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... Newton's influence on the philo- sophy of his time ; the Rev. Chancellor Wordsworth of Salisbury , Archbishop Bernard , Provost of Trinity College , Dublin ; the Rev. P. P. Goldingham , the Rev. C. W. Emmet , the Rev. W. J. Brown , and ...
... Newton's influence on the philo- sophy of his time ; the Rev. Chancellor Wordsworth of Salisbury , Archbishop Bernard , Provost of Trinity College , Dublin ; the Rev. P. P. Goldingham , the Rev. C. W. Emmet , the Rev. W. J. Brown , and ...
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... Newton . Locke , Berkeley , and Hume all mention Spinoza . Berkeley had read him , it is not certain that the others had done so . Several writers make more or less well - informed replies to him , but the only competent criticism was ...
... Newton . Locke , Berkeley , and Hume all mention Spinoza . Berkeley had read him , it is not certain that the others had done so . Several writers make more or less well - informed replies to him , but the only competent criticism was ...
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... Newton in particular , to explain them . The age in which the names of Galileo , Kepler , and Newton are linked could hardly fail to have an interest in the methods of natural science . Theology slipped into the background . At ...
... Newton in particular , to explain them . The age in which the names of Galileo , Kepler , and Newton are linked could hardly fail to have an interest in the methods of natural science . Theology slipped into the background . At ...
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... Newton's Optics , and did much to popularize the new physics . His Boyle lectures on The Being and Attributes of God are saturated with the influence of the Principia , so much so that Newton is hardly less his guide in Natural Religion ...
... Newton's Optics , and did much to popularize the new physics . His Boyle lectures on The Being and Attributes of God are saturated with the influence of the Principia , so much so that Newton is hardly less his guide in Natural Religion ...
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... Newton enlarged men's conception of the infinite . It is impossible , indeed , to exaggerate the many - sided com- pleteness of Newton's influence on all later thinkers . Pope's well - known lines sum up his achievement : - Nature and ...
... Newton enlarged men's conception of the infinite . It is impossible , indeed , to exaggerate the many - sided com- pleteness of Newton's influence on all later thinkers . Pope's well - known lines sum up his achievement : - Nature and ...
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Analogy of Nature argument authority believe benevolence Bishop Butler Bishop of Bristol Bishop of Durham Boyle Lectures Bristol Butler's Analogy Chapter Christianity Church claims Clarke clergy conscience credible Deism Deists Descartes Divine doctrine doubt Durham duty Edition eighteenth century English Essay ethics evidence experience fact faculties faith God's Gospel happiness Haughton-le-Skerne Hobbes human nature Ibid ignorance Illustrations implies important infallibility influence interest J. H. Newman letter light LITURGICAL COLOURS live Logic Lord Lord Acton man's mankind Mark Pattison means method miracles modern moral government mystery natural religion Newton objections obligation Oriel College perfect persons preached Preface principles probability proof prophecy prove reason religious revelation rewards and punishments Rolls Sermons Roman says scheme scholasticism Scripture Secker self-love selfishness sense shews Spirit teaches theology things thought tion true truth universe virtue W. E. GLADSTONE whole writers
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Sida 13 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment...
Sida 48 - And that when we are commanded to love the Lord our God, with all our heart, and with all our mind...
Sida 90 - And so I live, you see, Go through the world, try, prove, reject, Prefer, still struggling to effect My warfare ; happy that I can Be crossed and thwarted as a man, Not left in God's contempt apart, With ghastly smooth life, dead at heart, fame in earth's paddock as her prize.
Sida 46 - Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be : Why then should we desire to be deceived?
Sida 44 - ... one may wish, is not in reality a sufficient motive of virtue in such a creature as man; but this reason joined with those affections which God has impressed upon his heart, and when these are allowed scope to exercise themselves, but under strict government and direction of reason, then it is we act suitably to our nature, and to the circumstances God has placed us in.
Sida 35 - Origen* has with singular sagacity observed, that he who believes the Scripture to have proceeded from him who is the Author of Nature, may well expect to find the same sort of difficulties in it, as are found in the constitution of Nature.
Sida 33 - In Roman Catholic countries, people cannot pass a day without having religion recalled to their thoughts, by some or other memorial of it ; by some ceremony or public religious form occurring in their way; besides their frequent holidays, the short prayers they are daily called to, and the occasional devotions enjoined by confessors.
Sida 49 - Our province is virtue and religion, life and manners; the science of improving the temper, and making the heart better. This is the field assigned us to cultivate: how much it has lain neglected is indeed astonishing.
Sida 30 - Sir, the pretending to extraordinary revelations and gifts of the Holy Ghost, is a horrid thing, a very horrid thing ! W.