Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects: In Two Volumes, Band 2George Caw, 1800 - 527 Seiten |
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... merit , and may contri- bute to the entertainment , inftruction , and reformation of mankind . The one confiders man chiefly as born for action ; and as influenced in his measures by taste and fentiment ; pursuing one object , and ...
... merit , and may contri- bute to the entertainment , inftruction , and reformation of mankind . The one confiders man chiefly as born for action ; and as influenced in his measures by taste and fentiment ; pursuing one object , and ...
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... merit , when performed with re- gard to external bodies , the objects of our fenfes , rifes in its value , when directed towards the operations of the mind , in proportion to the difficulty and labour which we meet with in performing it ...
... merit , when performed with re- gard to external bodies , the objects of our fenfes , rifes in its value , when directed towards the operations of the mind , in proportion to the difficulty and labour which we meet with in performing it ...
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... merit , that for it alone we should alter our general maxim . Here , therefore , is a propofition , which not only feems , in itself , fimple and intelligible ; but , if a proper ' ufe were made of it , might render every difpute ...
... merit , that for it alone we should alter our general maxim . Here , therefore , is a propofition , which not only feems , in itself , fimple and intelligible ; but , if a proper ' ufe were made of it , might render every difpute ...
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... merit of our very ignorance . I fhall content myself , in this section , with an easy task , and shall pretend only to give a negative answer to the question here propofed . I fay then , that even after we have experience of the ...
... merit of our very ignorance . I fhall content myself , in this section , with an easy task , and shall pretend only to give a negative answer to the question here propofed . I fay then , that even after we have experience of the ...
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... merit that appellation . And as an uniform experience amounts to a proof , there is here a direct and full proof , from the nature of the fact , against the exiftence of any miracle ; nor can such a proof be destroyed , or the miracle ...
... merit that appellation . And as an uniform experience amounts to a proof , there is here a direct and full proof , from the nature of the fact , against the exiftence of any miracle ; nor can such a proof be destroyed , or the miracle ...
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