On the Whole Doctrine of Final Causes: A Dissertation in Three Parts, with an Introductory Chapter on the Character of Modern DeismRivington, 1836 - 230 páginas |
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... believe that we are immured in this world as in a dark dungeon , endowed with an irrepressible but vain desire of beholding the light of day ? While we sit still , said an old philosopher , we are never the wiser , but going into the ...
... believe that we are immured in this world as in a dark dungeon , endowed with an irrepressible but vain desire of beholding the light of day ? While we sit still , said an old philosopher , we are never the wiser , but going into the ...
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... believe this Doctrine of Causa- tion to be a sound basis , whereon to erect Theolo- gical Science , without entertaining the previous question - Whether the admission of the Principle of Causation be consistent with the existence of Re ...
... believe this Doctrine of Causa- tion to be a sound basis , whereon to erect Theolo- gical Science , without entertaining the previous question - Whether the admission of the Principle of Causation be consistent with the existence of Re ...
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... believe every honest seeker of truth will admit , that it is a favourite resource of Mr. Hume to argue , by enthymeme , and suppress a sus- picious - looking premiss , even when his whole argument depends on it . For instance : When he ...
... believe every honest seeker of truth will admit , that it is a favourite resource of Mr. Hume to argue , by enthymeme , and suppress a sus- picious - looking premiss , even when his whole argument depends on it . For instance : When he ...
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... believe that one may be permitted to agree with Newton in this matter , without being charge- able with an undue reverence for the Mathema- ticians . 1 Of all the arguments in defence of this plain " Truth of Reason , " the profoundest ...
... believe that one may be permitted to agree with Newton in this matter , without being charge- able with an undue reverence for the Mathema- ticians . 1 Of all the arguments in defence of this plain " Truth of Reason , " the profoundest ...
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... believe , that he may and does ; and I see not , why I may not , there- fore , at once conclude that finite Intelligences are true Causes . A correct reasoner must decide in every case , according to the phenomena ; and one of the most ...
... believe , that he may and does ; and I see not , why I may not , there- fore , at once conclude that finite Intelligences are true Causes . A correct reasoner must decide in every case , according to the phenomena ; and one of the most ...
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absolute abstract absurd actions admitted affirm ancient antecedence argue Argument from Design Argument from Final Aristotle Atheistic believe Berkeley Bishop Bishop Butler Bridgewater Treatise called character Christian Church Coleridge conclusion consequence considered constitution contradiction Deism Deist Deity deny depend Discourse dispute Dissertation distinct Doctrine of Causation doctrine of Final Effect Efficient Epicurus eternal evident existence experience fact Final Causes finite human mind Hume Hume's idea immutable inference Infidel instance Intelligence knowledge Lord Brougham man's matter means metaphysical modern moral Natural Religion Natural Theology nature of things necessity notion object observed opinion Paley Parmenides perceive perhaps Personality petitio principii Phædo philosophic phrase plain Plato premises principles priori proof proposition prove Religious remarks Revelation sceptic seems self-existent shew Soame Jenyns sophisms suppose tendency Theologians thought tion Treatise true Truths of Reason Truths of Sense Unity universal Voltaire whole wholly word Cause writers
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Página 140 - It is a happy world after all. The air, the earth, the water, teem with delighted existence. In a spring noon, or a summer evening, on whichever side I turn my eyes, myriads of happy beings crowd upon my view. " The insect youth are on the wing.
Página 7 - Which was the echo of three thousand years; And the tumultuous world stood mute to hear it As some lone man who in a desert hears The music of his home...
Página 148 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers ; his to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel. But who with filial confidence inspired Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say — My Father made them all.
Página 161 - Thy creatures have been my books, but thy Scriptures much more. I have sought thee in the courts, fields, and gardens ; but I have found thee in thy temples.
Página 120 - God, who searcheth the hearts and trieth the reins of the children of men ! John iv.
Página 106 - ... review and comparison of the nature of man as respecting self, and as respecting society, it will plainly appear that there are as real and the same kind of indications in human nature, that we were made for society and to do good to our fellow-creatures, as...
Página 140 - If we look to what the waters produce, shoals of the fry of fish frequent the margins of rivers, of lakes, and of the sea itself. These are so happy that they know not what to do with themselves. Their attitudes, their vivacity, their leaps out of the water, their frolics in it...
Página 60 - I sometimes use the word cause, in this inquiry, to signify any antecedent, either natural or moral, positive or negative, on which an event, either a thing, or the manner and circumstance of a thing, so depends, that it is the ground and reason, either in whole or in part, why it is, rather than. not...
Página 70 - Lex II. Mutationem motus proportionalem esse vi motrici impressae, et fieri secundum lineam rectam qua vis ilia imprimitur.