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... receive profit and delight , yet they are all within his own breast , invisible and hidden from others , nor can of themselves be made ap- pear . The comfort and advantage of society not being to be had without communication of thoughts ...
... receive profit and delight , yet they are all within his own breast , invisible and hidden from others , nor can of themselves be made ap- pear . The comfort and advantage of society not being to be had without communication of thoughts ...
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... received this explication in his own language , that it was " actus entis in potentia quatenus in potentia ; " I ask whether any one can imagine he could thereby have under- stood what the word " beweeginge " signified ; or have guessed ...
... received this explication in his own language , that it was " actus entis in potentia quatenus in potentia ; " I ask whether any one can imagine he could thereby have under- stood what the word " beweeginge " signified ; or have guessed ...
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... received into his mind by the proper inlet the simple idea which any word stands for , can never come to know the signification of that word by any other words or sounds whatsoever , put together according to any rules of definition ...
... received into his mind by the proper inlet the simple idea which any word stands for , can never come to know the signification of that word by any other words or sounds whatsoever , put together according to any rules of definition ...
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... receive direction from it , would any one question whether it wanted anything essential ? It would be absurd to ask , whether a thing really existing wanted anything essential to it ; or could it be demanded , whether this made an ...
... receive direction from it , would any one question whether it wanted anything essential ? It would be absurd to ask , whether a thing really existing wanted anything essential to it ; or could it be demanded , whether this made an ...
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... received as being of one species , have yet qua- lities depending on their real constitutious , as far different one from another as from others from which they are accounted to differ specifically . This , as it is easy to be ...
... received as being of one species , have yet qua- lities depending on their real constitutious , as far different one from another as from others from which they are accounted to differ specifically . This , as it is easy to be ...
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Page 340 - For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Page 390 - As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Page 342 - How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die, "And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
Page 299 - Him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon, i with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of...
Page 103 - It is evident how much men love to deceive, and be deceived, since rhetoric, that powerful instrument of error and deceit, has its established professors, is publicly taught, and has always been had in great reputation...
Page 7 - ... ideas become general, by separating from them the circumstances of time, and place, and any other ideas, that may determine them to this or that particular existence. By this way of abstraction they are made capable of representing more individuals than one ; each of which having in it a conformity to that abstract idea, is (as we call it) of that sort.
Page 301 - ... revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God immediately; which reason vouches the truth of, by the testimony and proofs it gives that they come from God. So that he that takes away reason to make way for revelation, puts out the light of both...
Page 338 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Page 275 - But God has not been so sparing to men to make them barely two-legged creatures, and left it to Aristotle to make them rational.
Page 318 - The third branch may be called eriftiunxri, or " the doctrine of signs," the most usual whereof being words, it is aptly enough termed also Xoyixr), " logic;" the business whereof is to consider the nature of signs the mind makes use of for the understanding of things, or conveying its knowledge to others.