An Essay on the Origin of Evil, Band 1W. Thurlbourn & J. Woodyer, 1758 |
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... capable of the former Method , must be very defirable ; and this our Author feems to have done , without any precarious Sy- ftem , or illgrounded Hypothefis . His fuperior Excellence con- fifts in having laid down , and previously ...
... capable of the former Method , must be very defirable ; and this our Author feems to have done , without any precarious Sy- ftem , or illgrounded Hypothefis . His fuperior Excellence con- fifts in having laid down , and previously ...
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... capable of it , on the very best Terms ; or a Refolution not to omit the leaft Degree of pure Good on account of fuch Evils , as did not counterballance it : Or ( which is the very fame , fince it will be evident that the Prevention of ...
... capable of it , on the very best Terms ; or a Refolution not to omit the leaft Degree of pure Good on account of fuch Evils , as did not counterballance it : Or ( which is the very fame , fince it will be evident that the Prevention of ...
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... capable of , and endow'd them with fuch Powers , and placed them in fuch Circumstances as render'd it naturally poffible and even eafy to be attain'd by them : though this may indeed clear his Juftice , and lay the Blame upon ourselves ...
... capable of , and endow'd them with fuch Powers , and placed them in fuch Circumstances as render'd it naturally poffible and even eafy to be attain'd by them : though this may indeed clear his Juftice , and lay the Blame upon ourselves ...
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... capable of the greater and more perfect Happiness . 8. The lefs dependent on external things , the more self- fufficient any Agent is , and the more it has the principle of its Actions in itself , ' tis fo much the more perfect ; Since ...
... capable of the greater and more perfect Happiness . 8. The lefs dependent on external things , the more self- fufficient any Agent is , and the more it has the principle of its Actions in itself , ' tis fo much the more perfect ; Since ...
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... capable of those bene- fits which the fuperior ones enjoy , and fince there are aș many placed in those fuperior Orders as the Syftem of the Univerfe allowed ; it follows that the inferior ones , as a more convenient place could not be ...
... capable of those bene- fits which the fuperior ones enjoy , and fince there are aș many placed in those fuperior Orders as the Syftem of the Univerfe allowed ; it follows that the inferior ones , as a more convenient place could not be ...
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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.