On natural theologyR. Carter, 1840 |
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Արդյունքներ 83–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... light of Nature whether of His existence or His character or His ways . In the following treatise we do not rigo- rously adhere to any of these methods though we hold it incumbent upon us , to clear away the inju- rious metaphysics , in ...
... light of Nature whether of His existence or His character or His ways . In the following treatise we do not rigo- rously adhere to any of these methods though we hold it incumbent upon us , to clear away the inju- rious metaphysics , in ...
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... light of nature in respect to its power of discovering either the character or still less the counsels and the ways of God . In this concluding part of the treatise , beside recording the efforts which Philosophy has made , and to what ...
... light of nature in respect to its power of discovering either the character or still less the counsels and the ways of God . In this concluding part of the treatise , beside recording the efforts which Philosophy has made , and to what ...
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... light than that of experience . This question lies without the domain of the Induc- tive Philosophy , and the science to whose cogni- zance it belongs shines upon us by the light of its own immediate evidence . There may have been a ...
... light than that of experience . This question lies without the domain of the Induc- tive Philosophy , and the science to whose cogni- zance it belongs shines upon us by the light of its own immediate evidence . There may have been a ...
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... lights us on from one truth or property to another . The objects meaning , as comprehensive of the duties owing to God in heaven , as well as to our fellow - men upon earth . or data of the science are ascertained by the evi- 24 ETHICS ...
... lights us on from one truth or property to another . The objects meaning , as comprehensive of the duties owing to God in heaven , as well as to our fellow - men upon earth . or data of the science are ascertained by the evi- 24 ETHICS ...
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... light in the one science , and a mathematical light in the other , we arrive at the ethics of the first science , at the mathematics of the second , without the aid of the inductive philosophy . 12. It is interesting to note if aught ...
... light in the one science , and a mathematical light in the other , we arrive at the ethics of the first science , at the mathematics of the second , without the aid of the inductive philosophy . 12. It is interesting to note if aught ...
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Էջ 248 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Էջ 253 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
Էջ 129 - When two species of objects have always been observed to be conjoined together, I can infer, by custom, the existence of one wherever I see the existence of the other; and this I call an argument from experience. But how this argument can have place where the objects, as in the present case, are single, individual, without parallel or specific resemblance, may be difficult to explain. And will any man tell me with a...
Էջ 248 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind : and God saw that it was good.
Էջ 130 - And will any man tell me with a serious countenance, that an orderly universe must arise from some thought and art like the human, because we have experience of it ? To ascertain this reasoning, it were requisite that we had experience of the origin of worlds ; and it is not sufficient, surely, that we have seen ships and cities arise from human art and contrivance.
Էջ 53 - ... nee erit alia lex Romae, alia Athenis, alia nunc, alia posthac, sed et omnes gentes et omni tempore una lex et sempiterna et immutabilis continebit, unusque erit communis quasi magister et imperator omnium deus, ille legis huius inventor, disceptator, lator; cui qui non parebit, ipse se fugiet ac naturam hominis aspernatus hoc ipso luet maximas poenas, etiamsi cetera supplicia, quae putantur, effugerit...
Էջ 226 - For it became Him who created them to set them in order. And if He did so, it is unphilosophical to seek for any other origin of the world, or to pretend that it might arise out of a chaos by the mere laws of Nature; though being once formed, it may continue by those laws for many ages.
Էջ 354 - The two are distinct of themselves ; but the contingent union of them, in the case of every virtuous affection, gives a multiple force to the conclusion, that God is the lover, and, because so, the patron or the rewarder of virtue. He hath so constituted our nature, that, in the very flow and exercise of the good affections, there shall be the oil of gladness. There is instant delight in the first conception of benevolence. There is sustained delight in its continued exercise. There is consummated...
Էջ 62 - The wonder, then, turns on the great process, by which a man could grow to the immense intelligence that can know that there is no God. What ages and what lights are requisite for THIS attainment ! This intelligence involves the very attributes of Divinity, while a God is denied: for unless this man is omnipresent, unless he is at this moment in every place in the universe, he cannot know but there...
Էջ 321 - Thus, that principle by which we survey, and either approve or disapprove our own heart, temper, and actions, is not only to be considered as what is in its turn to have some influence ; which may be said of every passion, of the lowest appetites : but likewise as being superior ; as from its very nature manifestly claiming superiority over all others ; insomuch that you cannot form a notion of this faculty, conscience, without taking in judgment...