 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1852 - 448 sidor
...Whose favour shall I court, and whose anger must I dread ? What beings surround me, and on whom have 1 any influence, or who have any influence on me ? I...deprived of the use of every member and faculty." A sad confession this of the satisfaction of what he calls " the calm, though obscure regions of philosophy."... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1852 - 470 sidor
...favour shall I court, and whose anger must 12 I dread ? What beings surround me, and on whom have 1 any influence, or who have any influence on me ? I...deprived of the use of every member and faculty." A sad confession this of the satisfaction of what he calls " the calm, though obscure regions of philosophy."... | |
 | Rev. Daniel Smith - 1852 - 278 sidor
...To what causes do I owe my existence ? and to what condition shall I return j I am confounded with these questions ; and begin to fancy myself in the...imaginable, environed with the deepest darkness." Voltaire's is not less striking. It is indeed more so. It is not only the confession of his own misery,... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 468 sidor
...I return ? Whose favor shall I court, and whose anger must I dread ? What beings surround me ? and on whom have I any influence, or •who have any influence...utterly deprived of the use of every member and faculty. Most fortunately it happens, that since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, Nature herself... | |
 | 1854 - 532 sidor
...strong propensity to consider objects strongly in that view under which they appear to me." — Ibid. " I am confounded with all these questions, and begin...deprived 'of the use of every member and faculty. Most fortunately it happens, that, since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, Nature herself... | |
 | 1854 - 496 sidor
...strong propensity to consider objects strongly in that view under which they appear to me." — Ibid. " I am confounded with all these questions, and begin...utterly deprived of the use of every member and faculty. Most fortunately it happens, that, since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, Nature herself... | |
 | Edward Tagart - 1855 - 524 sidor
...I, or what ? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return ? . . . I am confounded with all these questions, and begin...deprived of the use of every member and faculty." But these sentiments, with. the addition that all are certainly fools who reason or believe anything, he... | |
 | John Blakely - 1856 - 314 sidor
...From what cause do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return ? I am confounded with these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the...imaginable, environed with the deepest darkness." This exposition of infidel experience is but the groanings of a spirit whose elementary principles... | |
 | P. C. H. - 1856 - 84 sidor
...From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return ? I am confounded with these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the...imaginable, environed with the deepest darkness." Dr. Young in his " Night Thoughts " has this beautiful and striking passage : — " Whence Earth and... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1857 - 428 sidor
...dread 1 What beings surround me, and on whom have 1 any influence, or who have any influence on me 1 I am , confounded with all these questions, and begin...deprived of the use of every member and faculty." A sad confession this of the satisfaction of what he calls " the calm, though obscure regions of philosophy."... | |
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Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return? Whose favour shall I court, and whose anger must I dread? What beings surround me? and on whom have I any influence, or who have any influence on me?... 
