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The Works of the Late Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord ..., Volume 7 Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) Affichage du livre entier - 1809 |
The Works of the Late Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord ..., Volume 7 Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) Affichage du livre entier - 1809 |
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Page 120 - Heathens, and not before the saints, that is, " your fellow Christians ? Do you not know, that *' the saints shall judge the world ? Know ye not, " that we shall judge angels?" After which, the apostle directs such as have any controversy together, to take the meanest, or most contemptible Christian for their judge, rather than to
Page 420 - he vainly imagined in his zeal for Pyrrhonism. The laws of nature are truly what my lord Bacon styles his aphorisms, the laws of laws. Civil laws are always imperfect, and often false deductions from them, or applications of them: nay, they stand, in many instances, in direct opposition to them.
Page 306 - all mankind, that they have no ideas of the real essences of substances, and a declaration, that their simple ideas, and those of modes and relations, are real essences. Now, the truth of the supposed confession I admit entirely; but the truth of the supposed declaration is not so evident, and requires some explanation as
Page 415 - and eternal essences of things are independent on God ; and yet God was obliged to make, and is obliged to govern his system according to them. By employing our reason to collect the will of God from the fund of our nature, physical and moral, and by Contemplating seriously and
Page 389 - sometimes united sooner, and more intimately than they could be by mere esteem, by expectation of good offices, or even by gratitude. I know not, to say it by the way, whether there is not a sort of corporeal sympathy too, without the supposition of which it is impossible to account for the strong
Page 286 - Scriptures, just as well as he receives the books of the Old Testament, concerning which he has started so many idle paradoxes, for such, on the credit of the Jews, though he rejects their oral law, and the fabulous traditions of their rabbins. Thus I shall' conclude this long Essay, wherein I have recalled the sum of what
Page 365 - the Supreme Being!) desires to be imitated by him in those perfections, which are the foundation of his own unchangeable happiness. "When they distinguish thus between the physical and moral attributes, it is plain, that they see how absurd they would appear, if they proposed to creatures, conscious of their
Page 404 - latter has all those which the manner in which it was revealed, and the nature of it, allowed it to have. But the manner in which the former has been revealed to mankind, as well as the matter of it, admitted of proofs of both kinds, much more evident, and much more proportioned to the human
Page 391 - and the happiness of every individual on the happiness of society, the practice of all the social virtues is the law of our nature, and made such by the will of God, who, having determined the end and proportioned the