Half-hours with the freethinkers, ed. by J. Watts, 'Iconoclast', and A. CollinsJohn Watts 1857 |
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Strana 12
... passions already developed ; of those laws which have reference to a language and a social order here- after to be produced ; of that God , whose attributes are abstractions of the knowledge of nature , and the idea of whose conduct is ...
... passions already developed ; of those laws which have reference to a language and a social order here- after to be produced ; of that God , whose attributes are abstractions of the knowledge of nature , and the idea of whose conduct is ...
Strana 13
... passions the great agents of nature ; he thought by vain sounds and useless practices to change their inflexible laws . Fatal error ! He desired that the water should ascend , the mountains be removed , the stone mount in the air ; and ...
... passions the great agents of nature ; he thought by vain sounds and useless practices to change their inflexible laws . Fatal error ! He desired that the water should ascend , the mountains be removed , the stone mount in the air ; and ...
Strana 27
... passion's wandering wing , How swift the step of reason's firmer tread , How calm and sweet the victories of life , How terrorless the triumph of the grave ! How powerless were the mightiest monarch's arm , Vain his loud threat and ...
... passion's wandering wing , How swift the step of reason's firmer tread , How calm and sweet the victories of life , How terrorless the triumph of the grave ! How powerless were the mightiest monarch's arm , Vain his loud threat and ...
Strana 29
... passions change , Seeva , Buddh , Foh , Jehovah , God , or Lord , Even with the human dupes who build his shrines . Still serving o'er the war - polluted world For desolation's watch - word ; whether hosts Stain his death - blushing ...
... passions change , Seeva , Buddh , Foh , Jehovah , God , or Lord , Even with the human dupes who build his shrines . Still serving o'er the war - polluted world For desolation's watch - word ; whether hosts Stain his death - blushing ...
Strana 31
... passion will touch the enchanted chord , and reanimate in those who have ever experienced these emotions , the sleeping , the cold , the buried image of the past . Poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beau- tiful in the ...
... passion will touch the enchanted chord , and reanimate in those who have ever experienced these emotions , the sleeping , the cold , the buried image of the past . Poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beau- tiful in the ...
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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).