Reflections on the late Lord Bolingbroke's Letters on the Study and Use of History; especially so far as they relate to Christianity and the Scriptures. To which are added observations on some passages in those letters concerning the consequences of the late revolution, etcR. Main, 1753 - 167 sider |
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Side 7 - No man suffers by bad fortune but he who has been deceived by good. If we grow fond of her gifts, fancy that they belong to...
Side 7 - Not only a love of study, and a desire of knowledge, must have grown up with us ; but such an industrious application likewise, as requires the whole vigour of the mind to be exerted in the pursuit of truth through long trains. of ideas and all those dark recesses wherein man, not God, has hid it.
Side 6 - Is it not worth our while to approve or condemn, on our own authority, what we receive in the beginning of life on the authority of other men, who were not then better able to judge for us, than we are now to judge for ourselves?
Side 80 - ... power, and be fupported by the forcible influence of education : but the proper force of religion, that force which fubdues the mind and awes the confcience by conviction, will be wanting.
Side 21 - ... of hard words, and take a great deal of other grammatical pains. The obligation to these men would be great indeed, if they were in general able to do any thing better, and submitted to this drudgery for the sake of the public: as some of them, it must be owned with gratitude, have done, but not later, I think, than about the time of the resurrection of letters.
Side 17 - Bodin would conduct us in the same, or as bad a way; would leave us no time for action, or would make us unfit for it. A huge common-place book, wherein all the remarkable sayings and facts that we find in history are to be registered, may enable a man to talk or write like Bodin, but will never make him a better man, nor enable him to promote, like an...
Side 118 - Chrift, who was the author of the Chriftian religion, and appeared in Judea in the reign of Tiberius. Tacitus's teftimony, as well as that of Celfus, is very exprefs to this purpofe*. And fome of the heathens went fo far as to fpeak very honourably of him.
Side 13 - To conclude, as experience is conversant about the present, and the present enables us to guess at the future; so history is conversant about the past, and by knowing the things that have been, we become better able to judge of the things that are.
Side 56 - Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice ; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.