An essay on the principles of human knowledgeJ. Archdeacon & J. Burges, 1794 - 240 pages |
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... living animals in pain or distress ; love , being a pleasure received from one of a dif- ferent fex ; friendship from one of the fame or different ; anger from a conception of fome in- jury offered ; gratitude from fome good received ...
... living animals in pain or distress ; love , being a pleasure received from one of a dif- ferent fex ; friendship from one of the fame or different ; anger from a conception of fome in- jury offered ; gratitude from fome good received ...
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... living animal in prefent , or likely to be in fome future diftrefs , will be a paffion when strong , when weak a bare feeling , a moral one if it arifes only from duty . 7. Pleafing feelings are forcibly excited from the D 2 acqui ...
... living animal in prefent , or likely to be in fome future diftrefs , will be a paffion when strong , when weak a bare feeling , a moral one if it arifes only from duty . 7. Pleafing feelings are forcibly excited from the D 2 acqui ...
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... living beings con- tained in this world . The Supreme has impreft on our minds a fa- culty for the fource of all our knowledge and actions ; namely , a neceffary or impulfive belief of the future from the paft , viz . that what has been ...
... living beings con- tained in this world . The Supreme has impreft on our minds a fa- culty for the fource of all our knowledge and actions ; namely , a neceffary or impulfive belief of the future from the paft , viz . that what has been ...
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... living principle or foul , it is so far from being improved , that it is endued with no other principles than meer matter ; and incapable , by any art known to mankind , of having any living principle given to it . 5. Perception ...
... living principle or foul , it is so far from being improved , that it is endued with no other principles than meer matter ; and incapable , by any art known to mankind , of having any living principle given to it . 5. Perception ...
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... living powers , i . e . understanding , will , and felf - motion , we fhould not , in our present state , know it to be a material substance , unless revealed to us . All the properties of matter , & c . are entirely paffive , and ...
... living powers , i . e . understanding , will , and felf - motion , we fhould not , in our present state , know it to be a material substance , unless revealed to us . All the properties of matter , & c . are entirely paffive , and ...
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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.
Page 92 - The prediction of Ifaiah is ftill clearer : ch. ix. 6, 7. " unto us a child is born, unto us a fon is " given, and the government fhall be upon his fhoulders ; and his " name fhall be called * Wonderful, Counfellor, the Mighty God, ." the Everlafting Father, the Prince of Peace : of the increafe of " his government and peace there fhall be no end, upon the throne
Page 93 - The Spirit of the LORD GOD is upon Me, becaufe the LORD hath anointed me...
Page 114 - I have given a history of the inventions of the different writers, and ascribed them to their respective authors, and likewise some account of my own. To every one of these sciences I have been able to make some additions, and in the whole, if I am not mistaken in enumerating them, somewhere between three and four...