On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as Manifested in the Adaptation of External Nature, to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of ManCarey, Lea & Blanchard, 1833 - 308 páginas |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
actual affirm anger animal antitheism appetite argument ascer astronomy awaken beauty beneficence beneficial benevolence Bishop Butler bosom cause character collocations compassion connexion conscience creatures Deity demonstration desire distinct divine Dugald Stewart economy emotion enjoyment evidence evil existence external nature faculty felt force former Godhead gratification hand happiness heart human imagination important inflicted instance instinctive intellectual jurisprudence justice labour least lence man's material matter mechanism ment mental constitution mind moral character moral constitution moral nature natural theology nature's ness object observation operation original pain palpable passion peculiar phenomena philosophy physical pleasure possessory feeling present principle question racter regard respect righteousness sensations sense sensible sentiment Sir James Mackintosh society special affections species spect spirit strength suffering taste theism things Thomas Brown THOMAS CHALMERS thought tion truth ture universal violence virtue virtuous volition wherewith whole wisdom
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Página ix - President, should be appointed to write, print and publish one thousand copies of a work, on the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation; illustrating such work, by all reasonable arguments, as, for instance, the variety and formation of God's creatures in the Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Kingdoms; the effect of digestion, and, thereby, of conversion ; the construction of the hand of man, and an infinite variety of other arguments; as also by discoveries, ancient and modern,...
Página 287 - What ages and what lights are requisite for THIS attainment ! This intelligence involves the very attributes of divinity, while a God is denied. For, unless this man is omnipresent, unless he is at this moment in every place in the universe, he cannot know but there may be in some place manifestations of a Deity by which even he would be overpowered.
Página 60 - ... nee erit alia Lex Romae, alia Athenis, alia nunc, alia posthac ; sed et omnes gentes, et omni tempore una lex et sempiterna et immutabilis continebit ; unusque erit communis quasi magister et imperator omnium Deus.
Página 48 - ... you cannot form a notion of this faculty, conscience, without taking in judgment, direction, superintendency. This is a constituent part of the idea, that is, of the faculty itself: and, to preside and govern, from the very economy and constitution of man, belongs to it. Had it strength, as it had right: had it power, as it had manifest authority, it would absolutely govern the world.
Página 271 - ... liberty consisting in a power to act or to forbear acting, and in that only. For a man that sits still is said yet to be at liberty, because he can walk if he wills it. But if a man sitting still has not a power to remove himself, he is not at liberty; so likewise a man falling down a precipice, though in motion, is not at liberty, because he cannot stop that motion if he would.
Página 268 - an act of the mind, knowingly exerting that dominion it takes itself to have over any part of the man, by employing it in or withholding it from any particular action.
Página ix - Testator further directed, that the person or persons selected by the said President should be appointed to write, print, and publish, one thousand copies of a work On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation ; illustrating suck work by all reasonable arguments — as.
Página 185 - But though, in accounting for the operations of bodies, we never fail to distinguish in this manner the efficient from the final cause, in accounting for those of the mind, we are very apt to confound these two different things with one another. When by natural principles we are led to advance those ends which a refined and enlightened reason would recommend to us, we are very apt...
Página 29 - He that made- the eye, shall He not see ? He that planted the ear, shall He not hear...
Página 48 - Thus, that principle by which we survey, and either approve or disapprove our own heart, temper, and actions, is not only to be considered as what is in its turn to have some influence ; which may be said of every passion, of the lowest appetites : but likewise as being superior ; as from its very nature manifestly claiming superiority over all others ; insomuch that you cannot form a notion of this faculty, conscience, without taking in judgment...