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1 I | so holy, so spiritual a nature as that of Christ, ought 2 II | are all of too tender a nature for us ever to entrust them 3 VIII | quarrels of as trifling nature. The sects of the Episcopalians 4 XI | talents she received from Nature, nor of exerting her beneficence. 5 XII | not yet acquainted with Nature, but then he knew, and pointed 6 XIII | had instructed him in the nature of it. Some people, indeed, 7 XIII | converses with Christ's human nature only. However, he was not 8 XIII | have long disputed on the nature and the immortality of the 9 XIII | demonstration of it, since its nature is still the subject of 10 XIII | otherwise with respect to its nature; it is of little importance 11 XIII | can be of a more religious nature than that, which affirming 12 XIII | are of a very different nature. Philosophers will never 13 XIV | fortune, and in philosophy.~Nature had indulged Descartes with 14 XIV | ingenious metaphors and figures. Nature had almost made him a poet; 15 XIV | He was mistaken in the nature of the soul, in the proofs 16 XIV | laws of motion, and in the nature of light. He admitted innate 17 XV | is a secret principle in nature which, at the same time, 18 XV | that law throughout all nature, it is evident that as the 19 XV | great spring by which all Nature is moved. Sir Isaac Newton, 20 XVI | have changed the face of Nature with regard to us. A new 21 XVI | that he was mistaken in the nature of light; that he had not 22 XVI | therefore, do colours arise in Nature? It is nothing but the disposition 23 XVI | but arises wholly from the nature of light.~For this reason 24 XVII | on the ordinary course of Nature, and on the observations 25 XVII | have made.~By the course of Nature we here understand the time 26 XVII | according to the usual course of Nature, three generations last 27 XVII | This is the usual course of Nature. The ancients, therefore, 28 XVIII| tree planted by the hand of Nature, that throws out a thousand 29 XVIII| you attempt to force its nature, and to lop and dress it 30 XIX | well acquainted with human nature, and frequented what we 31 XX | nous nommons folie.~"La Nature en vain bienfaisante Veut 32 XXI | chimeres, Lui seul de la nature est la baze et l'appui, 33 XXI | holds the mighty frame of Nature up. The skies and stars 34 XXI | pines about him spread. Nature herself took notice on his 35 XXI | aside the happy talent which Nature had indulged him. The Earls 36 XXIV | confined to the study of Nature, and, indeed, this is a 37 XXIV | embrace the knowledge of nature and the improvements of 38 XXIV | not acquaint him with the nature of exchanges. This is very