The Works of Lord Bolingbroke: With a Life, Prepared Expressly for this Edition, Containing Additional Information Relative to His Personal and Public Character, Volume 4Carey and Hart, 1841 - Great Britain |
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... existence , but that are inconsistent with it : notwithstanding which , the fathers of the church spoke of him sometimes , in such terms , that to make out any sense in what they said , we must understand them to have thought him ...
... existence , but that are inconsistent with it : notwithstanding which , the fathers of the church spoke of him sometimes , in such terms , that to make out any sense in what they said , we must understand them to have thought him ...
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... existence of an all - perfect Being : and to be thus accused by men , who presume to maintain that they have other objects of knowledge , besides the existence of an all - perfect Being , which exist by the necessity of their own ...
... existence of an all - perfect Being : and to be thus accused by men , who presume to maintain that they have other objects of knowledge , besides the existence of an all - perfect Being , which exist by the necessity of their own ...
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... existence of all that he created . * What I have been led to say on this occasion makes it necessary to ex- plain myself a little more fully ; for though I dare not assert , like metaphysical divines of your and my communion , that the ...
... existence of all that he created . * What I have been led to say on this occasion makes it necessary to ex- plain myself a little more fully ; for though I dare not assert , like metaphysical divines of your and my communion , that the ...
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... existence of God . I do not believe that he meant to weaken this great truth by employing a sophism to prove it ; but I believe that the affectation of novelty led him into paralogism , or an undesigned sophism . He assumed that he had ...
... existence of God . I do not believe that he meant to weaken this great truth by employing a sophism to prove it ; but I believe that the affectation of novelty led him into paralogism , or an undesigned sophism . He assumed that he had ...
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... existence , yet he knows them all to be truths as well as the theist . He knows that they result from the nature of things . He pronounces them therefore immutable and eternal , as he conceives that nature to be ; and can take no side ...
... existence , yet he knows them all to be truths as well as the theist . He knows that they result from the nature of things . He pronounces them therefore immutable and eternal , as he conceives that nature to be ; and can take no side ...
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Page 26 - Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and, if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life...
Page 129 - In effect, it is something imperfect that cannot exist, an idea wherein some parts of several different and inconsistent ideas are put together.
Page 47 - And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Page 49 - AND he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.
Page 195 - And if we may not suppose men ever to have been in the state of Nature, because we hear not much of them in such a state, we may as well suppose the armies of Salmanasser or Xerxes were never children, because we hear little of them till they were men and embodied in armies.
Page 99 - That also of the procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son...
Page 403 - As in matters of sense, the reason why a thing is visible is not because it is seen, but it is therefore seen because it is visible : so in matters of natural reason and morality, that which is holy and good...
Page 139 - Tum Velleius fidenter sane, ut solent isti, nihil tam verens quam ne dubitare aliqua de re videretur...
Page 361 - It is not only true, but obvious, that man is connected by his nature, and, therefore, by the design of the Author of all nature, with the whole tribe of animals, and so closely with some of them, that the distance between his intellectual faculties and theirs, which constitutes as really, though not so sensibly as figure, the difference of species, appears, in many instances, small, and would probably appear still less, if we had the means of knowing their motives, as we have of observing their...
Page 252 - ... preferable, because there are only two things compared. I shall subjoin to this an inaccuracy in a comparison of equality, where, though the positive degree only is used, the construction must be similar to that of the comparative, both being followed by conjunctions which govern no case. " Such notions would be avowed at this time by none but Rosicrucians, and fanatics as mad as them."f Grammatically they, the verb are being understood.