A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With Reflections on Atheistical Philosophy, Now Exemplified in France, Band 4T. Becket, 1794 |
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... instance , only , at pain and affliction , the result of mere matter and motion , the necessary con- sequence of a material physical system , imposed for no end , and whose issues are death present , and death eternal , this is such ...
... instance , only , at pain and affliction , the result of mere matter and motion , the necessary con- sequence of a material physical system , imposed for no end , and whose issues are death present , and death eternal , this is such ...
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... instance , however , I have given , from that most ancient and most sublime book of Job , is sufficient to prove , that there then existed a lively belief in a future state . Could Moses be igno- rant of the immortality of the soul ...
... instance , however , I have given , from that most ancient and most sublime book of Job , is sufficient to prove , that there then existed a lively belief in a future state . Could Moses be igno- rant of the immortality of the soul ...
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... instance of this ; and so is human life . Thus vegetable bodies , and those of animals , though possibly formed at once , yet grow up by degrees to a mature state . And those rational agents , who animate these latter bodies , are ...
... instance of this ; and so is human life . Thus vegetable bodies , and those of animals , though possibly formed at once , yet grow up by degrees to a mature state . And those rational agents , who animate these latter bodies , are ...
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... of truth . Piety and philosophy have as often been at variance , as in unison . The connections which have been adduced in some instances , in- * Buffier . stead stead of leading to a divine mind , as the 88 LETTER LXV .
... of truth . Piety and philosophy have as often been at variance , as in unison . The connections which have been adduced in some instances , in- * Buffier . stead stead of leading to a divine mind , as the 88 LETTER LXV .
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... instance , is neither performed by reason , nor by habit . Is not the constant direction of Deity therefore necessary ? Is it not necessary also in the formation of animals , as well as vegetables ? And farther , when the little living ...
... instance , is neither performed by reason , nor by habit . Is not the constant direction of Deity therefore necessary ? Is it not necessary also in the formation of animals , as well as vegetables ? And farther , when the little living ...
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Seite 45 - For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another ; though my reins be consumed within me.
Seite 241 - Let us only, if you please, to take leave of this subject, reflect, upon this occasion, on the vanity and transient glory of all this habitable world ; how, by the force of one element breaking loose upon the rest, all the varieties of nature, all the works of art, all the labours of men, are reduced to nothing; all that we admired and adored before, as great...
Seite 28 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts ; even one thing befalleth them : as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath ; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast : for all is vanity. All go unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Seite 292 - Let the motive be in the deed, and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward. Let not thy life be spent in inaction.
Seite 30 - Earth in the following manner : ' For what is this life but a circulation of little mean actions? We lie down and rise again, dress and undress, feed and wax hungry, work or play, and are weary, and then we lie down again, and the circle returns. We spend the day in trifles, and when the night comes we throw ourselves into the bed of folly, amongst dreams, and broken thoughts, and wild imaginations. Our reason lies asleep by us, and we are for the time as arrant brutes as those that sleep in the...
Seite 241 - Here stood the Alps, a prodigious range of stone, the load of the earth, that covered many countries, and reached their arms from the ocean to the Black Sea ; this huge mass of stone is softened and dissolved, as a tender cloud, into rain. Here stood the African mountains, and Atlas with his top above the clouds.
Seite 292 - have abandoned all thought of the fruit which " is produced from their actions, are freed from " the chains of birth, and go to the regions of
Seite 402 - O Oscar ! bend the strong in amt : but spare the feeble hand. Be thou a stream of many tides against the foes of thy people ; but like the gale that moves the grass, to those who ask thine aid. So Trenmor lived ; such Trathal was ; and such has Fingal been. My arm was the support of the injured ; the weak rested behind the lightning of my steel.
Seite 24 - For it is ridiculous to attempt to prove the truth of those perceptions, whose truth we can no otherwise prove, than by other perceptions of exactly the same kind with them, and which there is just the same ground to suspect ; or to attempt to prove the truth of our faculties, which can no otherwise be proved, than by the use or means of those very suspected faculties themselves.
Seite 224 - Fasts, mortifications, and penances, all rigid, and many of them excruciating to an extreme degree, were the means employed to appease the wrath of their gods, and the Mexicans never approached their altars without sprinkling them with blood drawn from their own bodies.