 | Thomas Dick - 1857 - 892 sidor
...my existence, and to what condition shall I,return? I am confounded with these questions, and b6gin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition imaginable, environed with the deepest darkness."* Diderot, one of the French philosophists, was a man of very considerable acquirements in literature... | |
 | 1857 - 474 sidor
...what? To what causes do I owe my existence, and to what state shall I return ? I am confounded with these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition, surrounded with the deepest darkness." In such feelings Hume was not alone : every man who rejects... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1859 - 428 sidor
...dread ? 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."... | |
 | John Campbell (of Tolbooth church, Edinb.), John Gordon Lorimer (D.D.) - 1859 - 390 sidor
...I return ? Whose favour shall I court, and whose anger shall I dread ? What beings surround me, and on whom have I any influence, or who have any influence on me ? / am confounded by all these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition... | |
 | 1864 - 272 sidor
...condition shall I return ? Whose favor shall I court and whose anger must I dread ? What beings surround me ? * * I am confounded with all these questions,...darkness, and utterly deprived of the use of every faculty and member." Of the striking analogies between the teachings of religion and nature we propose... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1864 - 520 sidor
...From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return t I am confounded with these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the...imaginable, environed with the deepest darkness." — Treatise on Human Nature, vol. ip 458. Voltaire says : " Who can without horror consider the whole... | |
 | 1866 - 534 sidor
...condition shall I return ? Whose favor shall I court and whose anger must I dread ? What beings surround me ? . . . . I am confounded with all these questions,...darkness, and utterly deprived of the use of every faculty and member." Says the skeptic: "If Christianity is true why arc we left to accept it upon the... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1868 - 496 sidor
...dread ? What beings surround me, and on whom have I any influence, and who have any influence over me ? I am confounded with all these questions, and...with the deepest darkness, and utterly deprived of every member and faculty."— "Treatise of Human Nature," i., 4, 7. This self-description is of a kind... | |
 | 1868 - 986 sidor
...existence, and to what condition shall I return ? Whose favour shall I court, and whose anger must I dread ? I am confounded with all these questions, and begin...imaginable, environed with the deepest darkness, and deprived of the use of every faculty." From this " vain philosophy," however, he escapes by taking... | |
 | 1869 - 796 sidor
...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...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... | |
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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?... 
