The Bridgewater Treatises on the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God as Manifested in the Creation, Band 1Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1836 |
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actual adaptation of external affirm anger animal antitheism appetite argument astronomy awaken beauty beneficence beneficial benevolence Bishop Butler bosom cause character collocations compassion connexion conscience creatures Deity demnation demonstration desire distinct divine Dugald Stewart economy emotion enjoyment evidence evil existence external nature faculty felt force former Godhead gratification hand happiness hath heart human imagination important inference inflicted injury instance instinctive intellectual jurisprudence justice labour least lence man's material matter mechanism ment mental constitution mind moral character moral constitution moral nature natural theology nature's object observation operation original pain palpable passions peculiar phenomena philosophy physical pleasure possessory feeling present principle question racter regard respect righteousness sensations sense sensible Sir James Mackintosh society special affections species spirit strength suffering theism things Thomas Brown THOMAS CHALMERS thought tion truth universal vice violence virtue virtuous volition wherewith whole wisdom
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Seite 54 - ... 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...
Seite 53 - Huic legi nee obrogari fas est, neque derogari ex hac aliquid licet, neque tota abrogari potest. Nee vero aut per senatum aut per populum solvi hac lege possumus.
Seite 241 - an act of the mind, knowingly exerting that dominion it takes itself to have over any part of the man, by employing it in or withholding it from any particular action.
Seite 23 - For it became him who created them to set them in order. And if he did so, it's 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 form'd, it may continue by those Laws for many Ages.
Seite 197 - With the inferior animals there is a certain squareness of adjustment, if we may so term it, between each desire and its correspondent gratification. The one is evenly met by the other, and there is a fulness and definiteness of enjoyment up to the capacity of enjoyment. Not so with Man, who, both from the vastness of his propensities and the vastness of his powers, feels himself chained and beset in a field too narrow for him.
Seite 257 - The former, we apprehend, to be the furthest amount of the atheistical verdict on the question of a God. The atheist does not labour to demonstrate that there is no God. But he labours to demonstrate that there is no adequate proof of there being one. He does not positively affirm the position, that God is not ; but he affirms the lack of evidence for the position, that God is.
Seite 38 - ... for the direction of our conduct in this life. They carry along with them the most evident badges of this authority, which denote that they were set up within us to be the supreme arbiters of all our actions, to superintend all our senses, passions and appetites, and to judge how far each of them was either to be indulged or restrained. It is the peculiar office of these faculties to judge, to bestow censure or applause upon all the other principles of our nature.
Seite 258 - 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 may be in some place manifestations of a Deity by which even he would be overpowered.
Seite 42 - ... you cannot form a notion of this faculty, conscience, without taking in judgment, direction, superintendency. This is a constituent part of the idea, that is, of the faculty itself: and to preside and govern, from the very economy and constitution of man, belongs to it. Had it strength, as it has right; had it power, as it has manifest authority, it would absolutely govern the world.
Seite 56 - Tightness, sweet unto the taste of the inner man. Malice, envy, falsehood, injustice, irrespective of their wrongness, have, of themselves, the bitterness of gall and wormwood. The Deity hath annexed a high mental enjoyment, not to the consciousness only of good affections, but to the very sense and feeling of good affections. However closely these may follow on each other— nay, however implicated or blended together they may be at the same mpment into one compound state of feeling — they are...