An Essay on the Origin of Evil, Volym 2F. Stephens, 1732 - 111 sidor |
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... Number- lefs Inftances might eafily be given , [ . ] where we often ap- prove , prefer , defire and choofe , and all we know not why : where we either choofe fuch things as have no manner of Good or Evil in them , excepting what arifes ...
... Number- lefs Inftances might eafily be given , [ . ] where we often ap- prove , prefer , defire and choofe , and all we know not why : where we either choofe fuch things as have no manner of Good or Evil in them , excepting what arifes ...
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... Number confifting of 3 and 3 , and to fay that a Number doth not confift of 3 and 3 is to fay that it is not fix . Man is a Creature obliged to be juft , & c . by the very Conftitution of his Nature , and to fay that he is not ob- liged ...
... Number confifting of 3 and 3 , and to fay that a Number doth not confift of 3 and 3 is to fay that it is not fix . Man is a Creature obliged to be juft , & c . by the very Conftitution of his Nature , and to fay that he is not ob- liged ...
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... Number of Crea- tures he has made he may ftill make more , and howfoever good or perfect , he may fill make better and more perfect . And fince in this Cafe whatever he was pleafed to create was ftill in- finitely fhort in goodness and ...
... Number of Crea- tures he has made he may ftill make more , and howfoever good or perfect , he may fill make better and more perfect . And fince in this Cafe whatever he was pleafed to create was ftill in- finitely fhort in goodness and ...
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... number of Appetites , the more liable would they be to continual Difappointment . But to return , As there is no best in Nature , or in the Divine Intellect antecedent to the Divine Will , which can be fuppofed to determine that Will to ...
... number of Appetites , the more liable would they be to continual Difappointment . But to return , As there is no best in Nature , or in the Divine Intellect antecedent to the Divine Will , which can be fuppofed to determine that Will to ...
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... Number of regular Pyramids will fill a Space , and yet irregular ones will do it as well , if what we take from the one be added to another and the fame thing may be done by Bodies of the moft irregular and different Figures in the fame ...
... Number of regular Pyramids will fill a Space , and yet irregular ones will do it as well , if what we take from the one be added to another and the fame thing may be done by Bodies of the moft irregular and different Figures in the fame ...
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Sida 65 - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field: upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Sida 48 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Sida 27 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Sida 444 - ... we must, in this world, gain a relish of truth and virtue, if we would be able to taste that knowledge and perfection which are to make us happy in the next.
Sida 444 - ... it is for us to gain habits of virtue in this life, if we would enjoy the pleasures of the next.
Sida 9 - ... his senses, we do it by comparing it to something that already has, by offering him some similitude, resemblance, or analogy, to help his conception. As for example, to give a man a notion of a country to which he is a stranger, and to make him apprehend...
Sida 1 - God, as it is in itself, is incomprehensible by human understanding ; and not only his nature, but likewise his powers and faculties, and the ways and methods in which he exercises them, are so far beyond our reach, that we are utterly incapable of framing exact and adequate notions of them.
Sida 424 - ... but they surprise and come upon us from we know not what quarter. If they proceeded from the mobility of spirits, straggling out of order, and fortuitous affections of the brain, or were of the nature of dreams, why are they not as wild, incoherent, and extravagant as they are? Not to add, that the world has generally acknowledged, and therefore...
Sida 23 - ... analogy and proportion between them. But then we ought to remember that there is as great a difference between these, when attributed to God, and as they are in us, as between weighing in a balance and thinking ; in truth, infinitely greater...
Sida 261 - I think, that the philosophers of old did in vain inquire, whether summum bonum consisted in riches, or bodily delights, or virtue, or contemplation; and they might have as reasonably disputed whether the best relish were to be found in apples, plums, or nuts, and have divided themselves into sects upon it.