The Light of Nature Pursued, Том 2Hilliard and Brown, 1831 |
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abstrac action Aion Almighty animalcule appear apprehend body cerning conceive conduct continually course courses of nature creatures depend desire discern divine earth effect employed endeavors enjoyment Epicurus equal eternal ether evil exert experience fancy Fate fibres foetus free agent Freewill give hand happiness heaven human hurt ideas imagination infinite instruments of action integument judgment justice knowledge liberty light likewise Locke lying mankind manner matter ment mind mischief motions motives mundane soul nature nature of things necessary necessity never Nevertheless objects observed operation organs ourselves Ovum pains particles particular pass perceptions pericranium persons Plato pleasure present produce proper Providence punishment purpose reason receive says second causes sense sensory sentiments soever spirits substance suppose terrestrial animals Thalassian thereby thereto things thou thought tion tunicle turn understand unless Urania vehicle virtue whence wherein whereof whole wisdom
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Стр. 110 - For hedge nor ditch they spared not, But after her they hie them ; A cobweb over them they throw, To shield the wind if it should blow ; Themselves they wisely could bestow Lest any should espy them.
Стр. 111 - But now secure the painted vessel glides, The sunbeams trembling on the floating tides : While melting music steals upon the sky, And softened sounds along the waters die ; Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play, Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay.
Стр. 421 - ... can cure. If those who hear not Moses and the Prophets would not believe though one rose from the dead ; neither would he that is not touched with a thousand years of severest punishment, be moved with an eternity.
Стр. 38 - ... support the slender shell he treads upon ? Do the magnetic effluvia course incessantly over land and sea, only to turn here and there a mariner's compass ? Are those immense bodies, the fixed stars, hung up for nothing but to twinkle in our eyes by night, or to find employment for a few astronomers ? Surely, he must have an overweening conceit of man's importance, who can imagine this stupendous frame of the universe made for him alone.
Стр. 254 - Therefore, the more a man thinks, he will discover natural causes lying itill further and further behind one another : he will find his idea of interposing Providence gradually diminish, and that of the disposing proportionably increase. Therefore, let not men condemn one another too hastily of impiety or superstition, for both are relative to the strength of each person's, sight. The philosopher may entertain so high an opinion of infinite wisdom, as that upon the formation of a world, it might...
Стр. 111 - Dixit, et avertens rosea cervice refulsit, ambrosiaeque comae divinum vertice odorem spiravere, pedes vestis defluxit ad imos, et vera incessu patuit dea.
Стр. 299 - ... or no. This logic would hardly prevail upon Tim to stop his speed for a moment. Or suppose another subtle refiner sets the matter in a different light. Tim, says he, is a mere machine in this case, utterly destitute of liberty; for not only his getting the money, but his rummaging the sack is foreknown; so his action is certain and necessary, nor can he help rummaging any more than the great clock can help striking.
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