Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, Band 2A. Millar, 1756 |
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... authority , but is not even re- ftrain'd within the limits of nature and reality . To form monsters , and join incongruous fhapes and ap- pearances , cofts it no more trouble than to conceive the most natural and familiar objects . And ...
... authority , but is not even re- ftrain'd within the limits of nature and reality . To form monsters , and join incongruous fhapes and ap- pearances , cofts it no more trouble than to conceive the most natural and familiar objects . And ...
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... authority to experience , and makes us draw advantage from that fimilarity , which nature has plac'd among different objects . From caufes , which appear fimilar , we expect fimilar effects . This is the fum of all our experimental ...
... authority to experience , and makes us draw advantage from that fimilarity , which nature has plac'd among different objects . From caufes , which appear fimilar , we expect fimilar effects . This is the fum of all our experimental ...
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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 enquiry . SUPPOSE a perfon , tho ' endow'd with the strongest 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 enquiry . SUPPOSE a perfon , tho ' endow'd with the strongest faculties of ...
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... authority , ir proportion as we have found it to be more or less Tis more probable , in every place of E- Septem , chat there will be froft sometime in January , than chas the weather will continue open throughout that whole month ; tho ...
... authority , ir proportion as we have found it to be more or less Tis more probable , in every place of E- Septem , chat there will be froft sometime in January , than chas the weather will continue open throughout that whole month ; tho ...
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... authority would not be more extraordi- nary , nor more beyond our comprehenfion . But if by confcioufnefs we perceiv'd any power or energy in the will , we must know this power ; we muft know its connexion with the effect ; we must know ...
... authority would not be more extraordi- nary , nor more beyond our comprehenfion . But if by confcioufnefs we perceiv'd any power or energy in the will , we must know this power ; we muft know its connexion with the effect ; we must know ...
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Seite 164 - ... and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves ; of such undoubted integrity as to place them beyond all suspicion of any design to deceive others ; of such credit and reputation in the eyes of mankind as to have a great deal to lose in case of...
Seite 159 - But when the fact attested is such a one as has seldom fallen under our observation, here is a contest of two opposite experiences, of which the one destroys the other as far as its force goes ; and the superior can only operate on the mind by the force which remains.
Seite 67 - Where the picture bears him no resemblance, at least was not intended for him, it never so much as conveys our thought to him: and where it is absent, as well as the person, though the mind may pass from the thought of the one to that of the other, it feels its idea to be rather weakened than enlivened by that transition. We take a pleasure in viewing the picture of a friend, when...
Seite 138 - The ultimate Author of all our volitions is the Creator of the world, who first bestowed motion on this immense machine, and placed all beings in that particular position, whence every subsequent event, by an inevitable necessity, must result. Human actions, therefore, either can have no moral turpitude at all...
Seite 91 - ... by which the one is able to operate, in so many instances, upon the other. Secondly, we are not able to move all the organs of the body with a like authority, though we cannot assign any reason besides experience for so remarkable a difference between one and the other. Why has the will an influence over the tongue and fingers, not over the heart or liver?
Seite 168 - 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...
Seite 219 - It is universally allowed by modern enquirers that all the sensible qualities of objects, such as hard, soft, hot, cold, white, black, etc., are merely secondary, and exist not in the objects themselves, but are perceptions of the mind, without any external archetype or model which they represent. If this be allowed with regard to secondary qualities, it must also follow with regard to the supposed primary qualities of extension and solidity ; nor can the latter be any more entitled to that denomination...
Seite 102 - Were our ignorance, therefore, a good reason for rejecting any thing, we should be led into that principle of denying all energy in the Supreme Being as much as in the grossest matter. We surely comprehend as little the operations of one as of the other. Is it more difficult to conceive that motion may arise from impulse than that it may arise from volition? All we know is our profound ignorance in both cases.
Seite 216 - These are the obvious dictates of reason; and no man who reflects ever doubted that the existences which we consider when we say this house and that tree are nothing but perceptions in the mind and fleeting copies or representations of other existences which remain uniform and independent.
Seite 216 - And to justify this pretended philosophical system by a chain of clear and convincing argument, or even any appearance of argument, exceeds the power of all human capacity.