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 1   I,    0, 2     |   reasonable rather than an active being, and endeavours to form
 2   I,    0, 2     |      beauty and deformity, without being able to determine the source
 3   I,    0, 3     |           the abstruse philosophy, being founded on a turn of mind,
 4   I,    0, 4     |        acceptable in the world, as being supposed to contribute nothing
 5   I,    0, 4     | entertaining.~ Man is a reasonable being; and as such, receives from
 6   I,    0, 4     |          no less than a reasonable being: But neither can he always
 7   I,    0, 4     |        them. Man is also an active being; and from that disposition,
 8   I,    0, 6     |            this to be despised; as being one accession to those few
 9   I,    0, 6     |            with some bodies, which being endowed with vigorous and
10   I,    0, 6     |      popular superstitions, which, being unable to defend themselves
11   I,    0, 7     |        metaphysical jargon, which, being mixed up with popular superstition,
12  II,    0, 14    |        intelligent, wise, and good Being, arises from reflecting
13  IV,    I, 27    |           and ice of cold, without being previously acquainted with
14  IV,   II, 29    |          propositions are far from being the same, I have found that
15   V,    I, 36    |          act or operation, without being impelled by any reasoning
16   V,    I, 36    |           only one body move after being impelled by another, could
17  VI,    0, 47    |            principle had no place. Being determined by custom to
18 VII,    I, 48    |           the ideas of the former, being sensible, are always clear
19 VII,    I, 52    |            this we are so far from being immediately conscious, that
20 VII,    I, 52    |            such particular limits. Being in that case fully acquainted
21 VII,    I, 52    |          is performed, so far from being directly and fully known
22 VII,    I, 52(*) |         take place; to the Supreme Being, who never meets with any
23 VII,    I, 53    |            beyond the reach of any being, less than infinite. At
24 VII,    I, 53    |         effect depends, and which, being entirely unknown to us,
25 VII,    I, 53    |      scenes of nature? So far from being conscious of this energy
26 VII,    I, 54    |    Conjunction of objects, without being ever able to comprehend
27 VII,    I, 55    |            volition of the Supreme Being, who wills that such particular
28 VII,    I, 55    |             moves the second ball, being determined to this operation
29 VII,    I, 55    |            organs of sense, which, being agitated by external objects,
30 VII,    I, 57    |           operation of the Supreme Being is too bold ever to carry
31 VII,    I, 57    |        have no idea of the Supreme Being but what we learn from reflection
32 VII,    I, 57    |          all energy in the Supreme Being as much as in the grossest
33  II,    0, 58    |         following another, without being able to comprehend any force
34  II,    0, 59    |           happen in like cases; it being justly esteemed an unpardonable
35 VIII,    I, 71   |      thought and intelligence. But being once convinced that we know
36 VIII,    I, 72(*)|            thinking or intelligent being, who may consider the action;
37 VIII,    I, 74   |         power which has anywhere a being in nature. But it is pretended
38 VIII,   II, 76   |                       76. All laws being founded on rewards and punishments,
39 VIII,   II, 78   |    necessary causes is fixed, that Being, either finite or infinite,
40 VIII,   II, 78   |      volitions and intentions of a Being infinitely wise and powerful.
41 VIII,   II, 78   |        cannot possibly be true, as being liable to all the same objections.
42 VIII,   II, 78   |        infinite perfection of that Being from whom they are derived,
43 VIII,   II, 81   |            actions of men, without being the author of sin and moral
44 VIII,   II, 81   |            yet free the Deity from being the author of sin, has been
45  IX,    0, 84    |       creation; and the conclusion being once firmly established
46   X,    I, 97    |           reports of witnesses. It being a general maxim, that no
47   X,    I, 99    |            they affirm, instead of being only marvellous, is really
48   X,   II, 101   |           to lose in case of their being detected in any falsehood;
49   X,   II, 102   |             arising from miracles, being an agreeable emotion, gives
50   X,   II, 102   |          of propagating it, and of being the first reporters of it,
51   X,   II, 103   |          relations started, which, being treated with scorn by all
52   X,   II, 103   |          from like beginnings; but being sown in a more proper soil,
53   X,   II, 103   |        sense of the matter; which, being supported by so great authority,
54   X,   II, 108   |        parliament; and that, after being interred a month, she again
55   X,   II, 108   |            examination. Though the Being to whom the miracle is ascribed,
56   X,   II, 108   |    attributes or actions of such a Being, otherwise than from the
57  XI,    0, 111   |           the world; when mankind, being wholly illiterate, formed
58  XI,    0, 114   |          or a rational intelligent being. If the cause be known only
59  XI,    0, 115   |         The knowledge of the cause being derived solely from the
60  XI,    0, 119   |            knowledge of this cause being derived entirely from the
61  XI,    0, 121   |        Plainly this; that man is a being, whom we know by experience,
62  XI,    0, 121   |           which we ascribe to him, being in that case derived from
63  XI,    0, 122   |       productions, and is a single being in the universe, not comprehended
64  XI,    0, 122   |      Greater good produced by this Being must still prove a greater
65  XI,    0, 122   |          nature; and consequently, being entirely unsupported by
66  XI,    0, 122   |           the place of the Supreme Being, and conclude, that he will,
67  XI,    0, 122   |     projects of men, to those of a Being so different, and so much
68  XI,    0, 122   |        have place with regard to a Being, so remote and incomprehensible,
69  XI,    0, 122   |          less analogy to any other being in the universe than the
70  XI,    0, 122   |     ascribing of it to the Supreme Being, where it appears not to
71 XII,    I, 127   |           Our presence bestows not being on it: our absence does
72 XII,    I, 127   |       images are conveyed, without being able to produce any immediate
73 XII,    I, 129   |            veracity of the Supreme Being, in order to prove the veracity
74 XII,    I, 129   |        prove the existence of that Being or any of his attributes.~
75 XII,   II, 134   |          not corrupted, instead of being improved, by the sciences,
76 XII,  III, 141   |           The non-existence of any being, without exception, is as
77 XII,  III, 141   |          the angel Gabriel, or any being never existed, may be a
78 XII,  III, 141   |       existence, therefore, of any being can only be proved by arguments
79 XII,  III, 141(*)|            the will of the supreme Being may create matter; but,
80 XII,  III, 141(*)|      priori, the will of any other being might create it, or any