The Works of the Late Right Honorable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, Band 5P. Byrne, Grafton Street, 1793 |
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Seite 401 - His happiness exceeds that of his fellow creatures, at least as much as the dignity of his nature exceeds the dignity of theirs : and is not this enough ? We ought to think that it is enough : and yet God has done more for us. He has made us happy, and he has put it into our power to make ourselves happier by a due use of our reason, which leads us to the practice of moral virtue and of all the duties of society.
Seite 377 - ... that he may exalt our faith, that he may appear God indeed, or that we may be well assured concerning a future account, and forced in our thoughts to recur thither for a resolution of all emergent doubts and difficulties. Such...
Seite 394 - ... to the part he is to act. If man was a creature inferior or superior to what he is, he would be a very preposterous creature in this system.
Seite 76 - There are many curious researches, no doubt, and many excellent observations in these writers; but they seem to be great writers on this subject by much the same right, as he might be called a great traveller, who should go from London to Paris by the Cape of Good Hope.
Seite 254 - In the first character, they made it necessary that he should neglect nothing which might add weight to his ordinances, and contribute to keep them in awe. In the second, their disposition was extremely proper to receive such a doctrine, and to be influenced by it. Shall we...
Seite 401 - We are designed to be social, not solitary creatures. Mutual wants unite us : and natural benevolence and political order, on which our happiness depends, are founded in them.
Seite 33 - In effe&, it is fomething imperfeft, that cannot exift j an Idea wherein fome Parts of feveral different and inconfiftent Ideas are put together.
Seite 254 - Deuteronomy, most pathetically held out by Moses? Would there have been any more impropriety in holding out those of one kind, than...
Seite 375 - God cannot be conceived, without manifest presumption and impiety, to be " the same as in the ideas we frame of these perfections, when we consider them in men, or when we reason about them...
Seite 448 - ... from vice, and those which happen to all men in the ordinary course of events, were exposed to others that the hand of God inflicted on them in an extraordinary manner; in...