Half-hours with the freethinkers, ed. by J. Watts, 'Iconoclast', and A. CollinsJohn Watts 1857 |
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Strana 7
... manner , and arrived at stronger conclu- sions than Des Cartes ' courage would have supported . Some of the phy- sical speculations of Des Cartes have been much ridiculed by subsequent writers ; but many reasons may be urged , not only ...
... manner , and arrived at stronger conclu- sions than Des Cartes ' courage would have supported . Some of the phy- sical speculations of Des Cartes have been much ridiculed by subsequent writers ; but many reasons may be urged , not only ...
Strana 11
... manner in which objects are conceived by the understanding . Their life , their manners , their actions , are only the operation of the same powers , and the whole of their pretended history no more than a description of their various ...
... manner in which objects are conceived by the understanding . Their life , their manners , their actions , are only the operation of the same powers , and the whole of their pretended history no more than a description of their various ...
Strana 12
... manner not to be resisted . For a long time an automaton , he remained passive , without inquiring into the cause of this action ; but the very moment he was desirous of accounting to himself for it , astonishment seized his mind ; and ...
... manner not to be resisted . For a long time an automaton , he remained passive , without inquiring into the cause of this action ; but the very moment he was desirous of accounting to himself for it , astonishment seized his mind ; and ...
Strana 13
... manner the ideas of the divinity having had for motors the affections of the human heart , they underwent an order of division calcu- lated from the sensations of pain and pleasure , of love and hatred : the powers of nature , the Gods ...
... manner the ideas of the divinity having had for motors the affections of the human heart , they underwent an order of division calcu- lated from the sensations of pain and pleasure , of love and hatred : the powers of nature , the Gods ...
Strana 15
... manners of her inhabitants , and addressing savage and uncultivated men with the motives of filial piety and reverence for the dead ; they intro- duced , as a necessary condition , the undergoing that previous trial which should decide ...
... manners of her inhabitants , and addressing savage and uncultivated men with the motives of filial piety and reverence for the dead ; they intro- duced , as a necessary condition , the undergoing that previous trial which should decide ...
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amongst ANTHONY COLLINS appears argument Atheist believe Bible Blount body Bolingbroke Cartes cause character Charles Blount Christianity Church common conceived Condorcet D'Holbach death Deism Deist Descartes divine doctrine doubt earth EDITED BY ICONOCLAST effect England Epicureans Epicurus eternal existence fact faculties faith father FLEET STREET FREETHINKERS Freethought gave genius Girondists happiness hath heaven Hebrew Bibles Helvetius Hobbes honour human idea ignorance infidel infinite JOHN WATTS king knowledge laws Letters living Lord mankind manner matter Matthew Tindal means mind moral motion nation nature never objects opinion original Paine passions philosophers pleasure Price 1d Priestley priests principles Published Fortnightly reason religion religious says senses Shelley soul Spinoza spirit Stilpo Stoics substance superstition suppose things Thomas Burnet thou thought tion Toland translation true truth universe virtue Voltaire whole words writings Zeno
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Strana 87 - That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish.
Strana 87 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Strana 183 - Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.
Strana 182 - And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him. And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith ? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also : go forth, and do so.
Strana 25 - I will be wise, And just, and free, and mild, if in me lies Such power, for I grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannise Without reproach or check.
Strana 86 - There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious.
Strana 180 - The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb...
Strana 181 - Then he said, I pray, thee, therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house ; for I have five brethren ; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
Strana 94 - This decaying sense, when we would express the thing itself (I mean fancy itself) we call Imagination, as I said before: but when we would express the decay, and signify that the sense is fading, old and past, it is called Memory. So that imagination and memory are but one thing which for divers considerations hath divers names.
Strana 182 - A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof (Jer.5:22-31).