A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With Reflections on Atheistical Philosophy, Now Exemplified in France, Bind 6T. Becket, 1794 |
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Side 14
... precepts , to be true , who employs his life in la- bouring to prove it false ? The Apostle of the Gentiles , I believe it is generally allowed , was not a weak man . I Those were were not weak men , who taught a system of 14 LETTER XC .
... precepts , to be true , who employs his life in la- bouring to prove it false ? The Apostle of the Gentiles , I believe it is generally allowed , was not a weak man . I Those were were not weak men , who taught a system of 14 LETTER XC .
Side 31
... allowed him of a most pure , a most holy , a most disinterested , and as- suredly a most unexampled impostor . In what manner , supposing him such , could he have rea soned with himself ? The Jews , he must have said , are in ...
... allowed him of a most pure , a most holy , a most disinterested , and as- suredly a most unexampled impostor . In what manner , supposing him such , could he have rea soned with himself ? The Jews , he must have said , are in ...
Side 59
... allowed to those who chuse to follow deduc- tions , originally , perhaps , taken from appear- ances in created beings . Examine , for instance , the little microcosm , man , and you will find three distinct powers in his nature : one ...
... allowed to those who chuse to follow deduc- tions , originally , perhaps , taken from appear- ances in created beings . Examine , for instance , the little microcosm , man , and you will find three distinct powers in his nature : one ...
Side 72
... allow them to be good . citizens and politicians ; since they free them from one restraint upon their passions , and make the nfringement of the laws of equity and society , in one respect , more easy and secure . " * Lord Bolingbroke ...
... allow them to be good . citizens and politicians ; since they free them from one restraint upon their passions , and make the nfringement of the laws of equity and society , in one respect , more easy and secure . " * Lord Bolingbroke ...
Side 73
... allow , most formidable adversaries in the field of argu- ment . Our next inquiries call us a different way . There is no bias in human nature more preva- lent , than a desire to anticipate futurity . In dark ages , that desire was ...
... allow , most formidable adversaries in the field of argu- ment . Our next inquiries call us a different way . There is no bias in human nature more preva- lent , than a desire to anticipate futurity . In dark ages , that desire was ...
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Side 20 - And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
Side 24 - So shall he sprinkle many nations ; The kings shall shut their mouths at him : For that which had not been told them shall they see; And that which they had not heard shall they consider.
Side 371 - To be of no Church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by Faith and Hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
Side 39 - For first, there is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education, and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves; of such undoubted integrity, as to place them beyond all suspicion of any design to deceive others; of such credit and reputation in the eyes of mankind, as to have a great deal to lose in case of their being detected in any falsehood; and at the same time, attesting facts performed in...
Side 68 - And though it is said, this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality...
Side 20 - But when ye shall hear of wars, and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.
Side 20 - If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee ; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another ; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
Side 115 - Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it, 45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
Side 40 - It is experience only which gives authority to human testimony; and it is the same experience which assures us of the laws of nature. When, therefore, these two kinds of experience are contrary, we have nothing to do but to subtract the one from the other, and embrace an opinion either on one side or the other, with that assurance which arises from the remainder.
Side 300 - ... all that toil, all that anxiety, all those mortifications, which must be undergone in the pursuit of it, and, what is of yet more consequence, all that leisure, all that ease, all that careless security, which are forfeited forever by the acquisition.