| Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1823 - 810 Seiten
...these to one another. God is related to the universe, as Creator and Preserver ; the laws by which he created all things, are those by which he preserves...them. He acts according to these rules, because he Snows them ; he knows them, because he made them ; and he made them, because they are relative to his... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1832 - 610 Seiten
...these to one another. God is related to the universe as creator and preserver; the laws by which Ire created all things, are those by which he preserves...because he knows them ; he knows them, because he made them ; and he made them, because they are relative to his wisdom and power. Since we observe that... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1832 - 622 Seiten
...preserves them. He acts according to these rules, because he knows them ; he knows them, because he made them ; and he made them, because they are relative to his wisdom and power. Since we observe that the world, though formed by the motion of matter, and void of understanding,... | |
| George Combe - 1835 - 440 Seiten
...Creator and preserver; the laws by which he has created all things are those hy which he presernes llvem. He acts according to these rules, because he knows...and power, &c. ' Man, as a physical being, is, like oilier bodies, governed by invariable laws.' — Spirit of Laws, bici Justice Blackstone observes,... | |
| George Combe - 1835 - 442 Seiten
...universe as Creator and preserver; the laws by which he lias created all things are those ly whirh he preserves them. He acts according to these rules, because he knows them : ha knows them because he has made them ; and he made them because they are relative to his wisdom... | |
| Thomas Solly - 1839 - 192 Seiten
...intelligible propositions ; therefore they are both true, or both false. (9.) God acts according to laws because he knows them, he knows them because he has made them, he has made them because they bear a certain relation to his wisdom and power ; therefore God acts... | |
| George Combe - 1845 - 498 Seiten
...which subsist between it and different beings, and the relations of these beings among themselves. 1 to Omniscience ;) that we are exposed to the piercing...would be but as the powerless gaze of an infant ! lite other bodies, governed by invariable laws.'— Spirit of Laws, b. i, ci Justice Blackstone observes,... | |
| George Combe - 1850 - 452 Seiten
...be more absurd than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings 1 * There is, then, a primitive reason ; and laws are...acts according to these rules, because he knows them r he knows them because he has made them ; and he made them because they are relative to his wisdom... | |
| george combe - 1860 - 390 Seiten
...be more absurd than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings 1 " There is, then, a primitive reason ; and laws are...being, is, like other bodies, governed by invariable laws."—Spirit of Laws, book i. chap. i. Justice Blackstone observes, that " Law, in its most general... | |
| 1871 - 792 Seiten
...nobler agencies appear upon the scene of action. ''He acts," observes Montesquieu, " by these laws because He knows them ; He knows them because He has made them ; and He has made them because they have an affinity with His wisdom and power." 5. Almanacs recall and suggest... | |
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