An enquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An enquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religionA. Miller, 1768 |
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... first view , may feem more unbounded than the thought of man , which not only efcapes all human power and authority , but is not even reftrained within the limits of na- ture and reality . To form monfters , and join incongruous shapes ...
... first view , may feem more unbounded than the thought of man , which not only efcapes all human power and authority , but is not even reftrained within the limits of na- ture and reality . To form monfters , and join incongruous shapes ...
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... First , When we analyse our thoughts or ideas , however compounded or fublime , we always find , that they refolve themselves into fuch fimple ideas as were copied from a precedent feeling or fentiment . Even those ideas , which , at ...
... First , When we analyse our thoughts or ideas , however compounded or fublime , we always find , that they refolve themselves into fuch fimple ideas as were copied from a precedent feeling or fentiment . Even those ideas , which , at ...
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... first setting out , if not in the compofition of the whole work . A production without a design would resemble more the ravings of a madman , than the fober efforts of genius and learning . As this rule admits of no exception , it ...
... first setting out , if not in the compofition of the whole work . A production without a design would resemble more the ravings of a madman , than the fober efforts of genius and learning . As this rule admits of no exception , it ...
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... First . All poetry , being a species of painting , approaches us nearer to the objects than any other fpecies of narration , throws a stronger light upon them , and delineates more dif → tinctly those minute circumstances , which ...
... First . All poetry , being a species of painting , approaches us nearer to the objects than any other fpecies of narration , throws a stronger light upon them , and delineates more dif → tinctly those minute circumstances , which ...
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... first view , and from an abstract confideration , we should leaft expect to find it .. ' Tis evident , that HOMER , in the courfe of his narration , exceeds the first propofition of his subject ; and that the anger of ACHILLES , which ...
... first view , and from an abstract confideration , we should leaft expect to find it .. ' Tis evident , that HOMER , in the courfe of his narration , exceeds the first propofition of his subject ; and that the anger of ACHILLES , which ...
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Seite 483 - Stock, stone, or other homely pedigree, In his defence his servants are as bold As if he had been born of beaten gold. The Jewish Rabbins, though their enemies, In this conclude them honest men and wise ; For 'twas their duty, all the learned think, T" espouse his cause by whom they eat and drink.
Seite 37 - Adam, though his rational faculties be supposed, at the very first, entirely perfect, could not have inferred from the fluidity and transparency of water that it would suffocate him, or from the light and warmth of fire that it would consume him.
Seite 23 - It is evident, that there is a principle of connexion between the different thoughts or ideas of the mind, and that, in their appearance to the memory or imagination, they introduce each other with a certain degree of method and regularity.
Seite 57 - Without the influence of custom, we should be entirely ignorant of every matter of fact beyond what is immediately present to the memory and senses. We should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in the production of any effect. There would be an end at once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation.
Seite 81 - ... our comprehension? We may, therefore, conclude from the whole, I hope, without any temerity, though with assurance; that our idea of power is not copied from any sentiment or consciousness of power within ourselves, when we give rise to animal motion, or apply our limbs to their proper use and office. That their motion follows the command of the will is a matter of common experience, like other natural events : But the power or energy by which this is effected, like that in other natural events,...
Seite 150 - Upon the whole, then, it appears that no testimony for any kind of miracle has ever amounted to a probability, much less to a proof; and that, even supposing it amounted to a proof, it would be opposed by another proof; derived from the very nature of the fact, which it would endeavour to establish.
Seite 152 - I am the better pleased with the method of reasoning here delivered, as I think it may serve to confound those dangerous friends or disguised enemies to the Christian Religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is, by no means, fitted to endure.
Seite 182 - 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 114 - Actions are, by their very nature, temporary and perishing; and where they proceed not from some cause in the...
Seite 135 - ... person should either deceive or be deceived, or that the fact, which he relates, should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other; and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision, and always reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates; then, and not till then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion.