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  1   I,    0, 1     |     philosophy, or the science of human nature, may be treated after
  2   I,    0, 2     |          his manners. They regard human nature as a subject of speculation;
  3   I,    0, 2     |      which, in every science, all human curiosity must be bounded.
  4   I,    0, 4     |   applicable to every exigence of human life. By means of such compositions,
  5   I,    0, 4     |          narrow are the bounds of human understanding, that little
  6   I,    0, 4     |        the various necessities of human life, must submit to business
  7   I,    0, 4     |           as most suitable to the human race, and secretly admonished
  8   I,    0, 4     |           but let your science be human, and such as may have a
  9   I,    0, 5     |           nothing but pictures of human life in various attitudes
 10   I,    0, 5     |           inward structure of the human body, the position of the
 11   I,    0, 6     |         which are bestowed on the human race. The sweetest and most
 12   I,    0, 6     |          the fruitless efforts of human vanity, which would penetrate
 13   I,    0, 7     |   discover the proper province of human reason. For, besides, that
 14   I,    0, 7     |      seriously into the nature of human understanding, and show,
 15   I,    0, 8     |           powers and faculties of human nature. It is remarkable
 16   I,    0, 8     |         not beyond the compass of human understanding. There are
 17   I,    0, 8     |        the comprehension of every human creature; and the finer
 18   I,    0, 9     |          principles, by which the human mind is actuated in its
 19   I,    0, 9     |         lie within the compass of human understanding, it may at
 20   I,    0, 10    |       these reasonings concerning human nature seem abstract, and
 21  II,    0, 13    |        which not only escapes all human power and authority, but
 22  IV,    I, 20    |            20. All the objects of human reason or enquiry may naturally
 23  IV,    I, 21    |         are the second objects of human reason, are not ascertained
 24  IV,    I, 22    |      these are the effects of the human make and fabric, and closely
 25  IV,    I, 26    |         that the utmost effort of human reason is to reduce the
 26  IV,    I, 26    |          are totally shut up from human curiosity and enquiry. Elasticity,
 27  IV,    I, 26    |           Thus the observation of human blindness and weakness is
 28  IV,   II, 29    |      nourishment and support of a human body. Sight or feeling conveys
 29  IV,   II, 30    |   enumerating all the branches of human knowledge, endeavour to
 30  IV,   II, 31    |        reject that great guide of human life, it may surely be allowed
 31  IV,   II, 31    |          examine the principle of human nature, which gives this
 32  IV,   II, 33    |         must, therefore, pass all human comprehension. Even though
 33   V,    I, 34    |           attention the vanity of human life, and turn all our thoughts
 34   V,    I, 34    |         disorderly passion of the human mind, nor can mingle itself
 35   V,    I, 34    |          its influence as long as human nature remains the same.
 36   V,    I, 36    |          point out a principle of human nature, which is universally
 37   V,    I, 36(*) |         frailty and corruption of human nature, teaches, that no
 38   V,    I, 36    |         the general corruption of human nature, and shows us the
 39   V,    I, 36    |        and just maxims concerning human affairs and the conduct
 40   V,    I, 36    |       then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle
 41   V,   II, 44    |    circumstance and occurrence of human life. Had not the presence
 42   V,   II, 45    |         to the subsistence of all human creatures, it is not probable,
 43   V,   II, 45    |           every age and period of human life, extremely liable to
 44  VI,    0, 47    |        and water suffocated every human creature: The production
 45 VII,    I, 48    |       trace the principles of the human mind through a few steps,
 46 VII,    I, 53    | acquainted with the nature of the human soul and the nature of an
 47 VII,    I, 57    |       apprized of the weakness of human reason, and the narrow limits
 48  II,    0, 59    |     weakness and narrow limits of human reason and capacity.~
 49 VIII,    I, 62   |      entirely beyond the reach of human capacity, such as those
 50 VIII,    I, 65   |        nations and ages, and that human nature remains still the
 51 VIII,    I, 65   |           universal principles of human nature, by showing men in
 52 VIII,    I, 65   |       with the regular springs of human action and behaviour. These
 53 VIII,    I, 65   |     course of nature, and that no human motives, in such circumstances,
 54 VIII,    I, 65   |       acknowledge a uniformity in human motives and actions as well
 55 VIII,    I, 65   |           us in the principles of human nature, and regulate our
 56 VIII,    I, 65   |   experience, give us the clue of human nature, and teach us to
 57 VIII,    I, 65   |       were there no uniformity in human actions, and were every
 58 VIII,    I, 66   |           that this uniformity of human actions should be carried
 59 VIII,    I, 66   |        education, which mould the human mind from its infancy and
 60 VIII,    I, 66   |          in the different ages of human creatures. Even the characters,
 61 VIII,    I, 67   |        Thus, for instance, in the human body, when the usual symptoms
 62 VIII,    I, 67   |       conducted. They know that a human body is a mighty complicated
 63 VIII,    I, 68   |         the constant character of human nature; though it be applicable,
 64 VIII,    I, 68   |        not easily discoverable by human sagacity and enquiry.~
 65 VIII,    I, 69   |         experienced uniformity in human actions is a source whence
 66 VIII,    I, 69   |         societies that scarce any human action is entirely complete
 67 VIII,    I, 69   |        others enters so much into human life that no man, while
 68 VIII,    I, 70   |           the known principles of human nature. A man who at noon
 69 VIII,    I, 70   |          after. Above one half of human reasonings contain inferences
 70 VIII,    I, 71   |        this conclusion concerning human ignorance be the result
 71 VIII,    I, 72   |         fix such narrow limits to human understanding: But we can
 72 VIII,    I, 72(*)|          though, in reflecting on human actions, we seldom feel
 73 VIII,    I, 72(*)|           even intuitive proof of human liberty. We feel, that our
 74 VIII,   II, 75   |        draw inferences concerning human actions, and that those
 75 VIII,   II, 75   |     necessity to this property of human actions: But as long as
 76 VIII,   II, 77   |          to morality, and that no human actions, where it is wanting,
 77 VIII,   II, 78   |          single volition of every human creature. No contingency
 78 VIII,   II, 78   |           necessity, must result. Human actions, therefore, either
 79 VIII,   II, 78   |           the consequences of any human action; and these reasons
 80 VIII,   II, 78   |       separately; First, that, if human actions can be traced up,
 81 VIII,   II, 79   |      suitable to the infirmity of human minds, regard alone the
 82 VIII,   II, 80   |         the peace and security of human society; as the characters
 83 VIII,   II, 80   |         natural sentiments of the human mind: And these sentiments
 84 VIII,   II, 81   |   indifference and contingency of human actions with prescience;
 85  IX,    0, 84    |           the great difference in human understandings: After which
 86  IX,    0, 93    |          acquired a confidence in human testimony, books and conversation
 87  IX,    0, 94    |          all the disquisitions of human understanding. But our wonder
 88   X,    I, 97    |     useful, and even necessary to human life, than that which is
 89   X,    I, 97    |    observation of the veracity of human testimony, and of the usual
 90   X,    I, 97    |           this maxim in favour of human testimony, whose connexion
 91   X,    I, 97    |         be qualities, inherent in human nature, we should never
 92   X,    I, 97    |           the least confidence in human testimony. A man delirious,
 93   X,    I, 97    |        derived from witnesses and human testimony, is founded on
 94   X,    I, 98    |        any argument, derived from human testimony.~ Suppose, for
 95   X,   II, 102   |       Secondly. We may observe in human nature a principle which,
 96   X,   II, 102   |   assurance, which we might, from human testimony, have, in any
 97   X,   II, 102   |          end of common sense; and human testimony, in these circumstances,
 98   X,   II, 103   |        thoroughly extirpated from human nature.~ It is strange,
 99   X,   II, 105   |         miracle, supported by any human testimony, was more properly
100   X,   II, 106   |    consequence just, because some human testimony has the utmost
101   X,   II, 107   |          which gives authority to human testimony; and it is the
102   X,   II, 107   |  establish it as a maxim, that no human testimony can have such
103   X,   II, 108   |         as to admit of proof from human testimony; though, perhaps,
104   X,   II, 108   |         comes within the reach of human testimony, if that testimony
105   X,   II, 109   |           it by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion
106   X,   II, 109   |          the production of a mere human writer and historian. Here
107   X,   II, 109   |         state of the world and of human nature entirely different
108   X,   II, 110   |        not exceed the capacity of human nature to foretell future
109  XI,    0, 117   |    friendship is the chief joy of human life, and moderation the
110  XI,    0, 119   |      entirely beyond the reach of human experience. It is useless;
111  XI,    0, 120   |        sea-shore the print of one human foot, you would conclude,
112  XI,    0, 121   |          conclusions. In works of human art and contrivance, it
113  XI,    0, 121   |      produced: but the print of a human foot proves likewise, from
114  XI,    0, 122   |          and so much superior. In human nature, there is a certain
115 XII,    I, 125   |    possible to be attained by any human creature (as it plainly
116 XII,    I, 128   |          exceeds the power of all human capacity.~ By what argument
117 XII,    I, 130   |        doubt into all subjects of human knowledge and enquiry. Do
118 XII,    I, 131   |       equally beyond the reach of human conception. Let any man
119 XII,   II, 133   |        most natural principles of human reason. * But what renders
120 XII,   II, 135   |           the natural weakness of human understanding; the contradictory
121 XII,   II, 137   |    acknowledge anything, that all human life must perish, were his
122 XII,  III, 138   |        the strange infirmities of human understanding, even in its
123 XII,  III, 138   |   confusion, which is inherent in human nature. In general, there
124 XII,  III, 139   |         to the narrow capacity of human understanding. The imagination
125 XII,  III, 139   |         the natural powers of the human mind and to compare them
126 XII,  III, 141   |         forms the greater part of human knowledge, and is the source
127 XII,  III, 141   |          and is the source of all human action and behaviour.~Moral