An essay on the principles of human knowledgeJ. Archdeacon & J. Burges, 1794 - 240 pages |
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... senses , hearing , feeing , tafting , feeling , fmelling ; no two are fimilar : the ideas of extenfion , figure ( a parti- cular mode of extenfion ) , and motion received by the eye are quite different from those received by the touch ...
... senses , hearing , feeing , tafting , feeling , fmelling ; no two are fimilar : the ideas of extenfion , figure ( a parti- cular mode of extenfion ) , and motion received by the eye are quite different from those received by the touch ...
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... sense , we can feldom judge with much accuracy and precision concerning an idea excit- ed from the fame cause through a different sense ; but in the cafe of our ideas of extenfion from fight and touch there is an exception , by making ...
... sense , we can feldom judge with much accuracy and precision concerning an idea excit- ed from the fame cause through a different sense ; but in the cafe of our ideas of extenfion from fight and touch there is an exception , by making ...
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... contrary , there may exift a fpiritual world , not to be seen by our senses and our place of existence in a future state . 21. The ideas of founds and all other ideas , that ... that can be received from a body at a distance ( 12 )
... contrary , there may exift a fpiritual world , not to be seen by our senses and our place of existence in a future state . 21. The ideas of founds and all other ideas , that ... that can be received from a body at a distance ( 12 )
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... sense of piety from the confiderations of the power , wifdom and good- nefs of the Supreme , and our dependence on him , and fome feelings either greater or less almost from every object and relation . 6. The mind can retain the fame ...
... sense of piety from the confiderations of the power , wifdom and good- nefs of the Supreme , and our dependence on him , and fome feelings either greater or less almost from every object and relation . 6. The mind can retain the fame ...
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... felf - evident propofitions immediately deducible from expe- rience , we denominate it a rational being ; if we perceive it to investigate and have a sense of the 1 the laws given by the Supreme for a rule ( 63 63 ) )
... felf - evident propofitions immediately deducible from expe- rience , we denominate it a rational being ; if we perceive it to investigate and have a sense of the 1 the laws given by the Supreme for a rule ( 63 63 ) )
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Page 93 - The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me ; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek ; he hath sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound...
Page 93 - ... opened not his mouth. He was taken from prifon and from judgment : and who fhall declare. his generation ? for he was cur off out of the land of the living : for the tranfgreffion of my people was he ftricken.
Page 93 - But He was wounded for our tranfgreffions, He was bruifed for our iniquities : the chaftifement of our peace was upon Him ; and with His ftripes we are healed. All we like meep have gone aftray ; we have turned every one to his own way ; and the LORD hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
Page 93 - He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth : He is brought as a lamb to the flaughter, and as a fheep before her fhearers is dumb, fo He openeth not His mouth. He was taken from prifon and from judgment : and who mall declare His generation ? for He was cut off out of the land of the living : for the tranfgreffion of my people was was He ftricken.
Page 93 - He is defpifed and rejected of men ; a Man of forrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from Him ; He was defpifed, and we efteemed Him not.
Page 115 - I could subjoin in utility : many more might have been added, but I never could hear of any reader in England out of Cambridge, who took the pains to read and understand what I have written.
Page 94 - And He made His grave with the wicked, and with the rich in His death ; becaufe He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth.
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