The Works of the Late Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, Volume 5J. Johnson, 1809 |
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... occasion ; and the effect of it has been to confirm me in this opinion , that the theist is a much more formidable enemy to the atheist than the divine . The former takes all the real advantages against a common adversary , which the ...
... occasion ; and the effect of it has been to confirm me in this opinion , that the theist is a much more formidable enemy to the atheist than the divine . The former takes all the real advantages against a common adversary , which the ...
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... occasions ) he would advise , I say , the divine to keep a little more precision in the use of words . Sometimes the world stands for the whole universe , and sometimes for our planet only . The divine must understand it , as Moses does ...
... occasions ) he would advise , I say , the divine to keep a little more precision in the use of words . Sometimes the world stands for the whole universe , and sometimes for our planet only . The divine must understand it , as Moses does ...
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... occasion . In the mean time , let us continue to judge of Moses , as we should do of any other historian , since it is all that is desired of us . Now Now to constitute the authenticity of any his- tory , ARCHBISHOP TILLOTSON'S SERMONS .
... occasion . In the mean time , let us continue to judge of Moses , as we should do of any other historian , since it is all that is desired of us . Now Now to constitute the authenticity of any his- tory , ARCHBISHOP TILLOTSON'S SERMONS .
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... occasion to various readings ? Show me , says the right reverend person , if you can , any law , any doctrine , any ceremony , any miracle , or any prophecy that has been added ! Are not all the writings of the profane authors , whom ...
... occasion to various readings ? Show me , says the right reverend person , if you can , any law , any doctrine , any ceremony , any miracle , or any prophecy that has been added ! Are not all the writings of the profane authors , whom ...
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... occasion to much silly pains that have been taken , both by Jews and Christians , to lessen the absurdity of it , if that were possible . Since it is impossible , some have attempted to explain the whole allego- rically and it may not ...
... occasion to much silly pains that have been taken , both by Jews and Christians , to lessen the absurdity of it , if that were possible . Since it is impossible , some have attempted to explain the whole allego- rically and it may not ...
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Page 42 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, 21 So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the Lord be my God...
Page 87 - Rather than creep up slowly, a posteriori, to a little general knowledge, they soar at once as far and as high as imagination can carry them. From thence they descend again, armed with systems and arguments a priori; and, regardless how these agree or clash with the phenomena of Nature, they impose them on mankind.
Page 96 - ... the whole that we may distinguish what is divine from what is human; adhere to the first implicitly, and ascribe to the last no more authority than the word of man deserves. Such an examination is the more necessary to be undertaken by every one who is concerned for the truth of his religion, and for the honor of Christianity, because the first preachers of it were not, and they who preach it still are not, agreed about many of the most important points of their system; because the controversies...
Page 319 - For I see no contradiction in it, that the first eternal thinking being should, if he pleased, give to certain systems of created senseless matter, put together as he thinks fit, some degrees of sense, perception, and thought: though, as I think, I have proved, lib.
Page 55 - Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day from the night, and to give light upon the earth; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years.
Page 229 - For example, does it not require some pains and skill to form the general idea of a triangle ? (which is yet none of the most abstract comprehensive and difficult) ; for it must be neither oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon, but all and none of these at once.
Page 95 - Let us proceed agreeably to these maxims. Let us seek truth, but seek it quietly as well as freely. Let us not imagine, like some who are called free-thinkers, that every man, who can think and judge for himself, as he has a right to do, has therefore a right of speaking, any more than of acting, according to the full freedom of his thoughts. The freedom belongs to him as a rational creature. He lies under the restraint as a member of
Page 291 - First, by REAL IDEAS, I mean such as have a foundation in nature; such as have a conformity with the real being and existence of things, or with their archetypes. FANTASTICAL or CHIMERICAL, I call such as have no foundation in nature, nor have any conformity with that reality of being to which they are tacitly referred, as to their archetypes.
Page 95 - doubt concerning the opinions of your fathers, " keep to them ; they will be sufficient for you. " If you find any reason to doubt concerning " them, seek the truth quietly ; but take care not " to disturb the minds of other men.
Page 75 - PLATO, and his antient and modern disciples, to the imagination only. There is no need however to banish eloquence out of philosophy; and truth and reason are no enemies to the purity, nor to the ornaments of language. But as the want of an exact determination of ideas, and of an exact precision in the use of words, is inexcusable in a philosopher, he must preserve them, even at the expence of style.