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... opinion , that errour , and not truth of any kind , is dangerous ; that ill conclusions can only flow from false propositions ; and that , to know whether any proposi- tion be true or false , it is a preposterous method to examine it by ...
... opinion , that errour , and not truth of any kind , is dangerous ; that ill conclusions can only flow from false propositions ; and that , to know whether any proposi- tion be true or false , it is a preposterous method to examine it by ...
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... opinion ; but with all that freedom and candour which we owe to truth wherever we find it , or how- ever it may contradict our own notions , or oppose our own in- terests . There is a most absurd and audacious method of rea- soning ...
... opinion ; but with all that freedom and candour which we owe to truth wherever we find it , or how- ever it may contradict our own notions , or oppose our own in- terests . There is a most absurd and audacious method of rea- soning ...
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... opinion of institutions where such proceedings are necessary . It is a misfortune , that in no part of the globe natural lib- erty and natural religion are to be found pure , and free from the mixture of political adulterations . Yet we ...
... opinion of institutions where such proceedings are necessary . It is a misfortune , that in no part of the globe natural lib- erty and natural religion are to be found pure , and free from the mixture of political adulterations . Yet we ...
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... opinion , ought to be proposed , either to the several principles as they are distinctly consid- ered , or to the justness of the conclusion which is drawn from them . But it is common to pass over both the premi- es and conclusion in ...
... opinion , ought to be proposed , either to the several principles as they are distinctly consid- ered , or to the justness of the conclusion which is drawn from them . But it is common to pass over both the premi- es and conclusion in ...
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... opinion concerning Darkness con- sidered - 180 XV . Darkness terrible in its own nature 182 XVI . Why Darkness is terrible 183 XVII . The effects of Blackness 184 XVIII . The effects of Blackness moderated 186 XIX . The physical cause ...
... opinion concerning Darkness con- sidered - 180 XV . Darkness terrible in its own nature 182 XVI . Why Darkness is terrible 183 XVII . The effects of Blackness 184 XVIII . The effects of Blackness moderated 186 XIX . The physical cause ...
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Página 109 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up: It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: An image was before mine eyes, There was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Página 206 - O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire.
Página 108 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Página 316 - It is reconciled in policy ; and politics ought to be adjusted, not to human reasonings, but to human nature ; of which the reason is but a part, and by no means the greatest part.
Página 103 - Of the Passion Caused by the Sublime The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature when those causes operate most powerfully, is astonishment; and astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended with some degree of horror. In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any other, nor by consequence reason on that object which employs it.
Página 482 - Be content to bind America by laws of trade; you have always done it. Let this be your reason for binding their trade. Do not burden them by taxes ; you were not used to do so from the beginning. Let this be your reason for not taxing. These are the arguments of states and kingdoms. Leave the rest to the schools; for there only they may be discussed with safety.
Página 105 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Página 67 - ... a sort of creative power of its own ; either in representing at pleasure the images of things in the order and manner in which they were received by the senses, or in combining those images in a new manner, and according to a different order.
Página 105 - When we know the full extent of any danger, when we can accustom our eyes to it, a great deal of the apprehension vanishes. Every one will be sensible of this who considers how greatly night adds to our dread in all cases of danger, and how much the notions of ghosts and goblins, of which none can form clear ideas, affect minds which give credit to the popular tales concerning such sorts of beings.
Página 420 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.