The Works of Lord Bolingbroke: With a Life, Prepared Expressly for this Edition, Containing Additional Information Relative to His Personal and Public Character, Tom 3Carey and Hart, 1841 |
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... doctrines from the Egyp- tians , who taught them very early , and yet not so early , perhaps , as they taught that ... doctrine was part of the Jewish system , are too modern to * Vide Abbadie . prove it , and they admit , besides , of ...
... doctrines from the Egyp- tians , who taught them very early , and yet not so early , perhaps , as they taught that ... doctrine was part of the Jewish system , are too modern to * Vide Abbadie . prove it , and they admit , besides , of ...
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... doctrines , which have been imposed in the dark ages of ignorance , continue to be the opinions , and doctrines of ages enlightened by philosophy and learning . If I was a phi- losopher , says Montaigne , I would naturalise art ...
... doctrines , which have been imposed in the dark ages of ignorance , continue to be the opinions , and doctrines of ages enlightened by philosophy and learning . If I was a phi- losopher , says Montaigne , I would naturalise art ...
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... doctrines , and even mere forms of speech , without examination , or to examine only in order to defend them . By both , they become philosophers as men became Christians in the primitive church , or as they deter- mined themselves ...
... doctrines , and even mere forms of speech , without examination , or to examine only in order to defend them . By both , they become philosophers as men became Christians in the primitive church , or as they deter- mined themselves ...
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... doctrines as unworthy of the Supreme all - perfect Being , as those which the heathens taught concerning their fictitious , and inferior gods . Is it necessary to quote any other than that , by which we are * Erasmus . t -jam pudet me ...
... doctrines as unworthy of the Supreme all - perfect Being , as those which the heathens taught concerning their fictitious , and inferior gods . Is it necessary to quote any other than that , by which we are * Erasmus . t -jam pudet me ...
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... doctrines , which nobody understands , are revealed to nobody , and are therefore improper objects of human inquiry . We know too , that if we receive the explanations and commentaries of these dark sayings from the clergy , we take the ...
... doctrines , which nobody understands , are revealed to nobody , and are therefore improper objects of human inquiry . We know too , that if we receive the explanations and commentaries of these dark sayings from the clergy , we take the ...
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Strona 335 - Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things, ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Strona 28 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, So that I come again to my father's house in peace ; then shall the Lord be my God : and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house : and of all that thou shalt give me, I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Strona 431 - But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God . 4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.
Strona 126 - For example, does it not require some pains and skill to form the general idea of a triangle ? (which is yet none of the most abstract comprehensive and difficult) ; for it must be neither oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon, but all and none of these at once.
Strona 174 - ... years continued us in such a state, can and will restore us to the like state of sensibility in another world, and make us capable there to receive the retribution he has designed to men according to their doings in this life.
Strona 463 - In principio erat Verbum et Verbum erat apud Deum ; et Deus erat Verbum : hoc erat in principio apud Deum.
Strona 51 - Rather than creep up slowly, a posteriori, to a little general knowledge, they soar at once as far and as high as imagination can carry them. From thence they descend again, armed with systems and arguments a priori; and, regardless how these agree or clash with the phenomena of Nature, they impose them on mankind.
Strona 184 - That he should be in earnest it is hard to conceive ; since any reasons of doubt •which he might have in this case would have been reasons of doubt in the case of other men, who may give more, but cannot give more evident, signs...
Strona 174 - ... since we know not wherein thinking consists, nor to what sort of substances the Almighty has been pleased to give that power, which cannot be in any created being, but merely by the good pleasure and bounty of the Creator. For I see no contradiction in it, that the first eternal thinking being should, if he pleased, give to certain systems of created senseless matter, put together as he thinks fit, some degrees of sense, perception, and thought: though, as I think, I have proved, lib.
Strona 127 - Words are the Counters of wise men, and the Money of fools...