 Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.  The Philosophy of Rhetoric - Strona 57autor: George Campbell - 1849 - Liczba stron: 455Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | 1815 - Liczba stron: 558
...velocities. Mr. Leibnitz proposes two principles as the foundation of all our knowledge; the first, that it is impossible for a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time, which, he says is the foundation of speculative truth; and secondly, that nothing is without a sufficient... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1815 - Liczba stron: 552
...velocities. Mr. Leibnitz proposes two principles as the foundation of all our knowledge ; the first, that it is impossible for a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time, which, he says is the foundation of speculative truth ; and secondly, that nothing is without a sufficient... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1815 - Liczba stron: 558
...velocities. Mr. Leibnitz proposes two principles as the foundation of all our knowledge ; the first, that it is impossible for a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time, which, he says is the foundation of speculative truth; and secondly, that nothing is without a sufficient... | |
 | Samuel Seabury - 1815 - Liczba stron: 316
...a contradiction in itself, or to his own holy nature. We hesitate not to say, that God cannot make a thing to be and not to be, at the same time ; or to be both true and false under the same circumstances ; because, being and not being, truth and... | |
 | Seth Williston - 1817 - Liczba stron: 284
...Almighty is in the J that he cannot perform contradictions. It is not an object ol power, to cause a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time. No increase of power has the least tendency to produce this contradiction. But every thing which -is... | |
 | Seth Williston - 1817 - Liczba stron: 274
...least ^,ce Jiir.hed, that he cannot perform contradictions. It is not an object ot power, to cause a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time. No increase of power has the least •cndeniy to produce this contr.u1ic.iion. But every itiing which... | |
 | John Witherspoon - 1822 - Liczba stron: 308
...common to say that God can do all things, except, such as imply a contradiction — such, as to make a thing to be and not to be at the same time ; but this is unnecessary and foolish in the way of an exception, for such things are not the objects... | |
 | Samuel Whelpley - 1822 - Liczba stron: 578
...lie cannot work contradictions ; that he cannot cause two and two to be five ; that he cannot cause a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time ; but that he can cause a thing to be at one time, and not be at another, involves no absurdity. Let... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - Liczba stron: 578
...essence remains without the essence, that is, without itself:' — The other, that ' this doctrine makes a thing to be and not to be, at the same time :' I shall use them both, but promiscuously, because they are reducible to one. 11. The doctrine of... | |
 | James Murdock - 1823 - Liczba stron: 316
...belongs to omnipotence to give to error, the effect of truth, on the minds of free agents, than to cause a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time. A law without rewards or punishments, cannot be made as influential on moral beings, as a law with... | |
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