A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With Reflections on Atheistical Philosophy, Now Exemplified in France, المجلد 6T. Becket, 1794 |
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الصفحة vi
... injurious to the cause of Christi- anity - regard to public opinion one of the chief springs of action --- Intellectual pursuits chiefly valu- able able from their connection with the social interests of men vi CONTENTS .
... injurious to the cause of Christi- anity - regard to public opinion one of the chief springs of action --- Intellectual pursuits chiefly valu- able able from their connection with the social interests of men vi CONTENTS .
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... opinions the most comfortable and revered , have uniformly perched themselves upon a pinnacle , whence they have thundered to the world their superior knowledge , their unequalled talents , and the great obligations due to them for ...
... opinions the most comfortable and revered , have uniformly perched themselves upon a pinnacle , whence they have thundered to the world their superior knowledge , their unequalled talents , and the great obligations due to them for ...
الصفحة 2
... opinion which is first impressed by nature , and afterwards confirmed by philosophy , that these rules are the commands and laws of the Deity , who will finally reward the obedient , and punish the transgressors . And thus , upon what ...
... opinion which is first impressed by nature , and afterwards confirmed by philosophy , that these rules are the commands and laws of the Deity , who will finally reward the obedient , and punish the transgressors . And thus , upon what ...
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... opinion , it does not necessarily follow that his opinion is true ; it is only evident , that he believes it to be true . The ancient inhabitants of Europe , as we have seen , sought death with eagerness in the field of battle ; or ...
... opinion , it does not necessarily follow that his opinion is true ; it is only evident , that he believes it to be true . The ancient inhabitants of Europe , as we have seen , sought death with eagerness in the field of battle ; or ...
الصفحة 15
... opinions , which even the sovereigns of the world , and some of the least cruel , the most learned , and the most politic , thought it their interest to bear down and destroy . Those were not weak men , who , in defiance of persecution ...
... opinions , which even the sovereigns of the world , and some of the least cruel , the most learned , and the most politic , thought it their interest to bear down and destroy . Those were not weak men , who , in defiance of persecution ...
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الصفحة 20 - And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
الصفحة 24 - So shall he sprinkle many nations ; The kings shall shut their mouths at him : For that which had not been told them shall they see; And that which they had not heard shall they consider.
الصفحة 371 - To be of no Church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by Faith and Hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
الصفحة 39 - For first, there is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education, and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves; of such undoubted integrity, as to place them beyond all suspicion of any design to deceive others; of such credit and reputation in the eyes of mankind, as to have a great deal to lose in case of their being detected in any falsehood; and at the same time, attesting facts performed in...
الصفحة 68 - And though it is said, this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality...
الصفحة 20 - But when ye shall hear of wars, and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.
الصفحة 20 - If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee ; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another ; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
الصفحة 115 - Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it, 45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
الصفحة 40 - It is experience only which gives authority to human testimony; and it is the same experience which assures us of the laws of nature. When, therefore, these two kinds of experience are contrary, we have nothing to do but to subtract the one from the other, and embrace an opinion either on one side or the other, with that assurance which arises from the remainder.
الصفحة 300 - ... all that toil, all that anxiety, all those mortifications, which must be undergone in the pursuit of it, and, what is of yet more consequence, all that leisure, all that ease, all that careless security, which are forfeited forever by the acquisition.