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1 I, 20 | rather than into "Follow Nature," or, "Conduct your private
2 I, 20 | their natural confusion. Nature has established them all
3 I, 21 | 21. Nature has made all her truths
4 I, 29 | locutus es. 2 Those honour Nature well who teach that she
5 I, 32 | certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or
6 I, 32 | sonnet than to consider nature and the standard and, then,
7 I, 49 | 49. To mask nature and disguise her. No more
8 II, 60 | God.~Or, First part: That nature is corrupt. Proved by nature
9 II, 60 | nature is corrupt. Proved by nature itself.~Second part: That
10 II, 70 | 70. Nature... —Nature has set us so
11 II, 70 | 70. Nature... —Nature has set us so well in the
12 II, 72 | on deeper researches into nature, he would consider her both
13 II, 72 | contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty,
14 II, 72 | power of conception than nature that of supplying material
15 II, 72 | atom in the ample bosom of nature. No idea approaches it.
16 II, 72 | in this remote corner of nature; and from the little cell
17 II, 72 | is the smallest point in nature. I will let him see therein
18 II, 72 | that he can conceive of nature's immensity in the womb
19 II, 72 | in the body given him by nature between those two abysses
20 II, 72 | in fact, what is man in nature? A Nothing in comparison
21 II, 72 | into the examination of nature, as though they bore some
22 II, 72 | a capacity infinite like nature.~If we are well informed,
23 II, 72 | we understand that, as nature has graven her image and
24 II, 72 | anything, although by its nature it is infinitely divisible.~
25 II, 72 | are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from
26 II, 72 | occupies in the expanse of nature.~Limited as we are in every
27 II, 72 | each in the state wherein nature has placed him. As this
28 II, 72 | and constant immobility of nature, in comparison with the
29 II, 72 | most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive
30 II, 73 | another in the knowledge of nature, another in truth, Felix
31 II, 73 | themselves, and see if she has a nature and a grasp capable of laying
32 II, 82 | she gives no sign of her nature, impressing the same character
33 II, 82 | established in man a second nature to show how all-powerful
34 II, 82 | the eyes of judges of like nature. Imagination cannot make
35 II, 82 | according to their true nature without considering those
36 II, 82 | preacher appear, and let nature have given him a hoarse
37 II, 89 | 89. Custom is our nature. He who is accustomed to
38 II, 91 | be a tomorrow, etc. But Nature often deceives us, and does
39 II, 92 | some customs opposed to nature, ineradicable by nature
40 II, 92 | nature, ineradicable by nature or by a second custom. This
41 II, 93 | fade away. What kind of nature is that which is subject
42 II, 93 | decay? Custom is a second nature which destroys the former.
43 II, 93 | the former. But what is nature? For is custom not natural?
44 II, 93 | natural? I am much afraid that nature is itself only a first custom,
45 II, 93 | custom, as custom is a second nature.~
46 II, 94 | 94. The nature of man is wholly natural,
47 II, 97 | that, out of those whom nature has only made men, are created
48 II, 97 | soldiers, etc. Certainly nature is not so uniform. It is
49 II, 97 | this, for it constrains nature. But sometimes nature gains
50 II, 97 | constrains nature. But sometimes nature gains the ascendancy and
51 II, 100 | 100. Self-love. The nature of self-love and of this
52 II, 109 | necessities of illness. Nature gives us, then, passions
53 II, 109 | fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves, for they
54 II, 109 | in which we are not.~As nature makes us always unhappy
55 II, 119 | 119. Nature imitates herself A seed
56 II, 119 | which is of a different nature.~All is made and led by
57 II, 120 | 120. Nature diversifies and imitates;
58 II, 121 | 121. Nature always begins the same things
59 II, 129 | 129. Our nature consists in motion; complete
60 II, 139 | bought, scarce know our nature. The hare in itself would
61 II, 139 | This is to misunderstand nature.~As men who naturally understand
62 II, 139 | not understand man's true nature.~And thus, when we take
63 II, 139 | insensible of the insatiable nature of the if desire. They think
64 II, 139 | greatness of our original nature, which teaches them that
65 III, 194 | facts: the corruption of nature, and redemption by Jesus
66 III, 194 | to show the corruption of nature by sentiments so unnatural.~
67 III, 194 | strange confusion in the nature of man, that he should boast
68 III, 195 | eternal, whatever may be its nature; and that thus all our actions
69 III, 200 | piquet. So it is against nature that man, etc. It is making
70 III, 208 | thousand? What reason has nature had for giving me such,
71 III, 229 | only darkness everywhere. Nature presents to me nothing which
72 III, 229 | that if a God maintains Nature, she should testify to Him
73 III, 231 | place.~Let this effect of nature, which previously seemed
74 III, 233 | reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe
75 III, 233 | and are ignorant of its nature. As we know it to be false
76 III, 233 | can make no change in its nature. Yet it is a number, and
77 III, 233 | know then the existence and nature of the finite, because we
78 III, 233 | and are ignorant of its nature, because it has extension
79 III, 233 | neither the existence nor the nature of God, because He has neither
80 III, 233 | glory we shall know His nature. Now, I have already shown
81 III, 233 | thing, without knowing its nature.~Let us now speak according
82 III, 233 | your happiness; and your nature has two things to shun,
83 IV, 242 | Divinity from the works of nature. I should not be astonished
84 IV, 242 | light whatever they see in nature that can bring them to this
85 IV, 242 | since the corruption of nature, He has left men in a darkness
86 IV, 242 | God must not be of this nature. So it tells us elsewhere:
87 IV, 243 | writer has ever made use of nature to prove God. They all strive
88 IV, 282 | knowledge of the tri-dimensional nature of space and of the infinity
89 IV, 282 | instinct and intuition! But nature has refused us this boon.
90 IV, 289 | gently, whilst so contrary to nature. 2. The sanctity, the dignity,
91 V, 294 | which does not change its nature with change in climate.
92 VI, 347 | the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.
93 VI, 354 | 354. Man's nature is not always to advance;
94 VI, 355 | agreeable, that we may get warm.~Nature acts by progress, itus et
95 VI, 363(54)| Virgil, The Georgics, ii. "Nature gave them first these limits." ~
96 VI, 365 | Thought is, therefore, by its nature a wonderful and incomparable
97 VI, 365 | How great it is in its nature! How vile it is in its defects!~
98 VI, 375 | have recognised that our nature was but in continual change,
99 VI, 383 | lives that they stray from nature's path, while they themselves
100 VI, 385 | kill? No; for that destroys nature. We possess truth and goodness
101 VI, 393 | all the laws of God and nature, have made laws for themselves
102 VI, 396 | instruct man about his whole nature; instinct and experience.~
103 VI, 404 | their own feelings; their nature, which is stronger than
104 VI, 407 | must needs return to follow nature, it becomes proud by reason
105 VI, 409 | For what in animals is nature, we call in man wretchedness,
106 VI, 409 | which we recognise that, his nature being now like that of animals,
107 VI, 409 | has fallen from a better nature which once was his.~For
108 VI, 415 | 415. The nature of man may be viewed in
109 VI, 415 | just as we judge of the nature of the horse and the dog,
110 VI, 417 | 417. This twofold nature of man is so evident that
111 VI, 418 | ignorant of both sides of his nature; but he must know both.~
112 VI, 423 | himself, for there is in him a nature capable of good; but let
113 VII, 425 | that there is nothing in nature which has not been serviceable
114 VII, 425 | and to the whole course of nature.~Some seek good in authority,
115 VII, 426 | 426. True nature being lost, everything becomes
116 VII, 426 | everything becomes its own nature; as the true good being
117 VII, 428 | weakness to prove God by nature, do not despise Scripture;
118 VII, 430 | have become their second nature. "From this principle which
119 VII, 430 | them must not be in another nature.~For Port-Royal to-morrow (
120 VII, 430 | you think that you are by nature like Him and conformed to
121 VII, 430 | you understand that your nature was like that of the brutes,
122 VII, 430 | it is by grace, not by nature. If you are humbled, it
123 VII, 430 | is by penitence, not by nature.~Thus this double capacity...~
124 VII, 430 | Him, and why, since his nature is capable of love and knowledge,
125 VII, 430 | and such a convulsion of nature that the dead will rise
126 VII, 433 | having understood the whole nature of man.—That a religion
127 VII, 433 | must have knowledge of our nature. It ought to know its greatness
128 VII, 434 | which includes that of our nature. The dogmatists have been
129 VII, 434 | a real complete sceptic. Nature sustains our feeble reason
130 VII, 434 | will unravel this tangle? Nature confutes the sceptics, and
131 VII, 434 | reason; be silent, foolish nature; learn that man infinitely
132 VII, 434 | grace, is raised above all nature, made like unto God and
133 VII, 435 | virtue. Some considering nature as incorrupt, others as
134 VII, 435 | recognized the infirmity of nature, they were ignorant of its
135 VII, 439 | 439. Nature corrupted.—Man does not
136 VII, 441 | the principle that human nature is corrupt and fallen from
137 VII, 441 | mark of this truth: for nature is such that she testifies
138 VII, 441 | a lost God and a corrupt nature.~
139 VII, 442 | 442. Man's true nature, his true good, true virtue,
140 VII, 446 | God will deliver the good nature of man from the evil.~This
141 VII, 448 | 448. Milton sees well that nature is corrupt and that men
142 VII, 457 | everybody. We must not judge of nature by ourselves, but by it.~
143 VII, 469 | plainly that there exists in nature a necessary Being, eternal
144 VII, 470 | would do a thing of the nature of which they are ignorant?
145 VII, 483 | wanderings.~It cannot by its nature love any other thing, except
146 VII, 505 | made to serve us; as in nature walls can kill us, and stairs
147 VII, 505 | least movement affects all nature; the entire sea changes
148 VII, 520 | The law has not destroyed nature, but has instructed it;
149 VII, 521 | always be in the world, and nature also; so that the former
150 VII, 525 | feelings of humility, not from nature, but from penitence, not
151 VII, 532 | warning for all conditions.~Nature seems to have done the same
152 VII, 548 | darkness and confusion in the nature of God and in our own nature.~
153 VII, 548 | nature of God and in our own nature.~
154 VIII, 556 | have seen by the light of nature that if there be a true
155 VIII, 556 | explanation both of the whole nature of man in particular and
156 VIII, 556 | is a corruption in their nature which renders them unworthy
157 VIII, 556 | soul, or anything of that nature; not only because I should
158 VIII, 556 | sufficiently able to find in nature arguments to convince hardened
159 VIII, 556 | Christ, and who rest in nature, either find no light to
160 VIII, 556 | Shall he alone who knows his nature know it only to be miserable?
161 VIII, 557 | capable by their original nature.~
162 VIII, 560 | glorious state of Adam, nor the nature of his sin, nor the transmission
163 VIII, 560 | place under conditions of a nature altogether different from
164 VIII, 564 | religion, are not of such a nature that they can be said to
165 VIII, 580 | 580. Nature has some perfections to
166 IX, 604 | to common sense and human nature is that alone which has
167 IX, 605 | only religion contrary to nature, to common sense, and to
168 IX, 629 | the world, and no root in nature.~
169 X, 642 | made visible things. As nature is an image of grace, He
170 X, 642 | done in the bounties of nature what He would do in those
171 X, 659 | and has made our second nature. Thus there are two natures
172 X, 674 | invisible and a Messiah.~For nature is an image of Grace, and
173 XI, 692 | persons around me of a like nature. I ask them if they are
174 XII, 764 | advents, two states of man's nature.~
175 XIV, 858 | harass the Church are of this nature.~
176 XIV, 875 | conduct of God is hidden under nature, as in all His other works.~
177 XIV, 906 | all that is corrupt in the nature of man may contribute to
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