The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 31R. Griffiths, 1764 - Books |
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... should have entirely overlooked it , or confounded it with that quality of bodies which we call Hardnefs , to which it hath not the leaft fimilitude . May we not hence conclude , That the knowlege of the human faculties is but in its ...
... should have entirely overlooked it , or confounded it with that quality of bodies which we call Hardnefs , to which it hath not the leaft fimilitude . May we not hence conclude , That the knowlege of the human faculties is but in its ...
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it ; and that if we had never had fuch a feeling , we should ne ver have had any notion of hardness . I think it is evident , that we cannot , by reafoning from our fenfations , collect the exist- ence of bodies at all , far lefs any of ...
it ; and that if we had never had fuch a feeling , we should ne ver have had any notion of hardness . I think it is evident , that we cannot , by reafoning from our fenfations , collect the exist- ence of bodies at all , far lefs any of ...
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... should appear in the form of an ellipfe . The vifible figure , magni- tude , and pofition , may , by mathematical reafoning , be de- duced from the real ; and it may be demonftrated , that every eye that fees diftinctly and perfectly ...
... should appear in the form of an ellipfe . The vifible figure , magni- tude , and pofition , may , by mathematical reafoning , be de- duced from the real ; and it may be demonftrated , that every eye that fees diftinctly and perfectly ...
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... should receive the greatest and most important part of our knowlege by the in- formation of others , hath , for thefe purposes , implanted in our natures two principles that tally with each other . The first of thefe principles is , a ...
... should receive the greatest and most important part of our knowlege by the in- formation of others , hath , for thefe purposes , implanted in our natures two principles that tally with each other . The first of thefe principles is , a ...
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... should take no man's word until we had pofitive evidence that he fpoke truth . His teftimony would , in this cafe , have no more authority than his dreams ; which may be true or false , but no man is difpofed to believe them , on this ...
... should take no man's word until we had pofitive evidence that he fpoke truth . His teftimony would , in this cafe , have no more authority than his dreams ; which may be true or false , but no man is difpofed to believe them , on this ...
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Page 354 - And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.
Page 353 - And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying ; All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him. Then said Jesus unto them ; Be not afraid ; go, tell my brethren, that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.
Page 353 - Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here: for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. And go quickly, and tell His disciples that He is risen from the dead ; and, behold, He goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see Him: lo, I have told you.
Page 317 - Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace : And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood ; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.
Page 158 - Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.
Page 11 - They serve to direct us in the common affairs of life, where our reasoning faculty would leave us in the dark. They are a part of our constitution; and all the discoveries of our reason are grounded upon them. They make up what is called the common sense of mankind; and, what is manifestly contrary to any of those first principles, is what we call absurd.
Page 416 - Given the number of times in which an unknown event has happened and failed : Required the chance that the probability of its happening in a single trial lies somewhere between any two degrees of probability that can be named.
Page 7 - Another original principle, implanted in us by the Supreme Being, is a disposition to confide in the veracity of others, and to believe what they tell us.
Page 159 - Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: Thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
Page 200 - In the month of May it buries itself in the earth and begins to vegetate. By the latter end of July, the tree is arrived at its full growth, and resembles a coral branch, and is about three inches high, and bears several little pods, which, dropping off, become worms, and from thence flies, like the English caterpillar.