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1 I, 1 | exact minds, provided all things are explained to them by
2 I, 1 | reach to first principles of things speculative and conceptual,
3 I, 2 | understanding in a certain order of things, and not in others, where
4 I, 16 | Eloquence is an art of saying things in such a way (1) that those
5 I, 18 | restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand;
6 I, 32 | perfect relation between things made after a bad model.
7 I, 33 | consists in saying little things in big words, will see a
8 I, 39 | who can only reason about things of that kind, would lack
9 I, 40 | which we take to prove other things, we should have to take
10 I, 40 | have to take those other things to be examples; for, as
11 II, 62 | design. For to say silly things by chance and weakness is
12 II, 72 | comparison with the reality of things. It is an infinite sphere,
13 II, 72 | examine the most delicate things he knows. Let a mite be
14 II, 72 | drops. Dividing these last things again, let him exhaust his
15 II, 72 | the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are
16 II, 72 | appearance of the middle of things, in an eternal despair of
17 II, 72 | beginning or their end. All things proceed from the Nothing,
18 II, 72 | understand the beginnings of things, and thence to arrive at
19 II, 72 | that of her Author on all things, they almost all partake
20 II, 72 | have pretended to know all things. "I will speak of the whole,"
21 II, 72 | of reaching the centre of things than of embracing their
22 II, 72 | but as we exceed little things, we think ourselves more
23 II, 72 | chain which binds together things most distant and most different,
24 II, 72 | detail.~The eternity of things in itself or in God must
25 II, 72 | incapability of knowing things is the fact that they are
26 II, 72 | us from the knowledge of things, there being nothing so
27 II, 72 | we cannot know perfectly things which are simple, whether
28 II, 72 | philosophers have confused ideas of things, and speak of material things
29 II, 72 | things, and speak of material things in spiritual terms, and
30 II, 72 | terms, and of spiritual things in material terms. For they
31 II, 72 | receiving the ideas of these things in their purity, we colour
32 II, 72 | composite being all the simple things which we contemplate.~Who
33 II, 72 | think, seeing us compose all things of mind and body, but that
34 II, 73(8) | able to know the causes of things." ~
35 II, 82 | cannot set a true value on things.~This arrogant power, the
36 II, 85 | 85. Things which have most hold on
37 II, 99 | creates belief, but because things are true or false according
38 II, 112 | 112. Inconstancy.—Things have different qualities,
39 II, 113 | world, are very opposite things. They are united in the
40 II, 121 | Nature always begins the same things again, the years, the days,
41 II, 124 | 124. We view things not only from different
42 II, 134 | admiration by the resemblance of things, the originals of which
43 II, 135 | brutality. We never seek things for themselves, but for
44 II, 139 | if we muster all the good things which it is possible to
45 II, 139 | out in studying all these things, not in order to become
46 II, 145 | we cannot think of two things at the same time. This is
47 II, 181 | turn out ill, as a thousand things can do, and do every hour.
48 III, 185 | of God, who disposes all things kindly, is to put religion
49 III, 193(24) | of men who mistake small things and do not believe in greater?" ~
50 III, 194 | equally to establish these two things: that God has set up in
51 III, 194 | establishes only one of the things which she affirms, without
52 III, 194 | with regard to all other things. They are afraid of mere
53 III, 194 | who take a healthy view of things and who know that the only
54 III, 194 | and they will say to you things so feeble and so petty,
55 III, 197 | of despising interesting things, and to become insensible
56 III, 198 | his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion.~
57 III, 227 | I believe I am God?~"All things change and succeed each
58 III, 233 | seeing there are so many things which are not the truth
59 III, 233 | you least. You have two things to lose, the true and the
60 III, 233 | true and the good; and two things to stake, your reason and
61 III, 233 | and your nature has two things to shun, error and misery.
62 III, 234 | not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty,
63 IV, 242 | to look at the smallest things which surround them, and
64 IV, 242 | better knowledge of the things that are of God. It says,
65 IV, 252 | demonstrated alone. How few things are demonstrated! Proofs
66 IV, 252 | argument, makes us believe things and inclines all our powers
67 IV, 264 | the hunger for spiritual things, we weary of them. Hunger
68 IV, 267 | there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. It
69 IV, 267 | know this. But if natural things are beyond it, what will
70 IV, 277 | We feel it in a thousand things. I say that the heart naturally
71 V, 320 | 320. The most unreasonable things in the world become most
72 V, 327 | world is a good judge of things, for it is in natural ignorance,
73 V, 328 | the estimation he makes of things which are not essential;
74 V, 329 | is the reason why so many things are considered fine, as
75 VI, 342 | speak in regard to those things which affect it closer,
76 VI, 351 | soul sometimes assays, are things on which it does not lay
77 VI, 380 | There are no limits in things. laws would put them there,
78 VI, 384 | bad sign of truth; several things which are certain are contradicted;
79 VI, 384 | are contradicted; several things which are false pass without
80 VI, 392 | that we cannot define these things without obscuring them,
81 VI, 392 | which assures us of these things. The academicians would
82 VI, 396 | 396. Two things instruct man about his whole
83 VII, 425 | surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does
84 VII, 425 | help he does not obtain in things present? But these are all
85 VII, 425 | in any of the particular things which can only be possessed
86 VII, 430 | object of his love among the things on earth, why, if God impart
87 VII, 430 | then believe without... the things which I teach you, since
88 VII, 434 | indifferent, in suspense as to all things, even themselves being no
89 VII, 434 | a prodigy! Judge of all things, imbecile worm of the earth;
90 VII, 442 | and true religion, are things of which the knowledge is
91 VII, 458 | see all those perishable things swept away by the torrents,
92 VII, 460 | There are three orders of things: the flesh, the spirit,
93 VII, 460 | brought back to Him. In things of the flesh lust reigns
94 VII, 464 | Philosophers.—We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.~
95 VII, 499 | of God, who gives only to things done for Him, according
96 VII, 504 | acts by faith in the least things; when he reproves his servants,
97 VII, 505 | 505. All things can be deadly to us, even
98 VII, 505 | be deadly to us, even the things made to serve us; as in
99 VII, 505 | the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very
100 VII, 512 | Christ. The union of two things without change does not
101 VII, 530 | same often happens in other things.~
102 VII, 553 | much at events.~Do little things as though they were great,
103 VII, 553 | life; and do the greatest things as though they were little
104 VIII, 556 | earth, the course of all things must tend to it as to a
105 VIII, 556 | centre.~The whole course of things must have for its object
106 VIII, 556 | the centre to which all things tend that whoever knows
107 VIII, 556 | they do not see that all things concur to the establishment
108 VIII, 556 | the world and see if all things do not tend to establish
109 VIII, 556 | to see one of these two things. We can, then, have an excellent
110 VIII, 556 | atheism, or into deism, two things which the Christian religion
111 VIII, 568 | Spirit. Answer. I answer two things: first, the Church has not
112 VIII, 571 | ultimate end gives names to things. All which prevents us from
113 VIII, 575 | 575. All things work together for good to
114 VIII, 575 | divinely clear. And all things work together for evil to
115 VIII, 576 | who prophesied particular things; and to prepare a lasting
116 IX, 598 | confound and put on one level things which only resemble each
117 IX, 610 | consisted in none of those things, but only in the love of
118 IX, 610 | disregarded all the other things.~That God did not accept
119 IX, 610 | bona. 107 ~That the old things will be forgotten. Isaiah
120 IX, 612 | who should have come. All things have passed away, and this
121 IX, 612 | has endured, for which all things are.~Men have in the first
122 IX, 612 | so many changes in all things; yet this Church, which
123 IX, 615 | same time foretelling other things, which, being from time
124 IX, 619 | from the natural order of things during so long a space of
125 IX, 619 | it has provided for all things with so great wisdom, equity,
126 IX, 623 | generations, which renders things obscure. For truth is perverted
127 IX, 623 | men. And yet he puts two things, the most memorable that
128 IX, 631(114) | they all rendered the same things in the same words and the
129 X, 642 | eternal glory, made visible things. As nature is an image of
130 X, 642 | shown Himself to have over things visible.~
131 X, 649 | same level and confound things, because they seem to agree
132 X, 649 | The clearness in divine things requires us to revere the
133 X, 650 | not pass till all these things be fulfilled." Upon that
134 X, 653 | everything, except those things which, if He could do, He
135 X, 667 | did not allow them. Other things which He has left without
136 X, 667 | difference between these two things, that it is certain that
137 X, 669 | teach men that all these things had happened in allegory;
138 X, 669 | desired to reveal these things to this people who were
139 X, 669 | clearly, and expressed the things sometimes clearly, but very
140 X, 673 | 674. Typical.—"Do all things according to the pattern
141 X, 673 | shadowed forth heavenly things.~
142 X, 674 | us at last that all these things were only types and what
143 X, 677 | prophets, in speaking of these things, confined their view and
144 X, 678 | revelations are these. (1) All things happened to them in types:
145 X, 679 | nonsense. Now these are things too clear and too lofty
146 X, 679 | Testament, or saw therein other things.~
147 X, 681(130) | heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked:
148 X, 686 | jealous God," etc. For, the things of God being inexpressible,
149 X, 690 | conversation one says angelic things, and the other always dull
150 XI, 695(138) | Scriptures daily, whether those things were so." ~
151 XI, 710 | Predictions of particular things.—They were strangers in
152 XI, 710 | Jesus Christ. All these things were as far removed from
153 XI, 710 | Moses, who wrote all these things so long before they happened,
154 XI, 711 | prophecies about particular things are mingled with those about
155 XI, 712 | he shall understand these things?" etc.) "And the visions
156 XI, 712 | Divinity.—Is. 41: "Shew the things that are to come hereafter,
157 XI, 712 | your words. Teach us the things that have been at the beginning,
158 XI, 712 | beginning, and declare us things for to come.~"By this we
159 XI, 712 | that we may know of the things done from the beginning
160 XI, 712 | another. I have foretold the things which have come to pass,
161 XI, 712 | which have come to pass, and things that are to come do I declare.
162 XI, 712 | this, and shew us former things, and things to come? Let
163 XI, 712 | shew us former things, and things to come? Let them bring
164 XI, 712 | Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things
165 XI, 712 | things, neither consider the things of old.~"Behold, I will
166 XI, 712 | me, declare the order of things since I appointed the ancient
167 XI, 712 | ancient people, and the things that are coming. Fear ye
168 XI, 712 | I not told you all these things? Ye are my witnesses."~Prophecy
169 XI, 712 | 46: "Remember the former things of old, and know there is
170 XI, 712 | and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying,
171 XI, 712 | 42: "Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new
172 XI, 712 | are come to pass, and new things do I declare; before they
173 XI, 712 | have declared the former things from the beginning; I did
174 XI, 712 | I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden
175 XI, 712 | from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know
176 XI, 712 | new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered,
177 XI, 712 | Sabbath, and choose the things that please me, and take
178 XI, 721 | pieces and subdueth all things, so shall this empire break
179 XI, 721 | his own power, to whom all things shall succeed after his
180 XI, 721 | give thee the knowledge of things. At the beginning of thy
181 XI, 725 | Messiah, he says: "All these things shall be finished, when
182 XII, 744 | Jews great lovers of the things foretold, and great enemies
183 XII, 755 | man who foretells plainly things which come to pass, and
184 XII, 755 | obscurities among the clear things which come to pass?~
185 XII, 780 | Christ, who does both these things. No, for Jesus Christ, in
186 XII, 792 | were not infinitely higher things in wisdom.~All bodies, the
187 XII, 794 | sanctify, all Scripture and all things would tend to that end;
188 XII, 796 | Jesus Christ said great things so simply that it seems
189 XIII, 817 | there have been very great things true, and as they have been
190 XIII, 825(184)| John 12:41. "These things said Esaias, when he saw
191 XIII, 826 | have shewed us all these things."~Hezekiah, Sennacherib.~
192 XIV, 861 | life and a new death; all things double, and the same names
193 XIV, 861 | unable to reconcile these things, which they believe incompatible,
194 XIV, 865 | Two kinds of people make things equal to one another, as
195 XIV, 865 | Christians to priests, all things among them, etc. And hence
196 XIV, 867 | that time has cleared up things, it does so appear. But
197 XIV, 888 | Church; since all these things are so clearly foretold,
198 XIV, 909 | world which makes you find things probable? Will you make
199 XIV, 921 | sincerely, by comparison of the things which we love. It is probable
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