefis ...
Strona 67
... physical province , instead of being trans- lated to a metaphyfical region , appears to me not only useful , but neceffary to be preferyed , as well to advance real knowledge , as to prevent error , both philosophical and theological ...
... physical province , instead of being trans- lated to a metaphyfical region , appears to me not only useful , but neceffary to be preferyed , as well to advance real knowledge , as to prevent error , both philosophical and theological ...
Strona 68
... physical researches . When we proceed in the investigation of them by the help of expe- rimental philofophy , we put ourselves under the conduct of God , who leads us , by the knowledge of his works , to the knowledge of himself . But ...
... physical researches . When we proceed in the investigation of them by the help of expe- rimental philofophy , we put ourselves under the conduct of God , who leads us , by the knowledge of his works , to the knowledge of himself . But ...
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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.