The Dignity of Human Nature: Or, A Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for Attaining the True End of Our Existence. In Four Books ..., Volum 2J. Johnson and J. Payne, 1767 |
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Pàgina 24
... motion , and fubftance , being endlessly various , and fub- ject to perpetual change . That nothing material could have been the neceffarily existent first cause is evident , because we know , that all ma- terial fubftances confift of a ...
... motion , and fubftance , being endlessly various , and fub- ject to perpetual change . That nothing material could have been the neceffarily existent first cause is evident , because we know , that all ma- terial fubftances confift of a ...
Pàgina 46
... motion , every tendency to motion , in every single atom of matter in the uni- verse , must be effected by the agency of fome living principle . And without being acted by fome living principle , no one atom of matter in- the universe ...
... motion , every tendency to motion , in every single atom of matter in the uni- verse , must be effected by the agency of fome living principle . And without being acted by fome living principle , no one atom of matter in- the universe ...
Pàgina 47
... motions and revolutions , all the tendencies and inclina- tions , as they are commonly , for want of better terms , called ; all the laws of nature , the cohesion of bodies , the attraction and gravitation of pla- nets , the efflux of ...
... motions and revolutions , all the tendencies and inclina- tions , as they are commonly , for want of better terms , called ; all the laws of nature , the cohesion of bodies , the attraction and gravitation of pla- nets , the efflux of ...
Pàgina 52
... motion by its own nature ; it follows , that it may , for any thing we know , think and act in one state as well as another ; in a future as well as in the prefent . If it were poffible to conceive of a ma- terial , thinking , and felf ...
... motion by its own nature ; it follows , that it may , for any thing we know , think and act in one state as well as another ; in a future as well as in the prefent . If it were poffible to conceive of a ma- terial , thinking , and felf ...
Pàgina 79
... ma- chine ; a weight , or a spring , would have been fufficient to make him perform his motions . Were there nothing in man but the mere animal G powers , powers , were he capable of being wrought to no- HUMAN NATURE . 79.
... ma- chine ; a weight , or a spring , would have been fufficient to make him perform his motions . Were there nothing in man but the mere animal G powers , powers , were he capable of being wrought to no- HUMAN NATURE . 79.
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 323 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Pàgina 323 - Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain : Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters : who maketh the clouds his chariot ; who walketh upon the wings of the wind...
Pàgina 371 - Whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation. And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he doeth according to his will in the armies of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth...
Pàgina 324 - I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the Lord.
Pàgina 440 - vifions, and behold one, like the SoN oF MAN, " came with the clouds of heaven, and came to ** the antient of days, and they brought him ** near before him.
Pàgina 166 - I must confess I think it is below reasonable creatures to be altogether conversant in such diversions as are merely innocent, and have nothing else to recommend them, but that there is no hurt in them. Whether any kind of gaming has even thus much to...
Pàgina 436 - Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, till the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled...
Pàgina 496 - If your treasure be in the world, so is the love of your hearts. And if ye love the world, and the things of the world, the love of God is not in you ; and the love of God is the love of his commandments ; and he that loveth not God's commandments...
Pàgina 354 - God is the God of the Gentiles, as well as of the Jews; and has concluded them all in unbelief, only that he might have mercy upon all.
Pàgina 438 - The prediction of Ifaiah is ftill clearer : ch. ix. 6, 7. " unto us a child is born, unto us a fon is " given, and the government fhall be upon his fhoulders ; and his " name fhall be called * Wonderful, Counfellor, the Mighty God, ." the Everlafting Father, the Prince of Peace : of the increafe of " his government and peace there fhall be no end, upon the throne