Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, in Two VolumesJ. Williams, 1779 - 571 páginas |
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... ftrong natural reafon and abilities ; if that ob- ject be entirely new to him , he will not be able , by the most accurate examination of its fenfible qualities , to difcover any of its caufes or ef- fects . fects . Adam , though his ...
... ftrong natural reafon and abilities ; if that ob- ject be entirely new to him , he will not be able , by the most accurate examination of its fenfible qualities , to difcover any of its caufes or ef- fects . fects . Adam , though his ...
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... ftrong and lively than any loofe , floating reverie of the imagination . That idea arifes immediately . The thought moves in- ftantly towards it , and conveys to it all that force of conception , which is derived from the impreffi- on ...
... ftrong and lively than any loofe , floating reverie of the imagination . That idea arifes immediately . The thought moves in- ftantly towards it , and conveys to it all that force of conception , which is derived from the impreffi- on ...
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... ftrong degree of affurance . In all cafes , we must balance the oppofite experiments , where they are oppofite , and deduct the fmaller number from the greater , in order to know the exact force of the fu- perior evidence . A To apply ...
... ftrong degree of affurance . In all cafes , we must balance the oppofite experiments , where they are oppofite , and deduct the fmaller number from the greater , in order to know the exact force of the fu- perior evidence . A To apply ...
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... promoting fo holy a cause : Or even where this delufion has not place , vanity , excited by fo ftrong a temptation , operates on him more powerfully than on the reft reft of mankind in any other circumftances ; and felf Of MIRACLES . 125.
... promoting fo holy a cause : Or even where this delufion has not place , vanity , excited by fo ftrong a temptation , operates on him more powerfully than on the reft reft of mankind in any other circumftances ; and felf Of MIRACLES . 125.
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... ftrong propenfity of mankind to the extraordinary and the marvellous , and ought reasonably to beget a fufpicion against all relations of this kind . This is our natural way of thinking , even with regard to the most common and moft ...
... ftrong propenfity of mankind to the extraordinary and the marvellous , and ought reasonably to beget a fufpicion against all relations of this kind . This is our natural way of thinking , even with regard to the most common and moft ...
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Página 122 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Página 88 - It is universally acknowledged, that there is a great uniformity among the actions of men, in all nations and ages, and that human nature remains still the same in its principles and operations.
Página 59 - Here, then, is a kind of preestablished harmony between the course of nature and the succession of our ideas ; and though the powers and forces by which the former is governed, be wholly unknown to us, yet our thoughts and conceptions have still, we find, gone on in the same train with the other works of nature.
Página 77 - We are got into fairy land long ere we have reached the last steps of our theory ; and there we have no reason to trust our common methods of argument, or to think that our usual analogies and probabilities have any authority.
Página 29 - All reasonings concerning matter of fact seem to be founded on the relation of cause and effect. By means of that relation alone we can go beyond the evidence of our memory and senses. If you were to ask a man why he believes any matter of fact which is absent, for instance, that his friend is in the country or in France, he would give you a reason, and this reason would be some other fact: as a letter received from him or the knowledge of his former resolutions and promises.
Página 448 - Stock, stone, or other homely pedigree, In his defence his servants are as bold As if he had been born of beaten gold. The Jewish Rabbins, though their enemies, In this conclude them honest men and wise ; For 'twas their duty, all the learned think, T" espouse his cause by whom they eat and drink.
Página 39 - We have said that all arguments concerning existence are founded on the relation of cause and effect ; that our knowledge of that relation is derived entirely from experience ; and that all our experimental conclusions proceed upon the supposition, that the future will be conformable to the past.
Página 139 - To make this more evident, let us examine those miracles, related in scripture; and not to lose ourselves in too wide a field, let us confine ourselves to such as we find in the Pentateuch, which we shall examine...
Página 236 - The common situation of society is a medium amidst all these extremes. We are naturally partial to ourselves and to our friends ; but are capable of learning the advantage resulting from a more equitable conduct. Few enjoyments are given us from the open and liberal hand of nature ; but by art, labour, and industry, we can extract them in great abundance. Hence the ideas of property become necessary in all civil society: Hence justice derives its usefulness to the public : And hence alone arises...
Página 67 - Complex ideas may, perhaps, be well known by definition, which is nothing but an enumeration of those parts or simple ideas that compose them.