An Essay Shewing the Intimate Connexion Between Our Notions of Moral Good and Evil, and Our Conceptions of the Freedom of the Divine and Human WillsA. Black, 1831 - 216 pàgines |
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Pàgina v
... abstract ques- tions , and refined speculations , are held but in comparatively little repute . There has not been perhaps , in any period in the literary history of this country , a greater degree of lukewarmness and indifference ...
... abstract ques- tions , and refined speculations , are held but in comparatively little repute . There has not been perhaps , in any period in the literary history of this country , a greater degree of lukewarmness and indifference ...
Pàgina viii
... abstract logical refutation of philosophical necessity , yet they have , I think , an evident indirect influence to this end , by bringing our common notions of the freedom of the will , on a variety of subjects , more completely under ...
... abstract logical refutation of philosophical necessity , yet they have , I think , an evident indirect influence to this end , by bringing our common notions of the freedom of the will , on a variety of subjects , more completely under ...
Pàgina 2
... abstract prin- ciples of our nature objects of their study and reflection . The materials are seemingly so nume- rous and inexhaustible , there are so many princi- ples of action and varieties of feelings , desires , and passions , so ...
... abstract prin- ciples of our nature objects of their study and reflection . The materials are seemingly so nume- rous and inexhaustible , there are so many princi- ples of action and varieties of feelings , desires , and passions , so ...
Pàgina 4
... invariably mixed up these principles with such abstract and recondite speculations respecting the nature of mind and matter , and the general powers and constitutions of our intellectual frames , as to .4 PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS .
... invariably mixed up these principles with such abstract and recondite speculations respecting the nature of mind and matter , and the general powers and constitutions of our intellectual frames , as to .4 PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS .
Pàgina 11
... abstract and subtle thinking . Though liberty and necessity are placed at the head of this chapter , it is not my intention to go into the general question on these subjects . They have been so amply discussed by persons of the highest ...
... abstract and subtle thinking . Though liberty and necessity are placed at the head of this chapter , it is not my intention to go into the general question on these subjects . They have been so amply discussed by persons of the highest ...
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Pàgina 115 - ... he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
Pàgina 98 - Not what they would ? what praise could they receive ? What pleasure I from such obedience paid ? When will and reason, reason also is choice, Useless and vain, of freedom both despoil'd, Made passive both, had served necessity, Not me?
Pàgina 158 - Swift fly the years, and rise the expected morn ! Oh spring to light, auspicious Babe, be born ! See Nature hastes her earliest wreaths to bring, With all the incense of the breathing spring : See lofty Lebanon his head advance, See nodding forests on the mountains dance: See spicy clouds from lowly Saron rise, And Carmel's flowery top perfumes the skies ! Hark ! a glad voice the lonely desert cheers ; Prepare the way! a God, a God appears: A God, a God ! the vocal hills reply, The rocks proclaim...
Pàgina 169 - But, besides all that endless variety of ideas or objects of knowledge, there is likewise Something which knows or perceives them; and exercises divers operations, as willing, imagining, remembering, about them. This perceiving, active being is what I call mind, spirit, soul, or myself. By which words I do not denote any one of my ideas, but a thing entirely distinct from them, wherein they exist, or, which is the same thing, whereby they are perceived; for the existence of an idea consists in being...
Pàgina 77 - O Woman ! best are all things as the will Of God ordain'd them; his creating hand Nothing imperfect or deficient left Of all that he created: much less man, Or aught that might his happy state secure, Secure from outward force; within himself The danger lies, yet lies within his power: Against his will, he can receive no harm...
Pàgina 78 - But God left free the will ; for what obeys Reason is free, and reason he made right, But bid her well beware, and still erect, Lest, by some fair appearing good surprised, She dictate false, and misinform the will To do what God expressly hath forbid.
Pàgina 116 - Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor hath taught him ? With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding...
Pàgina 104 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night. And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle...
Pàgina 68 - Subject, compound them, follow her and God. Love, Hope, and Joy, fair Pleasure's smiling train; Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of Pain...