An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religionT. Cadell, London ; and, 1793 |
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... authority , but is not even reftrained within the limits of nature and reality . To form mon- fters , and join incongruous fhapes and appearances , cofts the imagination no more trouble than to conceive the most natural and familiar ...
... authority , but is not even reftrained within the limits of nature and reality . To form mon- fters , and join incongruous fhapes and appearances , cofts the imagination no more trouble than to conceive the most natural and familiar ...
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... authority of experience , or to reject that great guide of human life , it may furely be allowed a philosopher to have fo much curi- ofity at least as to examine the principle of human na- ture , which gives this mighty authority to ...
... authority of experience , or to reject that great guide of human life , it may furely be allowed a philosopher to have fo much curi- ofity at least as to examine the principle of human na- ture , which gives this mighty authority to ...
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... authority ; and that principle will preferve its influence as long as human nature remains the fame . What that principle is , may well be worth the pains of inquiry . Suppose a perfon , though endowed with the ftrong- eft faculties of ...
... authority ; and that principle will preferve its influence as long as human nature remains the fame . What that principle is , may well be worth the pains of inquiry . Suppose a perfon , though endowed with the ftrong- eft faculties of ...
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... authority over all its ideas , it could voluntarily annex this particular idea to any fiction , and confequently be able to believe whatever it pleases , contrary to what we find by daily experience . We can , in our conception , join ...
... authority over all its ideas , it could voluntarily annex this particular idea to any fiction , and confequently be able to believe whatever it pleases , contrary to what we find by daily experience . We can , in our conception , join ...
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... authority , in proportion as we have found it to be more or lefs fre- quent . It is more probable , in almost every country of Europe , that there will be froft fome time in Janu- ary , than that the weather will continue open through ...
... authority , in proportion as we have found it to be more or lefs fre- quent . It is more probable , in almost every country of Europe , that there will be froft fome time in Janu- ary , than that the weather will continue open through ...
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Seite 555 - Dire was the tossing, deep the groans : Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invoked With vows, as their chief good, and final hope.
Seite 174 - But another man, who never took the pains to observe the demonstration, hearing a mathematician, a man of credit, affirm the three angles of a triangle to be equal to two right ones, assents to it, ie receives it for true.
Seite 548 - ... as impossible for him not to exist as for twice two not to be four. But it is evident that this can never happen, while our faculties remain the same as at present.
Seite 147 - So that, upon the whole, we may conclude that the Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity. And whoever is moved by faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most...
Seite 502 - Galileo's famous Dialogues* concerning the system of the world, we shall find that that great genius, one of the sublimest that ever existed, first bent all his endeavours to prove that there was no foundation for the distinction...
Seite 554 - Man alone, said Demea, seems to be, in part, an exception to this rule. For by combination in society he can easily master lions, tigers, and bears, whose greater strength and agility naturally enable them to prey upon him. On the contrary, it is here chiefly, cried Philo, that the uniform and equal maxims of nature are most apparent Man, it is true, can, by combination, surmount all his real enemies and become master of the whole animal creation; but does he not immediately...
Seite 556 - All the goods of life united would not make a very happy man: But all the ills united would make a wretch indeed; and any one of them almost (and who can be free from every one), nay often the absence of one good (and who can possess all) is sufficient to render life ineligible.
Seite 480 - To whatever length any one may push his speculative principles of scepticism, he must act, I own, and live, and converse like other men ; and for this conduct he is not obliged to give any other reason, than the absolute necessity he lies under of so doing.
Seite 30 - The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation. We may observe a like distinction to run through all the other perceptions of the mind. A man, in a fit of anger, is actuated in a very different manner from one who only thinks of that emotion.
Seite 134 - Prodigies, omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure the few natural events that are intermingled with them. But as the former grow thinner every page, in proportion as we advance nearer the enlightened ages, we soon learn that there is nothing mysterious or supernatural in the case, but that all proceeds from the usual propensity of mankind towards the...