The History of the Works of the Learned ..., Volum 1J. Robinson, 1737 Containing impartial accounts and accurate abstracts of the most valuable books published in Great Britain and foreign parts ... |
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Pàgina 6
... true Philofophy , as the Profeffors of it in all the Colleges of Paris could pretend to ; and he does not question , but by this Performance he will convince her , and all that fhall read it without Prejudice , that he is capable , in ...
... true Philofophy , as the Profeffors of it in all the Colleges of Paris could pretend to ; and he does not question , but by this Performance he will convince her , and all that fhall read it without Prejudice , that he is capable , in ...
Pàgina 10
... true Causes and Occa- fions of many hiftorical Events . The greatest En- terprizes fometimes take their Rife from the Jealousy of a Coquette , the Ambition of a Favourite , or the Hatred of a Minifter to his Prince ; and Hiftorians have ...
... true Causes and Occa- fions of many hiftorical Events . The greatest En- terprizes fometimes take their Rife from the Jealousy of a Coquette , the Ambition of a Favourite , or the Hatred of a Minifter to his Prince ; and Hiftorians have ...
Pàgina 14
... true Reasoning but in the fyllogiftick Way , then Reafon and Truth would be the Property of a few Pedants , who had never any confiderable Knowledge of either . Again , if this were the true or best Me- thod of Reafoning , it is not to ...
... true Reasoning but in the fyllogiftick Way , then Reafon and Truth would be the Property of a few Pedants , who had never any confiderable Knowledge of either . Again , if this were the true or best Me- thod of Reafoning , it is not to ...
Pàgina 16
... true Knowledge , fill the Mind with dark and confus'd Ideas , and thereby prove real Ob- ftacles to us in our Searches after Truth : They di- vert the Attention from Things that are neceffary , and within the Reach of all Capacities ...
... true Knowledge , fill the Mind with dark and confus'd Ideas , and thereby prove real Ob- ftacles to us in our Searches after Truth : They di- vert the Attention from Things that are neceffary , and within the Reach of all Capacities ...
Pàgina 31
... true Judg- ment of Things , without being influenc'd by out- ward Appearances , one must needs pronounce him a mere Slave , who has not a Moment to himself , and dares not pass one Night out of the Citadel . He is likewife oblig'd to ...
... true Judg- ment of Things , without being influenc'd by out- ward Appearances , one must needs pronounce him a mere Slave , who has not a Moment to himself , and dares not pass one Night out of the Citadel . He is likewife oblig'd to ...
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Pàgina 318 - A Plain Account of the Nature and End of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, &c 1737.
Pàgina 203 - Learn then," said he, u that the principle of all things is emptiness and nothing, from nothing all things proceeded, and into nothing all will return, and this is the end of all our hopes.
Pàgina 205 - Rewards for thofe that have done well, well, and Punifhments for thofe that have done evil ; that there are Places appointed for the Souls of both, wherein they are fixed according to their Defert ; that the God Fo was born to fave Mankind, and to direct thofe to the Way of Salvation who had ftrayed from it ; that it was he who expiated their Sins, and procured them a happy Birth in the other World ; that there are five Precepts to be obferved, the firft is, not to kill any living Creature ; the...
Pàgina 177 - Collection of some of the principal RULES and MAXIMS of the COMMON LAW, with their Latitude and Extent.
Pàgina 88 - From this vain world, th' abode of guilt and sorrow ! — And yet methinks a beam of light breaks in On my departing soul. Alas ! I fear I've been too hasty.' O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not ! — The best may err, but you are good, and — oh ! [Dies.
Pàgina 210 - Reafoings in Points of Morality are the fame ; they call Li that which eftablifhes the reciprocal Duty between the Prince and the Subject, the Father and the Son, the Husband and the Wife ; they give likewife the Name of Li to the Soul, becaufe it informs the Body, and when it ceafes to inform it, the Li is faid to be deftroyed ; in the fame Manner, fay they, as Ice diflblved by Heat lofe's the Li whereby it became Ice, and reaflumes its Fluidity and natural Being.
Pàgina 347 - Archbishops of that See, from the first Introduction of Christianity into the Northern parts of this Island, to the present state and condition of that magnificent Fabric.
Pàgina ii - A New and Accurate Method of Delineating all the Parts of the different Orders in Architecture, by Means of a...
Pàgina 291 - There is no town in all the king of Prudia's dominions, ' except Neufchatel, where he has not been ; no province ' which he does not know full well ; not a noble family...
Pàgina 437 - A dissertation upon the sacred Cubit of the Jews, and the Cubits of the several nations, in which, from the dimensions of the greatest Egyptian Pyramid, as taken by Mr. Greaves, the ancient cubit of Memphis is determined.