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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... events with pomp and ostenta- tious noise . We pass from the old year to the new , and hear no announcement of the change ; and thus when man is passing from one stage of civilization to another - when one moral cycle is completed , and ...
... events with pomp and ostenta- tious noise . We pass from the old year to the new , and hear no announcement of the change ; and thus when man is passing from one stage of civilization to another - when one moral cycle is completed , and ...
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... events , and even a recurrence to the abandoned opinions and maxims of a former time . The super- ficial will be deceived , and conclude , that now the advancing tide of human things has ebbed once more , therefore it will never return ...
... events , and even a recurrence to the abandoned opinions and maxims of a former time . The super- ficial will be deceived , and conclude , that now the advancing tide of human things has ebbed once more , therefore it will never return ...
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... in previous operation , and , by its silent agency , accelerated the mighty crisis of the Reformation . The Rulers of this - world mingled variously in the events of that most momentous ON THE CHARACTER OF MODERN DEISM . 7.
... in previous operation , and , by its silent agency , accelerated the mighty crisis of the Reformation . The Rulers of this - world mingled variously in the events of that most momentous ON THE CHARACTER OF MODERN DEISM . 7.
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... events of that most momentous time , and have left a various fame behind them - of * ambition , ' policy , treachery , virtuous magnanimity , or enthusiasm of religious chivalry . But the Reformation was the result of a mightier power ...
... events of that most momentous time , and have left a various fame behind them - of * ambition , ' policy , treachery , virtuous magnanimity , or enthusiasm of religious chivalry . But the Reformation was the result of a mightier power ...
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... events , seeming to depend on each other - the sub- sequent on the antecedent ; the former , of any two events , being commonly denominated the CAUSE , the latter , the EFFECT . The greatest difference of opinion has prevailed with ...
... events , seeming to depend on each other - the sub- sequent on the antecedent ; the former , of any two events , being commonly denominated the CAUSE , the latter , the EFFECT . The greatest difference of opinion has prevailed with ...
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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.