A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With Reflections on Atheistical Philosophy, Now Exemplified in France, Band 4T. Becket, 1794 |
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... ments from the influence of the doctrine on the virtue and happiness of mankind --- the folly and inhumanity of attempting to deprive men of this hope --- our know- ledge of the mode of future existence very imperfect -Doctrines of the ...
... ments from the influence of the doctrine on the virtue and happiness of mankind --- the folly and inhumanity of attempting to deprive men of this hope --- our know- ledge of the mode of future existence very imperfect -Doctrines of the ...
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... ments . It is vain to employ profound thought , and intense application , in attempting to explore the secrets of the invisible world . Philosophers , on this ground , are merely on a level with the rest of mankind . They may consume ...
... ments . It is vain to employ profound thought , and intense application , in attempting to explore the secrets of the invisible world . Philosophers , on this ground , are merely on a level with the rest of mankind . They may consume ...
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... ment . For as it is evident , the human body is no one day together the same , that is , com- posed of the same particles , so it will follow , that if matter is supposed to think , there can be no personal identity , nor can a man ...
... ment . For as it is evident , the human body is no one day together the same , that is , com- posed of the same particles , so it will follow , that if matter is supposed to think , there can be no personal identity , nor can a man ...
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... ment , I think the following conclusion would be the more natural and obvious . I find no such thing as sensation , perception , and thought , in any modification of matter , except one ; and those qualities being exceedingly different ...
... ment , I think the following conclusion would be the more natural and obvious . I find no such thing as sensation , perception , and thought , in any modification of matter , except one ; and those qualities being exceedingly different ...
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... ments , nor consequently , the personality consti- tuted by it . Whence it would follow , that it is a fallacy to charge our present selves with any thing we did , or to imagine our present selves interested Bishop Butler . interested ...
... ments , nor consequently , the personality consti- tuted by it . Whence it would follow , that it is a fallacy to charge our present selves with any thing we did , or to imagine our present selves interested Bishop Butler . interested ...
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Seite 45 - For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another ; though my reins be consumed within me.
Seite 241 - Let us only, if you please, to take leave of this subject, reflect, upon this occasion, on the vanity and transient glory of all this habitable world ; how, by the force of one element breaking loose upon the rest, all the varieties of nature, all the works of art, all the labours of men, are reduced to nothing; all that we admired and adored before, as great...
Seite 28 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts ; even one thing befalleth them : as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath ; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast : for all is vanity. All go unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Seite 292 - Let the motive be in the deed, and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward. Let not thy life be spent in inaction.
Seite 30 - Earth in the following manner : ' For what is this life but a circulation of little mean actions? We lie down and rise again, dress and undress, feed and wax hungry, work or play, and are weary, and then we lie down again, and the circle returns. We spend the day in trifles, and when the night comes we throw ourselves into the bed of folly, amongst dreams, and broken thoughts, and wild imaginations. Our reason lies asleep by us, and we are for the time as arrant brutes as those that sleep in the...
Seite 241 - Here stood the Alps, a prodigious range of stone, the load of the earth, that covered many countries, and reached their arms from the ocean to the Black Sea ; this huge mass of stone is softened and dissolved, as a tender cloud, into rain. Here stood the African mountains, and Atlas with his top above the clouds.
Seite 292 - have abandoned all thought of the fruit which " is produced from their actions, are freed from " the chains of birth, and go to the regions of
Seite 402 - O Oscar ! bend the strong in amt : but spare the feeble hand. Be thou a stream of many tides against the foes of thy people ; but like the gale that moves the grass, to those who ask thine aid. So Trenmor lived ; such Trathal was ; and such has Fingal been. My arm was the support of the injured ; the weak rested behind the lightning of my steel.
Seite 24 - For it is ridiculous to attempt to prove the truth of those perceptions, whose truth we can no otherwise prove, than by other perceptions of exactly the same kind with them, and which there is just the same ground to suspect ; or to attempt to prove the truth of our faculties, which can no otherwise be proved, than by the use or means of those very suspected faculties themselves.
Seite 224 - Fasts, mortifications, and penances, all rigid, and many of them excruciating to an extreme degree, were the means employed to appease the wrath of their gods, and the Mexicans never approached their altars without sprinkling them with blood drawn from their own bodies.