Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and DevelopmentJ. P. Mendum, 1851 - 396 páginas |
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... substance and connection enough to make it of value in its actual shape . Such as it is , we send it forth in the hope that we shall be cor- rected where we are wrong , enlightened where we are dim or blind , and sympathized with by ...
... substance and connection enough to make it of value in its actual shape . Such as it is , we send it forth in the hope that we shall be cor- rected where we are wrong , enlightened where we are dim or blind , and sympathized with by ...
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... substances : but men have sought to make out a philosophy of mind , by studying these effects apart from causes , and have even asserted that mind was entirely independent of body , and hav- ing some unintelligible nature of its own ...
... substances : but men have sought to make out a philosophy of mind , by studying these effects apart from causes , and have even asserted that mind was entirely independent of body , and hav- ing some unintelligible nature of its own ...
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... substance and form of their being ; just as it is with other animals , and with plants and stones . For every effect , there is a sufficient cause ; and all causes are material causes , influenced by surround- ing circumstances ; which ...
... substance and form of their being ; just as it is with other animals , and with plants and stones . For every effect , there is a sufficient cause ; and all causes are material causes , influenced by surround- ing circumstances ; which ...
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... substance will destroy the effect of another , or unite and cause a third result . - In some cases , the mere pressure of inanimate substances will excite the action of the part ; or the mere pressure of where the head is resting . The ...
... substance will destroy the effect of another , or unite and cause a third result . - In some cases , the mere pressure of inanimate substances will excite the action of the part ; or the mere pressure of where the head is resting . The ...
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... who have detected the properties of herbs and of other substances , and can observe the structure , condition , action and uses of parts of the animal frame . Whatever doubt any one may have as to the truth of METHODS OF NEW DISCOVERY . 51.
... who have detected the properties of herbs and of other substances , and can observe the structure , condition , action and uses of parts of the animal frame . Whatever doubt any one may have as to the truth of METHODS OF NEW DISCOVERY . 51.
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Página 219 - And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him. And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue; and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
Página 359 - ... grounding their purposes not on the prudent and heavenly contemplation of justice and equity, which was never taught them, but on the promising and pleasing thoughts of litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees...
Página 178 - God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him. For the one is unbelief, the other is contumely; and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose: Surely...
Página 381 - While dancing they neither saw nor heard, being insensible to external impressions through the senses, but were haunted by visions...
Página 334 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Página 311 - And therefore if a man should talk to me of a round quadrangle; or accidents of bread in cheese; or immaterial substances; or of a free subject; a free will; or any free but free from being hindered by opposition; I should not say he were in an error, but that his words were without meaning; that is to say, absurd.
Página viii - In my opinion, profound minds are the most likely to think lightly of the resources of human reason; and it is the pert superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief. The deep philosopher sees chains of causes and effects so wonderfully and strangely linked together, that he is usually the last person to decide upon the impossibility of any two series of events being independent of each other...
Página 183 - I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Página iii - But the commandment of knowledge is yet higher than the commandment over the will ; for it is a commandment over the reason, belief, and understanding of man, which is the highest part of the mind, and giveth law to the will itself : for there is no power on earth, which setteth up a throne, or chair of state, in the spirits and souls of men, and in their cogitations, imaginations, opinions, and beliefs, but knowledge and learning.
Página 304 - Swedenborg went out, and after a short interval returned to the company quite pale and alarmed. He said that a dangerous fire had just broken out in Stockholm, at the Sudermalm, (Gottenburg is about three hundred miles from Stockholm,) and that it was spreading very fast.