The Citizen of NatureW. Benbow, 1824 - 238 Seiten |
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... position of the wires and hands , which , unseen , direct their movements . " " But , " I exclaimed , " you hint I have been already misled by appearances ; how do I know but that you will unintentionally deceive me by your expositions ...
... position of the wires and hands , which , unseen , direct their movements . " " But , " I exclaimed , " you hint I have been already misled by appearances ; how do I know but that you will unintentionally deceive me by your expositions ...
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... positions purely local and temporary , it now totters to its base before the mighty engines of knowledge , which batter it forlorn on all sides . Happy are they who escape crush and suffocation from the rubbish which will accompany its ...
... positions purely local and temporary , it now totters to its base before the mighty engines of knowledge , which batter it forlorn on all sides . Happy are they who escape crush and suffocation from the rubbish which will accompany its ...
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... position , if these catastrophes are spoken of in the light of a " Specialty ; " but I can with difficulty bring against Nature a charge of cruelty ; and if these be considered as pro- ceeding from natural causes , they are not one iota ...
... position , if these catastrophes are spoken of in the light of a " Specialty ; " but I can with difficulty bring against Nature a charge of cruelty ; and if these be considered as pro- ceeding from natural causes , they are not one iota ...
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... position , that her polar inclination is not the same as it was a thousand years back : whence is this , to what stupendous results may it not lead ? And this last fact should be a caution to us , not to construe natural phenomena upon ...
... position , that her polar inclination is not the same as it was a thousand years back : whence is this , to what stupendous results may it not lead ? And this last fact should be a caution to us , not to construe natural phenomena upon ...
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... position more difficult to define than to comprehend . While a man's leg is in a healthy state it holds a certain portion of bone , say , for thirty years together ; and yet the bone which is there now , is not the same which will be ...
... position more difficult to define than to comprehend . While a man's leg is in a healthy state it holds a certain portion of bone , say , for thirty years together ; and yet the bone which is there now , is not the same which will be ...
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acquired action animal artificial assert Atheist become belief blood cause certainly chimney sweeper civil clothing common conscience consequence Deism Deist dreadful earth emotion endeavour enjoyment enquiry equality equipoise eternity evil existence eyes faculties fancy father fear feeling fool founded free agency fresh genus Gil Blas give hand happiness HARVARD COLLEGE hear heart Holborn human idea ignorance instance intellect knowledge labour laws ledge LETTER listen look luxuries marriage Maurepas mean ment mental middle men mind misery mode nation natural justice natural law Nature necessity never observe once pain Paradise Lost perhaps persons philanthropy pleasure possession present principles proof reason receive revelation sense slavery sort soul sounds speak species surface tell term thee Theocracy things thou thought tion true truth turn unnatural virtue Whigs
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Seite 160 - The man who resolutely divesting himself of habit and prejudice, of the false impressions imbibed from early childhood, resolves to know Truth, if haply she may be found, is sure to be assailed, threatened, mimicked, and insulted, with abuse the most pitiful and inane, with derision the most paltry, stupid, and futile, wholly unworthy of the exaltation to which human attainmentboasts to have arrived. 'His honesty is decried as presumption, his avowal of naked truth as sedition; his exposure of existing...
Seite 162 - Necker,'that reason suits neither you or me: Sully did not go to mass, and Sully was of the council.' ' Maurepas, in this answer, only caught at the ridicule of...