The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 31R. Griffiths, 1764 - Books |
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... original principle of our conftitution , a certain fenfation of touch both fuggefts to the mind the conception of hardness , and creates the belief of it : or , in other words , that this fenfation is a natural fign of hardness . ' This ...
... original principle of our conftitution , a certain fenfation of touch both fuggefts to the mind the conception of hardness , and creates the belief of it : or , in other words , that this fenfation is a natural fign of hardness . ' This ...
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... original principle of human nature , till we find fome more general principle into which it may be refolved . ' What our Author has advanced concerning hardness , is fo eafily applicable , not only to its oppofite , foftnefs , but ...
... original principle of human nature , till we find fome more general principle into which it may be refolved . ' What our Author has advanced concerning hardness , is fo eafily applicable , not only to its oppofite , foftnefs , but ...
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... original powers and principles of the human mind ; and therefore belong pro- perly to the fubject of his enquiry . These feveral phenomena are - the parallel motion of the eyes - our feeing objects erect by inverted images - feeing ...
... original powers and principles of the human mind ; and therefore belong pro- perly to the fubject of his enquiry . These feveral phenomena are - the parallel motion of the eyes - our feeing objects erect by inverted images - feeing ...
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... original principles of the human Mind , which are of great importance , and of very ex- tenfive influence . We know by experience , that men have used fuch words to exprefs fuch things . But all experience is of the past , and can , of ...
... original principles of the human Mind , which are of great importance , and of very ex- tenfive influence . We know by experience , that men have used fuch words to exprefs fuch things . But all experience is of the past , and can , of ...
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... original principle as we have mentioned ; I anfwer , firft , That moral or political confiderations can have no influence , until we arrive at years of understanding and reflection ; and it is certain from experience , that children ...
... original principle as we have mentioned ; I anfwer , firft , That moral or political confiderations can have no influence , until we arrive at years of understanding and reflection ; and it is certain from experience , that children ...
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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.