An Essay on the Origin of Evil, Band 1W. Thurlbourn & J. Woodyer, 1758 |
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... Duration as is evident from daily Inftances of Avarice , Ambition , Love , Revenge , & c . but alfo , that it is able to transfer them to improper Objects , and fuch as are of a quite dif- ferent Nature from thofe to which our Reafon ...
... Duration as is evident from daily Inftances of Avarice , Ambition , Love , Revenge , & c . but alfo , that it is able to transfer them to improper Objects , and fuch as are of a quite dif- ferent Nature from thofe to which our Reafon ...
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... Duration . The Parts or Periods of this common Duration we call Time ; and every thing which is commenfurate to them is mea- fured by it , and faid to exift in it , after the fame manner as was obferved before of Space . Mix'd Modes and ...
... Duration . The Parts or Periods of this common Duration we call Time ; and every thing which is commenfurate to them is mea- fured by it , and faid to exift in it , after the fame manner as was obferved before of Space . Mix'd Modes and ...
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... Duration , Number , & c . requiring an external Ideatum or objective reality ; of their being real Attributes and neceffarily inferring the Existence of fome immenfe and eternal Being ; whereas all univerfals , or abstract Ideas , fuch ...
... Duration , Number , & c . requiring an external Ideatum or objective reality ; of their being real Attributes and neceffarily inferring the Existence of fome immenfe and eternal Being ; whereas all univerfals , or abstract Ideas , fuch ...
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... Duration , ( as well as Space , ) Number , and all Quantity ; any thing which can be confidered only by way of parts , or in Succeffion ; is abfolutely repugnant to , or incapable of true pofitive infinity in any refpect . Now by a ...
... Duration , ( as well as Space , ) Number , and all Quantity ; any thing which can be confidered only by way of parts , or in Succeffion ; is abfolutely repugnant to , or incapable of true pofitive infinity in any refpect . Now by a ...
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... Duration , Number , Space , Motion , Magnitude , & c . all which , when faid to be infinite , are nothing but fo many infinite Series , and therefore liable to the fame abfurdities ; as the abovemention'd Author has de- monftrated of ...
... Duration , Number , Space , Motion , Magnitude , & c . all which , when faid to be infinite , are nothing but fo many infinite Series , and therefore liable to the fame abfurdities ; as the abovemention'd Author has de- monftrated of ...
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Seite 126 - The whole chasm in nature, from a plant to a man, is filled up with diverse kinds of creatures, rising one over another, by such a gentle and easy ascent, that the little transitions and deviations from one species to another are almost insensible.
Seite 108 - ... to virtue, and knowledge to knowledge; carries in it something wonderfully agreeable to that ambition which is natural to the mind of man.
Seite 139 - Existence is a blessing to those beings only which are endowed with perception ; and is in a manner thrown away upon dead matter, any farther than as it is subservient to beings which are conscious of their existence.
Seite 171 - Labour or exercise ferments the humours, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigour, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
Seite l - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Seite 139 - On the other hand, if we look into the more bulky parts of nature, we see the seas, lakes, and rivers, teeming with numberless kinds of living creatures.
Seite 126 - If the scale of being rises by such a regular progress so high as man, we may, by a parity of reason, suppose that it still proceeds gradually through those beings which are of a superior nature to him ; since there is an infinitely greater space and room for different degrees of perfection between the Supreme Being and man, than between man and the most despicable insect.
Seite 125 - It is wonderful to observe, by what a gradual progress the world of life advances through a prodigious variety of species, before a creature is formed that is complete in all its senses; and even among these there is such a different degree of perfection...
Seite 125 - Infinite goodness is of so communicative a nature, that it seems to delight in the conferring of existence upon every degree of perceptive being. As this is a speculation, which I have often pursued with great pleasure to myself, I shall enlarge farther upon it, by considering that part of the scale of beings which comes within our knowledge.
Seite xxii - ... whenever this end is not perceived, they are to be accounted for from the association of ideas and may properly enough be called habits.