Crito: Or, Essays on Various Subjects. ...Messrs. Dodsley; Becket and de Hondt; White; Payne; and Cooke, 1766 |
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Pàgina 163
... PLATO , XENO- PHON , SENECA , JUVENAL , QUINTILIAN , and others of the ancients , remarking it in their feveral ages . Let those parents , who fcruple to take my opinion on truft , endeavour to adjust their notions of the impor- tant ...
... PLATO , XENO- PHON , SENECA , JUVENAL , QUINTILIAN , and others of the ancients , remarking it in their feveral ages . Let those parents , who fcruple to take my opinion on truft , endeavour to adjust their notions of the impor- tant ...
Pàgina 170
... PLATO , OUTG ar " We must thus conclude concerning " the gods , that God is not the cause of all things ; " but of good only . " But he ( like many others of the ancient philofophers ) is not very eafily reconcile- able with himself on ...
... PLATO , OUTG ar " We must thus conclude concerning " the gods , that God is not the cause of all things ; " but of good only . " But he ( like many others of the ancient philofophers ) is not very eafily reconcile- able with himself on ...
Pàgina 171
... PLATO farther infifts , that evil , natural and moral , is infeparable from the neceflary nature of imperfect beings . But we fee , that the brutes , who are more imperfect beings than we , are lefs expofed to fuffer- ing . And the ...
... PLATO farther infifts , that evil , natural and moral , is infeparable from the neceflary nature of imperfect beings . But we fee , that the brutes , who are more imperfect beings than we , are lefs expofed to fuffer- ing . And the ...
Pàgina 172
... PLATO thinks low appetites proceed of course from an imbodied state . But it is not fo much the low- nefs of the appetite , as its exorbitancy , that makes the being unhappy . The ancients feem to have conclud- ed , that an embodied ...
... PLATO thinks low appetites proceed of course from an imbodied state . But it is not fo much the low- nefs of the appetite , as its exorbitancy , that makes the being unhappy . The ancients feem to have conclud- ed , that an embodied ...
Pàgina 173
... PLATO goes on , and fays , corruption is neceffary , if generation be neceffary . But though corruption were allowed to be neceffary , it would not from thence follow , that the promifcuous diftreffes of human life , and its dreaded ...
... PLATO goes on , and fays , corruption is neceffary , if generation be neceffary . But though corruption were allowed to be neceffary , it would not from thence follow , that the promifcuous diftreffes of human life , and its dreaded ...
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Crito, Or, Essays on Various Subjects. Vol. I.[-II. and Last].. James Burgh Visualització completa - 1766 |
Crito, Or, Essays on Various Subjects. Vol. I.[-II. and Last].. James Burgh Visualització completa - 1766 |
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advantage againſt almoſt anſwer antient becauſe cafe cauſe child chooſe Chriftianity confequence confiderable confiftent CRITO MINOR dæmons defire difpofition diftrefs eſtabliſhed evil expence faid fame father fays fcheme fcripture fecurity feems fentiments ferve feveral fhall fhew fhould finking fund firſt fome fometimes fpeak fpecies fpirits ftate fubject fuccefs fuch fuffer fufficient fuperior fuppofe fupreme fure gods greateſt happineſs HESIOD hiftory himſelf hoftility honour increaſe inftructions intereft itſelf labour leaft learned leaſt lefs mafter Manichæan manner marriage matter moft moral moſt muft muſt nation nature neceffary obferve occafion parents perfons PLATO PLUTARCH pofe poffible prefent pretend propofed publiſhed puniſhment pupil purpoſe raiſed reader reaſon refpect ROUSSEAU ſay ſhall ſpeaking ſtate ſuch teaching thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thouſand tion TYPHON underſtand univerfe uſe vice virtue whofe young perfons youth
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Pàgina 209 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Pàgina 209 - VANITY of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun ? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh : but the earth abideth for ever.
Pàgina 209 - For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Pàgina 209 - For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? "For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
Pàgina 263 - Now is the judgment of this world ; now is the prince of this world cast out, and I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
Pàgina 171 - Father of mercies ! why from silent earth Didst thou awake, and curse me into birth ? Tear me from quiet, ravish me from night, And make a thankless present of thy light ? Push into being a reverse of thee, And animate a clod with misery ? " The beasts are happy; they come forth, and keep Short watch on earth, and then lie down to sleep.
Pàgina 209 - I have feen all the work« which are done under the fun, and behold all is vanity and vexation of fpirit.
Pàgina 150 - Ever anxious concerning his private economy, ever in dread of bankruptcy and poverty, how should he apply a due attention to what is sufficient alone to engage the whole man, with the abilities of an angel, and undisturbed by every other solicitude !" — CBITO, Essays on various Subjects.
Pàgina 62 - Complaifance, as long as the Crown can pay; and Mutiny, when it cannot ; and in general, that Motives of Self-Intereft will prove an improper and weak foundation for our Duty to our King and Country.
Pàgina 217 - There ** are many evils in this world, and men feem ** impelled by a natural inftincl: to the practice " of thofe things which reafon condemns ; but " that eternal mind, from which all fpirits derive " their exiftence, muft be inacceffible to all kinds " of evil, and alfo of a moft perfect and bene...