Alciphron: Or, the Minute Philosopher. In Seven Dialogues. Containing an Apology for the Christian Religion, Against Those who are Called Free-thinkers. ...

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J. Tonson, 1732 - Всего страниц: 358
 

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Стр. 109 - I am apt to think it is still more so of our modern English. Something there is in our climate and complexion, that makes idleness nowhere so much its own punishment as in England, where an uneducated fine gentleman pays for his momentary pleasures, with long and cruel intervals of spleen...
Стр. 27 - Crito, the modern free-thinkers are the very same with those Cicero called minute philosophers, which name admirably suits them, they being a sort of sect which diminish all the most valuable things, the thoughts, views, and hopes, of men ; all the knowledge, notions, and theories, of the mind they reduce to sense ; human nature they contract and degrade to the narrow low standard of animal life, and assign us only a small pittance of time instead of immortality.
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Стр. 109 - There is a cast of thought in the complexion of an Englishman, which renders him the most unsuccessful rake in the world. He is (as Aristotle expresseth it) at variance with himself. He is neither brute enough to enjoy his appetites, nor man enough to govern them.

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