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1 X, II, 109 | 100. I am the better pleased
2 X, II, 110 | 101. What we have said of miracles
3 XI, 0, 111 | 102. I was lately engaged in
4 XI, 0, 112 | 103. It seems then, say I, that
5 XI, 0, 113 | 104. I come hither, O ye Athenians,
6 XI, 0, 114 | 105. You then, who are my accusers,
7 XI, 0, 115 | 106. Allowing, therefore, the
8 XI, 0, 116 | 107. When priests and poets,
9 XI, 0, 117 | 108. Where, then, is the odiousness
10 XI, 0, 118 | 109. But what must a philosopher
11 II, 0, 11 | 11. Every one will readily
12 XI, 0, 119 | 110. Thus I bring the dispute,
13 XI, 0, 120 | 111. I observe (said I, finding
14 XI, 0, 121 | 112. The infinite difference
15 XI, 0, 122 | 113. The case is not the same
16 XI, 0, 123 | 114. There is still one circumstance,
17 XI, 0, 124 | 115. But there occurs to me (
18 XII, I, 125 | 116. There is not a greater
19 XII, I, 126 | 117. There is another species
20 XII, I, 127 | 118. It seems evident, that
21 XII, I, 128 | 119. So far, then, are we necessitated
22 II, 0, 12 | 12. Here therefore we may divide
23 XII, I, 129 | 120. To have recourse to the
24 XII, I, 130 | 121. This is a topic, therefore,
25 XII, I, 131 | 122. There is another sceptical
26 XII, I, 132 | 123. Thus the first philosophical
27 XII, II, 133 | 124. It may seem a very extravagant
28 XII, II, 134 | 125. The absurdity of these
29 XII, II, 135 | 126. The sceptical objections
30 XII, II, 136 | 127. The sceptic, therefore,
31 XII, II, 137 | 128. For here is the chief and
32 XII, III, 138 | 129. There is, indeed, a more
33 II, 0, 13 | 13. Nothing, at first view,
34 XII, III, 139 | 130. Another species of mitigated
35 XII, III, 140 | 131. It seems to me, that the
36 XII, III, 141 | 132. All other enquiries of
37 II, 0, 14 | 14. To prove this, the two
38 II, 0, 15 | 15. Secondly. If it happen,
39 II, 0, 16 | 16. There is, however, one
40 II, 0, 17 | 17. Here, therefore, is a proposition,
41 III, 0, 18 | 18. IT is evident that there
42 III, 0, 19 | 19. Though it be too obvious
43 IV, I, 20 | 20. All the objects of human
44 IV, I, 21 | 21. Matters of fact, which
45 IV, I, 22 | 22. All reasonings concerning
46 IV, I, 23 | 23. If we would satisfy ourselves,
47 IV, I, 24 | 24. This proposition, that
48 IV, I, 25 | 25. But to convince us that
49 IV, I, 26 | 26. Hence we may discover the
50 IV, I, 27 | 27. Nor is geometry, when taken
51 IV, II, 28 | 28. But we have not yet attained
52 IV, II, 30 | 30. This negative argument
53 IV, II, 31 | 31. In reality, all arguments
54 IV, II, 32 | 32. Should it be said that,
55 IV, II, 33 | 33. I must confess that a man
56 V, I, 34 | 34. The passion for philosophy,
57 V, I, 35 | 35. Suppose a person, though
58 V, I, 36 | 36. This principle is Custom
59 V, I, 37 | 37. But here it may be proper
60 V, I, 38 | 38. What, then, is the conclusion
61 V, II, 39 | 39. Nothing is more free than
62 V, II, 40 | 40. Were we to attempt a definition
63 V, II, 41 | 41. We have already observed
64 V, II, 42 | 42. We may add force to these
65 V, II, 43 | 43. No one can doubt but causation
66 V, II, 44 | 44. We may observe, that, in
67 V, II, 45 | 45. I shall add, for a further
68 VI, 0, 46 | 46. THOUGH there be no such
69 VI, 0, 47 | 47. The case is the same with
70 VII, I, 48 | 48 THE great advantage of the
71 VII, I, 49 | 49. There are no ideas, which
72 VII, I, 50 | 50. To be fully acquainted,
73 VII, I, 51 | 51. Since, therefore, external
74 VII, I, 52 | 52. We shall proceed to examine
75 VII, I, 53 | 53. Shall we then assert, that
76 VII, I, 54 | 54. The generality of mankind
77 VII, I, 55 | 55. Here, then, many philosophers
78 VII, I, 56 | 56. Thus, according to these
79 VII, I, 57 | 57. First, it seems to me that
80 II, 0, 58 | 58. But to hasten to a conclusion
81 II, 0, 59 | 59. But there still remains
82 II, 0, 60 | 60. And what stronger instance
83 II, 0, 61 | 61. To recapitulate, therefore,
84 VIII, I, 62 | 62. It might reasonably be
85 VIII, I, 63 | 63. This has been the case
86 VIII, I, 65 | 65. As to the first circumstance,
87 VIII, I, 66 | 66. We must not, however, expect
88 VIII, I, 67 | 67. I grant it possible to
89 VIII, I, 68 | 68. The philosopher, if he
90 VIII, I, 69 | 69. Thus it appears, not only
91 VIII, I, 70 | 70. Nor have philosophers ever
92 VIII, I, 71 | 71. I have frequently considered,
93 VIII, I, 72 | 72. It would seem, indeed,
94 VIII, I, 73 | 73. But to proceed in this
95 VIII, I, 74 | 74. Whatever definition we
96 VIII, II, 75 | 75. There is no method of reasoning
97 VIII, II, 76 | 76. All laws being founded
98 VIII, II, 77 | 77. It will be equally easy
99 VIII, II, 78 | 78. I pretend not to have obviated
100 VIII, II, 79 | 79. The answer to the first
101 VIII, II, 80 | 80. The case is the same with
102 IX, 0, 82 | 82. ALL our reasonings concerning
103 IX, 0, 83 | 83. First, It seems evident,
104 IX, 0, 84 | 84. Secondly, It is impossible,
105 IX, 0, 94 | 85. But though animals learn
106 X, I, 95 | 86. There is, in Dr. Tillotson'
107 X, I, 96 | 87. Though experience be our
108 X, I, 97 | 88. To apply these principles
109 X, I, 98 | 89. This contrariety of evidence,
110 X, I, 99 | 90. But in order to encrease
111 X, I, 100 | 91. The plain consequence is (
112 X, II, 101 | 92. In the foregoing reasoning
113 X, II, 102 | 93. Secondly. We may observe
114 X, II, 103 | 94. Thirdly. It forms a strong
115 X, II, 104 | 95. I may add as a fourth reason,
116 X, II, 105 | 96. One of the best attested
117 X, II, 106 | 97. Is the consequence just,
118 X, II, 107 | 98. Upon the whole, then, it
119 X, II, 108 | 99. I beg the limitations here
120 I, 0, 7 | disappointment, will at last abandon such airy sciences, and
121 X, II, 103 | judicious, have at last been abandoned even by the vulgar. Be assured,
122 XII, III, 138 | tincture of Pyrrhonism might abate their pride, by showing
123 X, II, 105 | France upon the tomb of Abbe Paris, the famous Jansenist,
124 IV, I, 23 | strong natural reason and abilities; if that object be entirely
125 XI, 0, 116 | which the world so much abounds. The obstinate and intractable
126 X, II, 103 | barbarians carry the report abroad. None of their countrymen
127 XII, I, 127 | bestows not being on it: our absence does not annihilate it.
128 I, 0, 10 | But as, after all, the abstractedness of these speculations is
129 VII, I, 48 | other, in order to reach the abstruser truths of that science.
130 V, I, 34 | follies, it raises to itself abundance of enemies, who stigmatize
131 V, II, 41 | impression must concur, we are abundantly supplied with experiments
132 XI, 0, 113 | lies, I will prevent this abuse. We shall not here dispute
133 V, I, 36(*) | inform us of the enormous abuses, that ambition, in every
134 VII, I, 57 | short to fathom such immense abysses. And however we may flatter
135 V, I, 34 | Sceptical philosophy. The academics always talk of doubt and
136 IX, 0, 83 | with a certain tone and accent?~ In all these cases, we
137 V, II, 42(*) | quibus memoria dignos viros acceperimus multum esse versatos, magis
138 V, II, 42(*) | mihi Plato in mentem, quem accepimus primum hic disputare solitum:
139 I, 0, 4 | which is commonly but little acceptable in the world, as being supposed
140 I, 0, 6 | be despised; as being one accession to those few safe and harmless
141 XI, 0, 121 | effaced by time or other accidents. Here we mount from the
142 XII, III, 138 | decision, ought for ever to accompany a just reasoner.~
143 I, 0, 4 | diffuse and cultivate so accomplished a character, nothing can
144 II, 0, 60(*) | call that its power: And accordingly, it is allowed by all philosophers,
145 VIII, II, 78 | that the Deity, not man, is accountable for them. But as either
146 IV, II, 33 | seem to remove all this accusation of arrogance or suspicion
147 XI, 0, 112 | that if Epicurus had been accused before the people, by any
148 I, 0, 9 | it may at last be happily achieved; if not, it may, however,
149 I, 0, 7 | hopes that the glory of achieving so hard an adventure is
150 VIII, II, 80 | them? Or why should not the acknowledgement of a real distinction between
151 VIII, I, 70 | action of any kind without acknowledging the doctrine of necessity,
152 VII, I, 48 | causes, and reduces us to an acknowledgment of our ignorance. The chief
153 XI, 0, 113 | priests (in which I willingly acquiesce), indulge a rash curiosity,
154 I, 0, 4 | extent of security or his acquisitions. Man is a sociable, no less
155 VIII, II, 78 | we are, at the same time, acted upon. The ultimate Author
156 VIII, I, 65 | his supernatural force and activity, by which he was able to
157 VIII, I, 70 | conduct and sentiments of his actors either natural or unnatural
158 IX, 0, 94 | or mechanical power, that acts in us unknown to ourselves;
159 VII, I, 50 | the power of force, which actuates the whole machine, is entirely
160 VIII, II, 79 | where they now excite such acute torments. These enlarged
161 IV, I, 23 | of its causes or effects. Adam, though his rational faculties
162 XI, 0, 116 | subject, and have certainly added something to the attributes
163 I, 0, 4 | and to his own age. And Addison, perhaps, will be read with
164 X, II, 102 | reason or reflection; but addressing itself entirely to the fancy
165 X, II, 105 | their testimony. And what adds mightily to the force of
166 IV, I, 24 | discover that they will adhere together in such a manner
167 XI, 0, 115 | attributes, and a scheme of administration more suitable to such imaginary
168 XI, 0, 111 | conversation began with my admiring the singular good fortune
169 X, II, 103 | civilized people has ever given admission to any of them, that people
170 XI, 0, 116 | particular attributes; I must admonish you, that you have departed
171 I, 0, 4 | human race, and secretly admonished them to allow none of these
172 V, II, 42(*) | avum cogitare. Tanta vis admonitionis est in locis; ut non sine
173 I, 0, 7 | to destroy the false and adulterate. Indolence, which, to some
174 I, 0, 5 | Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning
175 I, 0, 7 | of achieving so hard an adventure is reserved for him alone.
176 I, 0, 7 | unknown to former ages. Each adventurous genius will still leap at
177 XII, II, 135 | old age, prosperity and adversity; the perpetual contradiction
178 X, II, 108 | deceiving the world in an affair of such consequence; the
179 V, I, 36 | maxims concerning human affairs and the conduct of life;
180 V, I, 34 | itself with any natural affection or propensity; and that
181 V, II, 42(*) | non memoriam solum mihi afferunt, sed ipsum videntur in conspectu
182 XII, III, 138 | by the violence of their affirmations and obstinacy of their belief.
183 X, II, 102 | rule; but when anything is affirmed utterly absurd and miraculous,
184 VIII, II, 79 | of consolation under all afflictions, while they taught their
185 II, 0, 61 | apprehend this reasoning. I am afraid that, should I multiply
186 VIII, I, 65 | any purpose. Why is the aged husband-man more skilful
187 VII, I, 55 | organs of sense, which, being agitated by external objects, produce
188 I, 0, 3 | feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence
189 X, II, 105 | number of circumstances, agreeing to the corroboration of
190 XI, 0, 116 | still insist, that they have aided the ascent of reason by
191 V, I, 34 | inconvenience, that, though it aims at the correction of our
192 I, 0, 7 | will at last abandon such airy sciences, and discover the
193 VIII, I, 68 | fellow discovers an uncommon alacrity in his carriage: But he
194 XI, 0, 111 | disputation. After the first alarm, therefore, was over, which
195 X, II, 108 | writers of natural magic or alchemy, or such authors, who seem,
196 X, II, 105 | who cured a blind man in Alexandria, by means of his spittle,
197 IV, I, 20 | the sciences of Geometry, Algebra, and Arithmetic; and in
198 V, II, 42(*) | facta audiamus aut scriptum aliquod legamus? Velut ego nunc
199 VIII, I, 66 | manner, without making any allowance for the diversity of characters,
200 XI, 0, 111 | her offspring, who, after allying with superstition, separates
201 X, II, 108 | ascribed, be, in this case, Almighty, it does not, upon that
202 XI, 0, 111 | and to officiate at the altar, in the most sacred rites
203 X, II, 106 | to the common method of altercations and debate and flying rumours;
204 VIII, II, 80 | not to be controuled or altered by any philosophical theory
205 X, I, 99(*) | discoverable by men or not. This alters not its nature and essence.
206 X, II, 106 | missionary, a prophet, an ambassador from heaven? Who would not
207 VIII, I, 62 | long undecided but some ambiguous expressions, which keep
208 X, II, 101 | is founded, may possibly amount to an entire proof, and
209 XII, II, 137 | his objections are mere amusement, and can have no other tendency
210 I, 0, 4 | enjoy company agreeable and amusing, or preserve the proper
211 IX, 0, 82 | has place in all. These analogical observations may be carried
212 V, II, 40 | other operations of the mind analogous to it, and to trace up these
213 I, 0, 7 | and show, from an exact analysis of its powers and capacity,
214 II, 0, 14 | sufficient. First, when we analyze our thoughts or ideas, however
215 IX, 0, 82 | similarity and resemblance. The anatomical observations, formed upon
216 I, 0, 5 | of life and manners. The anatomist presents to the eye the
217 IV, I, 22 | connected with it. If we anatomize all the other reasonings
218 VII, I, 52 | Thirdly, We learn from anatomy, that the immediate object
219 X, II, 103 | from ignorant and barbarous ancestors, who transmitted them with
220 IV, I, 21 | cultivated, either by the ancients or moderns; and therefore
221 V, I, 38 | flame or snow be presented anew to the senses, the mind
222 XII, III, 141 | But that Caesar, or the angel Gabriel, or any being never
223 XII, II, 133 | that which proves the three angles of a triangle to be equal
224 VII, I, 56 | to adjust its parts, and animate by his breath all the wheels
225 V, II, 39 | ideas, it could voluntarily annex this particular idea to
226 II, 0, 60 | are exerted, without our annexing to them any idea of communicated
227 XII, I, 127 | creature were absent or annihilated. Even the animal creation
228 VIII, I, 65 | this kind irregular and anomalous, it were impossible to collect
229 XII, I, 125 | a species of scepticism, antecedent to all study and philosophy,
230 X, I, 99 | the testimony considered apart and in itself, amounts to
231 III, 0, 19 | original:* the mention of one apartment in a building naturally
232 X, II, 108(*)| Novum Organum, II, aph. 29.
233 VII, I, 54(*) | Theos apo mechanes (deus ex machina).
234 XI, 0, 122 | observation. So that my apology for Epicurus will still
235 X, I, 95 | in the testimony of the apostles, who were eye-witnesses
236 VII, I, 52 | never be foreseen from any apparent energy or power in the cause,
237 IV, II, 31 | one, on account of this appearing similarity, expects the
238 VIII, II, 79 | surely more irritate than appease a man lying under the racking
239 X, II, 108 | to have an unconquerable appetite for falsehood and fable." *~
240 II, 0, 61 | the reader will readily apprehend this reasoning. I am afraid
241 IX, 0, 83 | experience which renders a dog apprehensive of pain, when you menace
242 VII, I, 57 | it to a man, sufficiently apprized of the weakness of human
243 VI, 0, 47 | different climates, and approaches to a certainty in the more
244 VII, I, 53 | nature of an idea, or the aptitude of the one to produce the
245 VIII, I, 70 | indeed, when we consider how aptly natural and moral evidence
246 X, II, 104 | testimony of a few barbarous Arabians: And on the other hand,
247 X, II, 105 | Saragossa, the capital of Aragon, where he was shewn, in
248 XI, 0, 114 | licence of conjecture, and arbitrarily suppose the existence of
249 XII, I, 131 | mind, without any external archetype or model, which they represent.
250 XI, 0, 114 | he was also a statuary or architect, and was an artist no less
251 I, 0, 9 | greater accuracy, and more ardent application may bring these
252 X, II, 102 | of surprise and wonder, arising from miracles, being an
253 IV, I, 20 | of Geometry, Algebra, and Arithmetic; and in short, every affirmation
254 VII, I, 52 | with palsy in the leg or arm, or who had newly lost those
255 | around
256 XI, 0, 113 | order, beauty, and wise arrangement of the universe; and then
257 X, I, 95 | at least silence the most arrogant bigotry and superstition,
258 IV, I, 22 | precarious. The hearing of an articulate voice and rational discourse
259 II, 0, 17(*) | opposition to what is uncommon, artificial, or miraculous. If by innate
260 IV, I, 21 | of human reason, are not ascertained in the same manner; nor
261 IV, I, 25 | imagine some event, which it ascribes to the object as its effect;
262 I, 0, 8 | remain long in the same aspect or situation; and must be
263 XII, I, 126 | oar in water; the various aspects of objects, according to
264 V, I, 34 | is certain that, while we aspire to the magnanimous firmness
265 XI, 0, 113 | Athenians, to justify in your assembly what I maintained in my
266 V, II, 39 | difference between the conception assented to and that which is rejected,
267 XII, I, 130 | nature, may they say, in assenting to the veracity of sense?
268 VIII, I, 71 | philosophers to make good their assertion, by defining or describing
269 X, I, 98 | contrary, with too violent asseverations. There are many other particulars
270 IV, I, 27 | are employed, either to assist experience in the discovery
271 IV, I, 27 | its antagonist. Geometry assists us in the application of
272 V, II, 41 | relations or principles of associations, this may be established
273 X, II, 105 | extraordinary airs of divinity assumed by Alexander and Demetrius.
274 X, II, 108 | artifice: All this might astonish me; but I would still reply,
275 X, II, 109 | bondage by prodigies the most astonishing imaginable: I desire anyone
276 I, 0, 9 | actuated in its operations? Astronomers had long contented themselves
277 X, II, 105 | contrary imputation, of atheism and profaneness: The persons,
278 XII, I, 125 | blinded as to be a speculative atheist. How shall we reconcile
279 XI, 0, 113 | fortuitous concourse of atoms, or if chance could produce
280 XI, 0, 120 | always expressed a particular attachment. But allowing you to make
281 VIII, I, 65 | was hurried on singly to attack multitudes, as when he describes
282 VIII, II, 79 | maintain their ground when attacked by such powerful antagonists.
283 X, II, 102 | Happily, this pitch it seldom attains. But what a Tully or a Demosthenes
284 X, II, 103 | authority, which always attend received opinions. When
285 XII, III, 139 | the immediate pleasure, attending such an occupation, philosophical
286 X, II, 101 | falsehood; and at the same time, attesting facts performed in such
287 I, 0, 5 | of human life in various attitudes and situations; and inspire
288 X, II, 104 | particular system to which it is attributed; so has it the same force,
289 IV, I, 24 | we make no difficulty in attributing all our knowledge of it
290 V, II, 42(*) | eorum ipsorum aut facta audiamus aut scriptum aliquod legamus?
291 V, II, 42(*) | hic Xenocrates, hic eius auditor Polemo; cuius ipsa illa
292 X, II, 102 | self-interest with equal force. His auditors may not have, and commonly
293 IV, II, 32 | ignorance, if we do not augment our knowledge.~
294 V, II, 44 | carried to conceive, that it augments, not extinguishes the flame.
295 X, II, 103 | that sage emperor Marcus Aurelius; so far as to make him trust
296 X, II, 106 | for it. The avidum genus auricularum, * the gazing populace,
297 XI, 0, 122 | attributes, we can never be authorised to infer or suppose, by
298 I, 0, 6 | in upon every unguarded avenue of the mind, and overwhelm
299 I, 0, 6 | of life leads through the avenues of science and learning;
300 X, II, 106 | always prepared for it. The avidum genus auricularum, * the
301 VIII, I, 72 | necessity, which we have already avowed, in every deliberation of
302 V, II, 42(*) | nostrum vero in primis avum cogitare. Tanta vis admonitionis
303 VIII, I, 69 | life that no man, while awake, is ever a moment without
304 XII, II, 137 | philosophical researches. When he awakes from his dream, he will
305 | away
306 VIII, I, 70 | from the operation of the axe or wheel. His mind runs
307 X, II, 108 | it may be covered.~ Lord Bacon seems to have embraced the
308 XI, 0, 117 | good, and punishment of the bad, beyond the ordinary course
309 I, 0, 5 | in the subdividing and balancing of power; the lawyer more
310 IV, I, 21 | and security, which is the bane of all reasoning and free
311 II, 0, 17 | equally intelligible, and banish all that jargon, which has
312 XI, 0, 111 | statutes. For, except the banishment of Protagoras, and the death
313 XI, 0, 111(*)| Lucian, sump. e Lapithai [The Banquet, or the Lapiths].~
314 VII, I, 48 | how soon nature throws a bar to all our enquiries concerning
315 X, II, 103 | ignorant and barbarous of these barbarians carry the report abroad.
316 VIII, I, 70 | gaoler, as the walls and bars with which he is surrounded;
317 X, II, 106 | cases, when it relates the battle of Philippi or Pharsalia
318 XII, I, 131(*)| or modern philosophers, Bayle not excepted. He professes,
319 XI, 0, 112 | fill all the urn with white beans, and leave not a black one
320 I, 0, 4 | sense of mankind in more beautiful and more engaging colours,
321 | became
322 X, II, 106 | those delivered by Mariana, Bede, or any monkish historian.~
323 X, II, 108 | 99. I beg the limitations here made
324 XI, 0, 111 | reader.~ Our conversation began with my admiring the singular
325 IV, II, 32 | say it is experimental, is begging the question. For all inferences
326 | beginning
327 X, II, 103 | height, arose from like beginnings; but being sown in a more
328 I, 0, 5 | reasonably be pleaded in their behalf.~ We may begin with observing,
329 | behind
330 X, II, 105 | devotion, to be thorough believers of the miracle. Here the
331 I, 0, 1 | sentiments; and so they can but bend our hearts to the love of
332 I, 0, 6 | so far to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind. And though these
333 V, I, 38 | of love, when we receive benefits; or hatred, when we meet
334 VIII, II, 79 | an essential part of this benevolent system, and could not possibly
335 I, 0, 4 | cannot always support its bent to care and industry. It
336 XII, I, 132 | mind, not in the object. Bereave matter of all its intelligible
337 XII, I, 131(*)| argument is drawn from Dr. Berkeley; and indeed most of the
338 XII, I, 127 | perceives it. Our presence bestows not being on it: our absence
339 II, 0, 17 | opinion, that Locke was betrayed into this question by the
340 VIII, I, 67 | contrariety of effects always betrays a contrariety of causes,
341 V, I, 34 | already draws too much, by the bias and propensity of the natural
342 I, 0, 4 | them to allow none of these biasses to draw too much, so as
343 XII, II, 133 | and easy, and the former big with contradiction and absurdity.
344 XI, 0, 111 | ancient history, of this bigotted jealousy, with which the
345 IV, I, 22 | it. Were there nothing to bind them together, the inference
346 IX, 0, 94 | as that, which teaches a bird, with such exactness, the
347 X, II, 108 | monsters and prodigious births or productions, and in a
348 II, 0, 16 | that he will perceive a blank, where that shade is wanting,
349 VIII, I, 70 | separation of the head and body; bleeding, convulsive motions, and
350 XII, I, 125 | whether any man can be so blinded as to be a speculative atheist.
351 IV, I, 26 | the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result
352 IX, 0, 82 | when the circulation of the blood, for instance, is clearly
353 II, 0, 16 | one particular shade of blue, for instance, which it
354 I, 0, 9 | dogmatical, than even the boldest and most affirmative philosophy,
355 X, II, 109 | Of their deliverance from bondage by prodigies the most astonishing
356 V, II, 41 | Causation; which are the only bonds that unite our thoughts
357 I, 0, 5 | muscles, the fabric of the bones, and the use and figure
358 XII, II, 133 | certain places; but that light borders upon the most profound darkness.
359 I, 0, 1 | considers man chiefly as born for action; and as influenced
360 I, 0, 1 | the most amiable colours; borrowing all helps from poetry and
361 III, 0, 18 | the compound ones, were bound together by some universal
362 I, 0, 2 | human curiosity must be bounded. Though their speculations
363 VIII, II, 81 | without launching into so boundless an ocean of doubt, uncertainty,
364 I, 0, 6 | raise these intangling brambles to cover and protect their
365 IV, II, 30 | and enumerating all the branches of human knowledge, endeavour
366 III, 0, 18 | particular thought, which breaks in upon the regular tract
367 VII, I, 56 | parts, and animate by his breath all the wheels of that stupendous
368 XI, 0, 120 | surrounded with heaps of brick and stone and mortar, and
369 I, 0, 3 | reforms their conduct, and brings them nearer to that model
370 III, 0, 18 | wanting, the person who broke the thread of discourse
371 I, 0, 4 | Aristotle is utterly decayed. La Bruyere passes the seas, and still
372 V, I, 37 | country the remains of pompous buildings, would conclude that the
373 I, 0, 6 | generality of mankind, may seem burdensome and laborious. Obscurity,
374 XII, III, 139 | stone will fall, or fire burn; can we ever satisfy ourselves
375 VI, 0, 47 | operation. Fire has always burned, and water suffocated every
376 V, I, 34 | indolence, which, hating the bustle of the world, and drudgery
377 IX, 0, 92 | 8. Byasses from prejudice, education,
378 XII, III, 141 | distinctly conceived. But that Caesar, or the angel Gabriel, or
379 X, II, 106 | authority? Suppose that the Caesarean and Pompeian factions had,
380 X, II, 105(*)| same account, Lives of the Caesars (Vespasian).
381 V, I, 38 | part of this section is not calculated for them, and the following
382 V, I, 36 | immediately applied with due calmness and distinction. The truth
383 XI, 0, 111 | and those harsh winds of calumny and persecution, which blow
384 X, II, 105 | contemporary writer, noted for candour and veracity, and withal,
385 X, II, 105 | miracle was vouched by all the canons of the church; and the whole
386 X, II, 102 | sufficient judgement to canvass his evidence: what judgement
387 X, II, 105 | passed through Saragossa, the capital of Aragon, where he was
388 X, II, 102 | fancy or the affections, captivates the willing hearers, and
389 X, II, 102 | Athenian audience, every Capuchin, every itinerant or stationary
390 VIII, I, 68 | uncommon alacrity in his carriage: But he has met with a sudden
391 I, 0, 7 | perceive the necessity of carrying the war into the most secret
392 XII, I, 125 | is much inculcated by Des Cartes and others, as a sovereign
393 XII, I, 125 | be already diffident. The Cartesian doubt, therefore, were it
394 VII, I, 57(*) | it. Malebranche and other Cartesians made it the foundation of
395 V, II, 40 | than ideas of an enchanted castle. They are very different
396 V, I, 35 | conjunction may be arbitrary and casual. There may be no reason
397 VIII, II, 76 | they perform ignorantly and casually, whatever may be the consequences.
398 X, II, 108 | a tendency towards that catastrophe, comes within the reach
399 X, II, 105 | where he was shewn, in the cathedral, a man, who had served seven
400 V, II, 42(*) | solebam intuens, Scipionem, Catonem, Laelium, nostrum vero in
401 V, II, 42(*) | est in locis; ut non sine causa ex his memoriae deducta
402 XII, I, 128 | perceptions of the mind must be caused by external objects, entirely
403 VIII, I, 74(*)| producing is synonimous to causing. In like manner, if a cause
404 XII, I, 128 | system, and obviate the cavils and objections of the sceptics.
405 XII, III, 141(*)| of matter was excluded, ceases to be a maxim, according
406 VII, I, 56 | which they affect so much to celebrate. It argues surely more power
407 VIII, I, 70 | senses, by a train of causes, cemented together by what we are
408 VIII, I, 65 | narration with stories of centaurs and dragons, miracles and
409 V, II, 41 | distant and obscure.~ The ceremonies of the Roman Catholic religion
410 IX, 0, 83 | more fatiguing part of the chace to the younger, and will
411 VIII, I, 73 | is not a prisoner and in chains. Here, then, is no subject
412 II, 0, 13 | universe, into the unbounded chaos, where nature is supposed
413 VII, I, 50(*) | Mr. Locke, in his chapter of power, says that, finding
414 VIII, I, 70 | gold on the pavement at Charing Cross, may as well expect
415 I, 0, 6 | protect their weakness. Chased from the open country, these
416 XII, III, 138 | perplexes their understanding, checks their passion, and suspends
417 XII, III, 141 | natural philosophy, physic, chemistry, &c. where the qualities,
418 IX, 0, 84 | by reasoning: Neither are children: Neither are the generality
419 VII, I, 48 | reasoning which runs not into chimera and conceit. Where we trace
420 I, 0, 8 | science is uncertain and chimerical; unless we should entertain
421 X, II, 104 | Turkey, of Siam, and of China should, all of them, be
422 X, II, 104 | and witnesses, Grecian, Chinese, and Roman Catholic, who
423 X, II, 109 | deluge: Of the arbitrary choice of one people, as the favourites
424 VIII, I, 70 | attempts for his freedom, chooses rather to work upon the
425 II, 0, 17(*) | they employed, were not chosen with such caution, nor so
426 X, II, 109 | principles of these pretended Christians, not as the word or testimony
427 XII, III, 141 | disquisitions in history, chronology, geography, and astronomy.~
428 XII, I, 129 | making a very unexpected circuit. If his veracity were at
429 IX, 0, 82 | is certain, that when the circulation of the blood, for instance,
430 II, 0, 17 | question. A like ambiguity and circumlocution seem to run through that
431 XI, 0, 123 | cannot allow them to be good citizens and politicians; since they
432 X, II, 106 | factions had, each of them, claimed the victory in these battles,
433 VII, I, 57(*) | authority in England. Locke, Clarke, and Cudworth, never so
434 V, II, 43 | handywork of a saint; and if his cloaths and furniture are ever to
435 VIII, I, 67 | for the stopping of any clock or watch than to say that
436 IV, I, 24 | the world, which bear a close analogy to the whole course
437 IV, I, 22 | human make and fabric, and closely connected with it. If we
438 XI, 0, 119 | in the school, or in the closet. In vain would our limited
439 II, 0, 11 | original perceptions were clothed. It requires no nice discernment
440 X, II, 105 | have we to oppose to such a cloud of witnesses, but the absolute
441 VIII, I, 65 | experience, give us the clue of human nature, and teach
442 VIII, I, 69 | from the proper motives, to co-operate with their own. In all these
443 V, II, 42(*) | nostrum vero in primis avum cogitare. Tanta vis admonitionis
444 IV, II, 29 | time, which fell under its cognizance: but why this experience
445 VIII, I, 65 | anomalous, it were impossible to collect any general observations
446 X, II, 108 | ought," says he, "to make a collection or particular history of
447 VIII, I, 65 | revolutions, are so many collections of experiments, by which
448 VIII, I, 65 | declarations pass for the specious colouring of a cause. And though virtue
449 V, II, 39 | on the will, nor can be commanded at pleasure. It must be
450 V, II, 39 | to such a conception as commands our assent, and which is
451 V, I, 38 | will be pardonable, perhaps commendable, if it carry us on to still
452 VIII, I, 69 | to supply him with those commodities which are requisite for
453 XI, 0, 113 | and the interest of the commonwealth, are diverted to the disquisitions
454 IV, II, 29 | bodies never lose but by communicating it to others; of this we
455 V, I, 36 | one, we mean it only in a comparative sense, and suppose him possessed
456 XII, III, 138 | are but inconsiderable, if compared with the universal perplexity
457 II, 0, 60(*) | need not be decided by comparing its effects in equal or
458 IX, 0, 94 | by any such relations or comparisons of ideas, as are the proper
459 VII, I, 48 | and disadvantages nearly compensate each other, and reduce both
460 I, 0, 2 | themselves sufficiently compensated for the labour of their
461 VII, I, 49 | obscurity, which is so much complained of in this species of philosophy.~
462 VIII, I, 72(*)| at that time, have been compleated into the thing itself; because,
463 XI, 0, 120 | which will receive its completion in some distant point of
464 VII, I, 49 | hitherto been able to attain. Complex ideas may, perhaps, be well
465 VIII, I, 72(*)| most secret springs of our complexion and disposition. Now this
466 IX, 0, 86 | 2. Where there is a complication of causes to produce any
467 I, 0, 5 | be improper, perhaps, to comply with this general opinion,
468 XII, III, 140 | sophistry and illusion. As the component parts of quantity and number
469 VII, I, 49 | parts or simple ideas, that compose them. But when we have pushed
470 XII, II, 133(*)| infinite number of them composes an infinite extension. How
471 II, 0, 13 | sentiment: the mixture and composition of these belongs alone to
472 II, 0, 58 | ideas is not a whit more comprehensible: So that, upon the whole,
473 VII, I, 50 | whole machine, is entirely concealed from us, and never discovers
474 II, 0, 15 | he finds no difficulty in conceiving these objects. The case
475 V, II, 44 | us; yet our thoughts and conceptions have still, we find, gone
476 XII, II, 134(*)| any farther. It certainly concerns all lovers of science not
477 X, I, 95 | real presence, which is as concise, and elegant, and strong
478 X, II, 105 | of mankind. He therefore concluded, like a just reasoner, that
479 VII, I, 50(*) | productions in matter, and concluding that there must somewhere
480 XI, 0, 113 | proceed from the fortuitous concourse of atoms, or if chance could
481 X, I, 99(*) | that the event and command concurred by accident, there is no
482 X, II, 109 | relates, corroborated by no concurring testimony, and resembling
483 XI, 0, 112 | be difficult, upon such conditions, replied he: And if you
484 VII, I, 50(*) | this philosopher himself confesses. This, therefore, can never
485 XII, III, 139 | distant and high enquiries, confines itself to common life, and
486 V, I, 34 | hasty determinations, of confining to very narrow bounds the
487 X, II, 102 | reports, till he find them confirmed by some greater evidence.
488 X, II, 105 | eye-witnesses of the fact, and confirming their testimony, after the
489 VI, 0, 45(*) | will rise to-morrow. But to conform our language more to common
490 X, II, 109 | I think it may serve to confound those dangerous friends
491 XII, II, 137 | here is the chief and most confounding objection to excessive scepticism,
492 VII, I, 56 | have a more philosophical confutation of this theory, perhaps
493 V, II, 44 | have been accustomed to conjoin with the former? This is
494 III, 0, 19 | these principles serve to connect ideas will not, I believe,
495 VII, I, 52 | power in the cause, which connects it with the effect, and
496 V, II, 41 | that nature has established connexions among particular ideas,
497 VIII, I, 70 | refusal of the soldiers to consent to his escape; the action
498 VII, I, 48 | Euclid so simple, as not to consist of more parts, than are
499 XI, 0, 113 | own topics, if they argue consistently, must allow to be solid
500 VIII, II, 79 | rest, derived a topic of consolation under all afflictions, while