An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry and ScepticismA. Kincaid & J. Bell, 1771 - 568 strán (strany) |
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... but fome of his reafonings on the fubject of human nature I cannot admit , without renouncing my claim to rationality . There is a Writer now alive , of whofe philofophy : I have much to fay . By his philofophy B I INTRODUCTION . 9.
... but fome of his reafonings on the fubject of human nature I cannot admit , without renouncing my claim to rationality . There is a Writer now alive , of whofe philofophy : I have much to fay . By his philofophy B I INTRODUCTION . 9.
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... as would not offend any of his rational admirers . But why is this au- thor's character fo replete with inconfift- Seneca , Controv . lib . 3 . ency ! ency ! why should his principles and his talents extort 10 INTRODUCTION .
... as would not offend any of his rational admirers . But why is this au- thor's character fo replete with inconfift- Seneca , Controv . lib . 3 . ency ! ency ! why should his principles and his talents extort 10 INTRODUCTION .
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... rational being is determined , by the conftitution of his nature , to ad- mit as probable , may be called probable truth ; the acknowledgement of it is as u- niverfal as rational nature , and will be as But , in this inquiry , we ...
... rational being is determined , by the conftitution of his nature , to ad- mit as probable , may be called probable truth ; the acknowledgement of it is as u- niverfal as rational nature , and will be as But , in this inquiry , we ...
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... rational ground of knowledge , we need not fcruple to anfwer in the negative . For thefe queftions , accor- ding to the beft lights that our rational faculties can afford , feem to us to refer to the production of an effect as truly ...
... rational ground of knowledge , we need not fcruple to anfwer in the negative . For thefe queftions , accor- ding to the beft lights that our rational faculties can afford , feem to us to refer to the production of an effect as truly ...
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... rational foul was gradually annihila- ted , and that nothing was now left him , but a principle of animal life , which he held in common with the brutes . But where - ever the ftory of this excellent fon is known , his unhappy mistake ...
... rational foul was gradually annihila- ted , and that nothing was now left him , but a principle of animal life , which he held in common with the brutes . But where - ever the ftory of this excellent fon is known , his unhappy mistake ...
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Strana 74 - fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills, and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?
Strana 74 - Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here? Not of myself, by some great Maker then, In goodness and in power pre-eminent : Tell me, how may I know him, how adore, From whom I have that thus I move and live, And feel that I am happier than I know.
Strana 505 - I am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all the other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites.
Strana 296 - Where is the harm of my believing, that if I were to fall down yonder precipice, and break my neck, I should be no more a man of this world? My neck, Sir, may be an idea to you, but to me it is a reality, and an important one too. Where is the harm of my believing, that if, in this severe weather...
Strana 273 - For philosophy informs us, that every thing, which appears to the mind, is nothing but a perception, and is interrupted, and dependent on the mind ; whereas the vulgar confound perceptions and objects, and attribute a distinct continu'd existence to the very things they feel or see.
Strana 330 - A cause is an object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it that the idea of the one determines the mind to form the idea of the other, and the impression of the one to form a more lively idea of the other.
Strana 364 - That though man in truth is a necessary agent, having all his actions determined by fixed and immutable laws ; yet, this being concealed from him, he acts with the conviction of being a free agent...
Strana 262 - We have, it is true, a livelier perception of a friend when we see him, than when we think of him in his absence. But this is not all: every person of a sound mind knows, that in the one case we believe, and are certain, that the object exists, and is present with us; in the other we believe, and are certain, that the object is not present.
Strana 75 - What am I? or from whence? For that I am I know, because I think; but whence I came, Or how this frame of mine began to be, What other Being can disclose to me?
Strana 365 - I'm sped, If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seized and tied down to judge, how wretched I! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie: To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest anguish, and an aching head; And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, — 'Keep your piece nine years.