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... cause , goodness , power , existence , and the like . The former is an object of sense , some- thing which can be seen , heard , felt , or touched , — whether we have had sensible evidence of it ourselves , or rely upon the tes- timony ...
... cause , goodness , power , existence , and the like . The former is an object of sense , some- thing which can be seen , heard , felt , or touched , — whether we have had sensible evidence of it ourselves , or rely upon the tes- timony ...
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... cause of error never affects a simple intuition , or a step in the process when taken by itself . Here the certainty ... causes of pos- sible error . The objects of physical science must always be imperfectly known ; we never can be sure ...
... cause of error never affects a simple intuition , or a step in the process when taken by itself . Here the certainty ... causes of pos- sible error . The objects of physical science must always be imperfectly known ; we never can be sure ...
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... cause of error may be traced in the works of the French philosophers , so called , of the last century , especially in those of Helvetius , Volney , D'Holbach , and Condillac . Hel- vetius , for instance , refusing to receive any other ...
... cause of error may be traced in the works of the French philosophers , so called , of the last century , especially in those of Helvetius , Volney , D'Holbach , and Condillac . Hel- vetius , for instance , refusing to receive any other ...
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... cause of the abuse of general principles in morals , politics , and jurisprudence , and of the intolerable evils which are occasioned by fanaticism of be- lief and a reckless ultraism . It may be granted that the abstract principle ...
... cause of the abuse of general principles in morals , politics , and jurisprudence , and of the intolerable evils which are occasioned by fanaticism of be- lief and a reckless ultraism . It may be granted that the abstract principle ...
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... cause , or to analyze our idea of infinity . Observation cannot aid us here . In the external world , and in the succession of our thoughts , we witness only events or changes ; we observe only sequences of phenomena ; and to bind ...
... cause , or to analyze our idea of infinity . Observation cannot aid us here . In the external world , and in the succession of our thoughts , we witness only events or changes ; we observe only sequences of phenomena ; and to bind ...
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Abraham Tucker absolute abstract action admit agency animal antecedent appetites argument argument from design attributes believe benevolence body brute called causation character chemical affinity Christianity conceive conception conclusion conduct conscience consciousness consequences considered constitution creation Creator Deity direct distinct Divine doctrine Dugald Stewart duty earth effect efficient cause ence enjoyment evidence evil exertion existence experience external fact faculty faith happiness human ical idea induction infer infinite infinite series inquiry instance instinct intellect knowledge Lecture manifested mankind material matter means ment metaphysical mind moral government moral universe motion motives Natural Religion natural theology never object obligation observation organ outward peculiar perfect person phenomena philosophical physical science pleasure polytheism principles proof prove purpose question reason relations relations of ideas religious respect revelation sense skepticism soul Spinoza suppose theory things tion truth universe virtue whole wisdom
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Page 24 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate— Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute — And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Page 283 - Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.
Page 297 - Lord, with what care hast thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters Deliver us to laws : they send us bound To rules of reason, holy messengers, Pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, Afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes...
Page 440 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word...
Page 377 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Page 136 - But wandering oft, with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not Thee, marks not the mighty Hand That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres ; Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring...
Page 144 - That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Page 422 - The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice, and shall come forth : they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation...
Page 441 - Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see: For I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them ; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
Page 137 - The secrets of the hoary deep; a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand.