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In der Vossischen Buchhandlung., 1792
 

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Seite 179 - All are but parts of one ftupendous whole, Whofe body Nature is, and God the foul : That, chang'd thro...
Seite 149 - Were we to press, inferior might on ours; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.
Seite 184 - Etfaj. right, fo odd_as the expreffion feems, for you have • made my fyftem as clear as I ought to have done and could not. It is indeed the fame fyftem as mine, but illuftrated with a ray of your own, as they fay our natural body is the fame ftill when it is glorified. I am fure I like it better than I did before, and fo will every man elfe. I know I meant juft what you explain, but I did not explain my own meaning fo well as you.
Seite 184 - you have made my fyftem as clear as " I ought to have done, and could not. " It is indeed the fame fyftem as mine, " but illuftrated with a ray of your own,. •' as they fay our natural body is the " fame ftill when it is glorified.
Seite 190 - Much is alleged in answer to show why Nature errs, and how she came thus impotent and erring from an unerring hand. But I deny she errs ; and when she seems most ignorant or ' perverse in her productions, I assert her even then as wise and provident as in her goodliest works.
Seite 199 - I have only one piece of mercy to beg of you ; do not laugh at my gravity, but permit me to wear the beard of a philosopher, till I pull it off, and make a jest of it myself.
Seite 99 - ... mouvemens, qui font les feuls dont il refte des marques, lui feront éternellement honneur. On l'accufe de n'avoir été qu'un grand & rigide obfervateur du Droit naturel. Ses Pafteurs lui en ont fait des réprimandes publiques & inutiles. On l'accufe auili d'avoir aimé l'argent.
Seite 140 - Then, in the fcale of life and fenfe, 'tis plain There muft be, fome where...
Seite 188 - Beginning. or or Blemifhes of this Part of the Creation, MANKIND; even tho all befides were fair, without a Blemifh. The very Storms and Tempefts had their Beauty in your account, thofe alone excepted, which arofe in Human Breafts. 'Twas only for this turbulent Race of Mortals you offer'd to accufe Nature. And I now found why you had been fo tranfported with the Sto* ry of PROMETHEUS.
Seite 149 - For if each Syftem in Gradation roll, Alike eflential to th' amazing Whole ; The leaft Confufion but in one, not all That Syftem only, but the Whole muft fall. Let Earth...

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