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501 V, II, 42(*) | afferunt, sed ipsum videntur in conspectu meo hic ponere. Hic Speusippus,
502 VI, 0, 46 | reliance or security, which constitutes the nature of belief and
503 VIII, I, 74 | opposed to necessity, not to constraint, is the same thing with
504 IV, I, 25 | is arbitrary, where we consult not experience; so must
505 IV, I, 25 | result from it, without consulting past observation; after
506 IV, I, 23 | warmth of fire that it would consume him. No object ever discovers,
507 VIII, I, 70 | hold it there till it be consumed: And this event, I think
508 X, I, 99 | suspended in the air; that fire consumes wood, and is extinguished
509 XII, II, 133 | than any finite quantity, containing quantities infinitely less
510 II, 0, 58 | same difficulty occurs in contemplating the operations of mind on
511 I, 0, 8 | means obvious) the more contemptible still must the ignorance
512 IV, I, 27 | proportion of its solid contents and its velocity; and consequently,
513 X, I, 98 | our observation, here is a contest of two opposite experiences;
514 VIII, I, 62 | the air in their fruitless contests, and never arrive at any
515 V, II, 44 | friend to have once existed. Continguity to home can never excite
516 VII, I, 57(*) | body at rest or in motion continues for ever in its present
517 X, II, 104 | and had in express terms contradicted it, with the same certainty
518 X, I, 95 | give our assent to it. It contradicts sense, though both the scripture
519 VII, I, 56 | It argues more wisdom to contrive at first the fabric of the
520 XI, 0, 116 | is the sole cause, which controlled the power and benevolence
521 VIII, II, 80 | sentiments are not to be controuled or altered by any philosophical
522 X, I, 95 | Holy Spirit.~ Nothing is so convenient as a decisive argument of
523 X, II, 106 | a man has first made a convert of himself, and entered
524 VIII, I, 67 | causes. This possibility is converted into certainty by farther
525 VIII, I, 70 | head and body; bleeding, convulsive motions, and death. Here
526 XII, II, 137 | knows not what to answer. A Copernican or Ptolemaic, who supports
527 II, 0, 61 | by all the eloquence and copious expression in the world.
528 IV, II, 28 | who push them from every corner to which they retreat, and
529 V, I, 34 | that, though it aims at the correction of our manners, and extirpation
530 I, 0, 5 | society, and bestow a similar correctness on every art and calling.
531 III, 0, 18 | compounded, do yet nearly correspond to each other: a certain
532 II, 0, 14 | lively perception, which corresponds to it.~
533 X, II, 109 | facts which it relates, corroborated by no concurring testimony,
534 X, II, 105 | circumstances, agreeing to the corroboration of one fact? And what have
535 XII, II, 134 | whose judgement is not corrupted, instead of being improved,
536 I, 0, 10 | pains these researches may cost us, we may think ourselves
537 II, 0, 13 | shapes and appearances, costs the imagination no more
538 IV, II, 32 | seems the same difficulty, couched in different terms. The
539 XI, 0, 116 | who admitted them into the councils of the gods, who opened
540 VIII, II, 80 | uncertain speculations able to counterbalance the sentiments which arise
541 XI, 0, 114 | serve as a proof, that the counterbalancing weight exceeds ten ounces;
542 X, II, 105 | could scarcely admit of a counterfeit, and the witnesses very
543 XII, III, 138 | and have no idea of any counterpoising argument, they throw themselves
544 X, I, 98 | there necessarily arises a counterpoize, and mutual destruction
545 VIII, I, 65 | describes the supernatural courage of Alexander, by which he
546 X, II, 105 | manner with his friends and courtiers, and never affected those
547 X, II, 108 | specious pretence it may be covered.~ Lord Bacon seems to have
548 IV, I, 24 | is strongest, it not only covers our natural ignorance, but
549 I, 0, 6 | oppressed. And many, through cowardice and folly, open the gates
550 IV, II, 33 | long before I was out of my cradle.~ ~
551 I, 0, 6 | understanding, or from the craft of popular superstitions,
552 XI, 0, 111 | toleration, and was never cramped, even in its most extravagant
553 VII, I, 55 | it is not the will which creates that idea: It is the universal
554 XI, 0, 111 | extravagant principles, by any creeds, concessions, or penal statutes.
555 II, 0, 13 | one planet, along which it creeps with pain and difficulty;
556 XII, I, 126 | their sphere, the proper criteria of truth and falsehood.
557 I, 0, 9 | has been the endeavour of critics, logicians, and even politicians:
558 XII, I, 126 | numberless occasions; the crooked appearance of an oar in
559 VIII, I, 70 | the pavement at Charing Cross, may as well expect that
560 I, 0, 9 | attempted to impose its crude dictates and principles
561 IV, I, 27 | discover by reasoning that crystal is the effect of heat, and
562 XII, III, 141 | unintelligible. That the cube root of 64 is equal to the
563 VII, I, 57(*) | England. Locke, Clarke, and Cudworth, never so much as take notice
564 V, II, 42(*) | dicam, an errore quodam, ut, cum ea loca videamus, in quibus
565 X, II, 105 | reports of Vespasian, who cured a blind man in Alexandria,
566 X, II, 105 | Emperor, for these miraculous cures. The story may be seen in
567 V, II, 42(*) | quam videmus. Equidem etiam curiam nostram, Hostiliam dico,
568 X, II, 105 | were so long deluded. The curing of the sick, giving hearing
569 VIII, I, 65 | The veracity of Quintus Curtius is as much to be suspected
570 XII, II, 133 | of contact between other curves and their tangents may be
571 X, II, 106 | would not encounter many dangers and difficulties, in order
572 IV, I, 22 | rational discourse in the dark assures us of the presence
573 V, II, 42(*) | Naturane nobis, inquit, datum dicam, an errore quodam,
574 XII, II, 133 | between these she is so dazzled and confounded, that she
575 VIII, I, 69 | proportion as men extend their dealings, and render their intercourse
576 X, II, 106 | method of altercations and debate and flying rumours; especially
577 I, 0, 4 | of Aristotle is utterly decayed. La Bruyere passes the seas,
578 X, I, 100 | should either deceive or be deceived, or that the fact, which
579 VII, I, 52 | But consciousness never deceives. Consequently, neither in
580 X, II, 108 | almost impossibility of deceiving the world in an affair of
581 II, 0, 60(*) | dispute, I say, need not be decided by comparing its effects
582 X, I, 95 | Nothing is so convenient as a decisive argument of this kind, which
583 VIII, I, 65 | longer deceive us. Public declarations pass for the specious colouring
584 X, II, 109 | a serious consideration declare, whether he thinks that
585 VIII, II, 81 | prescience; or to defend absolute decrees, and yet free the Deity
586 X, I, 96 | where they are opposite, and deduct the smaller number from
587 V, II, 42(*) | sine causa ex his memoriae deducta sit disciplina."~ Cicero,
588 XI, 0, 117 | and that every argument, deducted from causes to effects,
589 X, I, 100 | force, which remains, after deducting the inferior." When anyone
590 II, 0, 16 | descending gradually from the deepest to the lightest; it is plain
591 XI, 0, 123 | generality of mankind are more deeply interested and concerned.~
592 VI, 0, 47 | and make them sensible how defective all common theories are
593 XI, 0, 116 | obsequious submission and pious deference. I ask; who carried them
594 VIII, I, 71 | good their assertion, by defining or describing that necessity,
595 VII, I, 56 | more power in the Deity to delegate a certain degree of power
596 I, 0, 8 | advantage of rejecting, after deliberate enquiry, the most uncertain
597 I, 0, 4 | conversation that discernment and delicacy which arise from polite
598 XII, III, 139 | man is naturally sublime, delighted with whatever is remote
599 I, 0, 6 | whatever labour, must needs be delightful and rejoicing.~ But this
600 I, 0, 8 | who, with so much success, delineate the parts of the mind, in
601 I, 0, 5 | useful to the painter in delineating even a Venus or an Helen.
602 I, 0, 8 | this mental geography, or delineation of the distinct parts and
603 X, I, 97 | in human testimony. A man delirious, or noted for falsehood
604 X, II, 109 | of the author: Of their deliverance from bondage by prodigies
605 X, I, 98 | from the manner of their delivering their testimony; or from
606 X, II, 109 | destruction of the world by a deluge: Of the arbitrary choice
607 X, II, 103 | military expedition to his delusive prophecies.~ The advantages
608 XI, 0, 120 | not the artifice of the demagogues of old; and as you were
609 IV, II, 33 | to refuse so equitable a demand. You cannot say that the
610 X, II, 105 | assumed by Alexander and Demetrius. The historian, a contemporary
611 IV, I, 21 | vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood. Were it demonstratively
612 IV, I, 20 | triangle in nature, the truths demonstrated by Euclid would for ever
613 VI, 0, 45(*) | to divide arguments into demonstrations, proofs, and probabilities.
614 X, II, 102 | attains. But what a Tully or a Demosthenes could scarcely effect over
615 VIII, I, 72(*)| nothing, because, when by a denial of it we are provoked to
616 VIII, II, 76 | principle, therefore, which denies necessity, and consequently
617 XII, I, 131 | any more entitled to that denomination than the former. The idea
618 XI, 0, 116 | admonish you, that you have departed from the method of reasoning,
619 XII, I, 126 | are not implicitly to be depended on; but that we must correct
620 XII, I, 131 | extension which is wholly dependent on the sensible ideas or
621 XI, 0, 117 | consequently our conduct and deportment in life is still the same.
622 VIII, II, 76 | be used as a proof of the depravity of the other.~ Men are not
623 I, 0, 5 | would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.~ Besides, we
624 IX, 0, 83 | earth, stones, heights, depths, &c., and of the effects
625 X, II, 103 | contented, in general, to deride its absurdity, without informing
626 X, II, 105 | more properly a subject of derision than of argument.~ There
627 V, II, 44 | proceeds not from reason. It derives its origin altogether from
628 XII, I, 125 | which is much inculcated by Des Cartes and others, as a
629 VII, I, 57(*) | a little extraordinary. Descartes insinuated that doctrine
630 VII, I, 54 | of nature - such as the descent of heavy bodies, the growth
631 I, 0, 5 | requisite to those, who would describe with success the obvious
632 VIII, I, 65 | observation than the men described by Polybius and Tacitus
633 VIII, I, 71 | assertion, by defining or describing that necessity, and pointing
634 X, II, 102 | travellers received, their descriptions of sea and land monsters,
635 I, 0, 9 | conclusion, surely, is not desirable; nor ought it to be embraced
636 VII, I, 52 | through a long succession, the desired event is produced. But if
637 I, 0, 7 | why philosophers should desist from such researches, and
638 X, II, 105 | after the Flavian family was despoiled of the empire, and could
639 I, 0, 4 | flourish, than to be entirely destitute of all relish for those
640 I, 0, 10 | avoiding of all unnecessary detail, we have, in the following
641 X, II, 106 | mention the difficulty of detecting a falsehood in any private
642 V, I, 35 | some other principle which determines him to form such a conclusion.~
643 VIII, II, 80 | chiefly such as tend to public detriment and disturbance: Whence
644 VII, I, 54(*) | Theos apo mechanes (deus ex machina).
645 V, II, 43 | the best reliques, which a devotee could procure, would be
646 V, II, 41 | of the same nature. The devotees of that superstition usually
647 X, II, 105 | that had ever paid his devotions at that church. He had been
648 XII, II, 133 | as you may increase the diameter of the circle in infinitum,
649 V, II, 42(*) | Naturane nobis, inquit, datum dicam, an errore quodam, ut, cum
650 V, II, 42(*) | curiam nostram, Hostiliam dico, non hanc novam, quae mihi
651 X, II, 108 | January 1600, Queen Elizabeth died; that both before and after
652 V, II, 39 | but still it feels very differently from that conception by
653 VIII, I, 65 | experience, however accurately digested by reflection, would ever
654 V, II, 42(*) | videamus, in quibus memoria dignos viros acceperimus multum
655 IV, II, 28 | bring them to some dangerous dilemma. The best expedient to prevent
656 IV, I, 27 | law, by giving us the just dimensions of all the parts and figures
657 VIII, II, 80 | vexation for the loss anywise diminished by these sublime reflections?
658 II, 0, 13 | transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us
659 VIII, I, 68 | the toothache, or has not dined. A stupid fellow discovers
660 VII, I, 50 | certainty concerning it, by mere dint of thought and reasoning.~
661 XI, 0, 111(*)| 3) Lucian and Dio.~
662 VIII, I, 67 | well as the politician, who directs the conduct of sensible
663 XI, 0, 123 | And, those, who attempt to disabuse them of such prejudices,
664 I, 0, 10 | recommendation, but rather a disadvantage to them, and as this difficulty
665 VII, I, 48 | light, their advantages and disadvantages nearly compensate each other,
666 X, I, 95 | passing from them to their disciples; nor can any one rest such
667 V, II, 42(*) | his memoriae deducta sit disciplina."~ Cicero, De finibus, Book
668 XII, I, 130 | external object. Do you disclaim this principle, in order
669 I, 0, 7 | stimulated, rather that discouraged, by the failures of his
670 IV, I, 21 | will not, I presume, be a discouragement, but rather an incitement,
671 VIII, I, 72 | the will. Let them first discuss a more simple question,
672 VIII, I, 62 | true, if men attempt the discussion of questions which lie entirely
673 II, 0, 11 | the mind be disordered by disease or madness, they never can
674 XII, I, 128 | dreams, madness, and other diseases. And nothing can be more
675 II, 0, 17 | metaphysical reasonings, and drawn disgrace upon them. All ideas, especially
676 X, II, 109 | those dangerous friends or disguised enemies to the Christian
677 VIII, I, 65 | authority, that perfect disinterestedness, so often pretended to,
678 X, II, 103 | whole frame of nature is disjointed, and every element performs
679 VII, I, 53 | on all sides, and at last dismiss it for some other idea,
680 II, 0, 11 | But, except the mind be disordered by disease or madness, they
681 V, I, 34 | because it strikes in with no disorderly passion of the human mind,
682 II, 0, 11 | conception for the real disorders and agitations of the passion.
683 XI, 0, 113 | reasoning with calm and dispassionate enquirers. Your deliberations,
684 X, II, 105 | of them was published and dispersed every where; nor were the
685 XII, II, 137 | audience. A Stoic or Epicurean displays principles, which may not
686 V, II, 43 | because they were once at his disposal, and were moved and affected
687 X, II, 105 | to be able accurately to disprove the testimony, and to trace
688 V, II, 42(*) | quem accepimus primum hic disputare solitum: cuius etiam illi
689 XI, 0, 111 | more than of argument or disputation. After the first alarm,
690 VIII, I, 71 | upon reflection, that they dissent from it in words only, not
691 I, 0, 3 | vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and
692 X, II, 108 | The decay, corruption, and dissolution of nature, is an event rendered
693 XII, I, 126 | according to their different distances; the double images which
694 IV, I, 21 | with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable
695 IX, 0, 83 | the young are here plainly distinguishable from the cunning and sagacity
696 I, 0, 8 | This talk of ordering and distinguishing, which has no merit, when
697 VIII, I, 65 | in various degrees, and distributed through society, have been,
698 XI, 0, 122 | goodness: a more impartial distribution of rewards and punishments
699 VIII, II, 80 | to public detriment and disturbance: Whence it may reasonably
700 XII, I, 131 | attention, were it requisite to dive so deep, in order to discover
701 VIII, I, 66 | of the same person much diversified in the different periods
702 XI, 0, 113 | of the commonwealth, are diverted to the disquisitions of
703 VIII, I, 65 | men, who were entirely divested of avarice, ambition, or
704 VI, 0, 45(*) | Mr. Locke divides all arguments into demonstrative
705 V, II, 39 | compounding, separating, and dividing these ideas, in all the
706 XII, I, 125 | provokes the indignation of all divines and graver philosophers;
707 XII, II, 133 | doctrine of the infinitive divisibility of extension, with its consequences;
708 IV, II, 30 | existence, according to the division above mentioned. But that
709 IX, 0, 83 | experience which renders a dog apprehensive of pain, when
710 | done
711 X, II, 105 | served seven years as a doorkeeper, and was well known to every
712 IX, 0, 83 | to meet the hare in her doubles; nor are the conjectures,
713 X, II, 108 | philosophers, instead of doubting the fact, ought to receive
714 IV, I, 25 | can beget the idea of a downward, rather than an upward,
715 XI, 0, 115 | cause; and then descend downwards, to infer any new effect
716 V, I, 36 | Tiberius or a Nero makes us dread a like tyranny, were our
717 XII, II, 137 | When he awakes from his dream, he will be the first to
718 XII, II, 134 | scepticism, to which she is driven by these seeming absurdities
719 XII, II, 134(*)| It is sufficient to have dropped this hint at present, without
720 V, I, 34 | bustle of the world, and drudgery of business, seeks a pretence
721 V, II, 44 | When I throw a piece of dry wood into a fire, my mind
722 V, I, 36 | immediately applied with due calmness and distinction.
723 II, 0, 11 | it employs are faint and dull, in comparison of those
724 II, 0, 11 | is still inferior to the dullest sensation.~ We may observe
725 VIII, I, 67 | by reason of a grain of dust, which puts a stop to the
726 VIII, II, 79 | security; but neither can they dwell with constancy on his mind,
727 XI, 0, 111(*)| Lucian, sump. e Lapithai [The Banquet, or
728 V, II, 42(*) | an errore quodam, ut, cum ea loca videamus, in quibus
729 VIII, I, 62 | and disputed with great eagerness, since the first origin
730 XI, 0, 117 | existence, for which you so earnestly contend, you may safely
731 VIII, I, 70 | tumble my house about my ears. I shall therefore change
732 VIII, I, 70 | frenzy.- So may a sudden earthquake arise, and shake and tumble
733 VII, I, 54 | extraordinary phaenomena, such as earthquakes, pestilence, and prodigies
734 XII, II, 133 | in infinitum; this is an edifice so bold and prodigious,
735 IV, I, 26 | confessed, that the utmost effort of human reason is to reduce
736 I, 0, 6 | either from the fruitless efforts of human vanity, which would
737 IV, II, 31 | otherwise. Nothing so like as eggs; yet no one, on account
738 V, II, 42(*) | scriptum aliquod legamus? Velut ego nunc moveor. Venit enim
739 X, II, 108 | over the whole earth for eight days: suppose that the tradition
740 V, II, 42(*) | Speusippus, hic Xenocrates, hic eius auditor Polemo; cuius ipsa
741 IV, I, 26 | human curiosity and enquiry. Elasticity, gravity, cohesion of parts,
742 X, I, 95 | which is as concise, and elegant, and strong as any argument
743 X, II, 103 | is disjointed, and every element performs its operations
744 XI, 0, 122 | embraced as reasonable and eligible. But, besides that the ordinary
745 X, II, 108 | first of January 1600, Queen Elizabeth died; that both before and
746 VII, I, 48 | nor an hyperbola for an ellipsis. The isosceles and scalenum
747 IV, I, 26 | spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.~
748 VII, I, 52 | This question would never embarrass us, were we conscious of
749 XII, I, 128 | finds herself extremely embarrassed, when she would justify
750 XII, III, 139 | more sublime topics to the embellishment of poets and orators, or
751 VIII, II, 81 | and whatever system she embraces, she must find herself involved
752 XI, 0, 111 | wisest of all the Roman emperors, *(3) to the professors
753 XII, II, 135 | scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of
754 VII, I, 52 | grossest matter? Were we empowered, by a secret wish, to remove
755 V, I, 34 | our thoughts towards the empty and transitory nature of
756 IV, II, 29 | required a medium, which may enable the mind to draw such an
757 XII, III, 141 | of cause and effect, and enables us to infer the existence
758 XI, 0, 115 | You afterwards become so enamoured of this offspring of your
759 V, II, 40 | my mind than ideas of an enchanted castle. They are very different
760 I, 0, 9 | cultivated with care, and encouraged by the attention of the
761 XI, 0, 111 | religion: And the public encouragement*(2) of pensions and salaries
762 VI, 0, 46 | according as this superiority encreases, and surpasses the opposite
763 XII, III, 141 | reason concerning it, and endeavor to fix its standard, we
764 I, 0, 4 | which they introduce, by the endless uncertainty in which they
765 IV, II, 29 | qualities was, at that time, endued with such secret powers:
766 X, II, 109 | by no means, fitted to endure. To make this more evident,
767 X, I, 95 | useful as long as the world endures. For so long, I presume,
768 V, II, 40 | appear of greater importance; enforces them in the mind; and renders
769 VIII, I, 65 | actions of the French and English: You cannot be much mistaken
770 V, II, 42(*) | Velut ego nunc moveor. Venit enim mihi Plato in mentem, quem
771 X, II, 105 | the god Serapis, who had enjoined them to have recourse to
772 X, II, 103 | as we advance nearer the enlightened ages, we soon learn, that
773 X, II, 103 | ignorant Paphlagonians, to the enlisting of votaries, even among
774 V, II, 43 | types or images, in order to enliven their devotion, and give
775 V, I, 36(*) | which inform us of the enormous abuses, that ambition, in
776 XII, III, 141 | whole species of objects are enquired into.~ Divinity or Theology,
777 XII, I, 132 | to convince an impartial enquirer. The second objection goes
778 VIII, I, 69 | protection of the magistrate, to ensure him the enjoyment of the
779 X, II, 106 | convert of himself, and entered seriously into the delusion
780 VIII, I, 65 | source of all the actions and enterprises, which have ever been observed
781 I, 0, 9 | requisite than to enter upon the enterprize with thorough care and attention;
782 I, 0, 4 | instructive, and retirement entertaining.~ Man is a reasonable being;
783 XI, 0, 123 | indulgence. There is no enthusiasm among philosophers; their
784 X, II, 102 | A religionist may be an enthusiast, and imagine he sees what
785 VIII, II, 79 | wise agent, without giving entrance to greater ill, or excluding
786 III, 0, 19 | philosopher has attempted to enumerate or class all the principles
787 IV, II, 30 | more difficult task; and enumerating all the branches of human
788 V, II, 42(*) | moveamur, quam siquando eorum ipsorum aut facta audiamus
789 V, I, 34 | philosophy like that of Epictetus, and other Stoics, only
790 XII, II, 137 | his audience. A Stoic or Epicurean displays principles, which
791 XI, 0, 111 | peace and tranquillity: Epicureans* were even admitted to receive
792 V, II, 42(*) | sessio fuit, quam videmus. Equidem etiam curiam nostram, Hostiliam
793 XI, 0, 122 | greater regard to justice and equity. Every supposed addition
794 II, 0, 17(*) | by innate? If innate be equivalent to natural, then all the
795 VII, I, 55 | command that motion which we erroneously attribute to our own power
796 V, II, 42(*) | inquit, datum dicam, an errore quodam, ut, cum ea loca
797 XII, III, 139 | of nature, from, and to eternity?~ This narrow limitation,
798 VII, I, 57(*) | philosopher had recourse to an etherial active fluid to explain
799 XI, 0, 111(*)| 2) Lucian, eunouchos [The Eunuch].~
800 XI, 0, 111(*)| Lucian, eunouchos [The Eunuch].~
801 VI, 0, 47 | almost every country of Europe, that there will be frost
802 VII, I, 53 | the morning than in the evening: Fasting, than after a full
803 X, I, 95 | wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious
804 | everyone
805 VIII, II, 78 | between them be necessary and evitable.~ This objection consists
806 XI, 0, 115 | call in the assistance of exaggeration and flattery to supply the
807 I, 0, 5 | sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating
808 I, 0, 1 | precepts and most illustrious examples. They make us feel the difference
809 XII, I, 131(*)| philosophers, Bayle not excepted. He professes, however,
810 VIII, I, 67 | any known motives, and are exceptions to all the measures of conduct
811 VII, I, 55 | omnipotent Maker, which excites such a sensation, in consequence
812 XII, III, 141(*)| the creation of matter was excluded, ceases to be a maxim, according
813 VIII, II, 79 | entrance to greater ill, or excluding greater good, which will
814 VIII, I, 74 | attempts a definition of cause, exclusive of these circumstances,
815 V, II, 41 | superstition usually plead in excuse for the mummeries, with
816 XI, 0, 116 | deities have executed, or will execute, any purpose beyond what
817 XI, 0, 116 | that their deities have executed, or will execute, any purpose
818 VIII, I, 69 | of his servants for the execution of any work as much as upon
819 VIII, I, 70 | escape; the action of the executioner; the separation of the head
820 V, II, 43 | strong conception of those exemplary lives, which they desire
821 I, 0, 6 | florid health, require severe exercise, and reap a pleasure from
822 VII, I, 51 | on the command which is exercised by will, both over the organs
823 XII, II, 134 | passing in succession, and exhausted one after another, appears
824 I, 0, 4 | precepts, applicable to every exigence of human life. By means
825 V, II, 40 | paint them out to myself as existing at present, with the same
826 I, 0, 9 | that they are excusable in expecting to find some general principles,
827 IV, II, 28 | dangerous dilemma. The best expedient to prevent this confusion,
828 X, II, 103 | the success of a military expedition to his delusive prophecies.~
829 V, I, 36 | even the only one which explains the difficulty, why we draw,
830 VIII, I, 65 | prodigies. And if we would explode any forgery in history,
831 IV, I, 24 | any man imagine that the explosion of gunpowder, or the attraction
832 V, I, 34 | innocent is what chiefly exposes it to the public hatred
833 X, II, 109 | and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial
834 X, II, 104 | those which have not been expressly detected, that is not opposed
835 XII, III, 141 | may, for aught we know, extinguish the sun; or the wish of
836 X, I, 99 | fire consumes wood, and is extinguished by water; unless it be,
837 V, II, 44 | conceive, that it augments, not extinguishes the flame. This transition
838 X, II, 103 | can never be thoroughly extirpated from human nature.~ It is
839 V, I, 34 | correction of our manners, and extirpation of our vices, it may only
840 II, 0, 60 | is drawn from something extraneous and foreign to it. Similar
841 VII, I, 48 | moral ideas are apt, without extreme care, to fall into obscurity
842 IX, 0, 89 | circumstances, which are foreign and extrinsic. The separation of it often
843 V, I, 37 | another, till we arrive at the eyewitnesses and spectators of these
844 X, II, 108 | appetite for falsehood and fable." *~
845 X, II, 109 | testimony, and resembling those fabulous accounts, which every nation
846 X, II, 105 | falsehood upon the very face of it, and that a miracle,
847 V, II, 42(*) | siquando eorum ipsorum aut facta audiamus aut scriptum aliquod
848 VIII, I, 67 | as makes the latter often fail of their usual influence;
849 VI, 0, 47 | ever yet been found of any failure or irregularity in their
850 I, 0, 7 | that discouraged, by the failures of his predecessors; while
851 VII, I, 57 | experience. We are got into fairy land, long ere we have reached
852 II, 0, 11 | affections, our thought is a faithful mirror, and copies its objects
853 XII, I, 125 | a Deity, and refute the fallacies of Atheists; and yet the
854 XI, 0, 117 | events; I here find the same fallacy, which I have before endeavoured
855 XII, I, 128 | system, which is acknowledged fallible and even erroneous. And
856 V, II, 43 | all past intimacies and familiarities, in more lively colours
857 X, II, 103 | revolutions, pestilence, famine and death, are never the
858 VII, I, 57 | may be assured that this fancied experience has no authority
859 VIII, I, 72(*)| We consider not, that the fantastical desire of shewing liberty,
860 V, II, 40 | possessed. These ideas take faster hold of my mind than ideas
861 VII, I, 53 | morning than in the evening: Fasting, than after a full meal.
862 VII, I, 57 | Our line is too short to fathom such immense abysses. And
863 I, 0, 7 | We must submit to this fatigue, in order to live at ease
864 XI, 0, 117 | vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world.
865 X, II, 109 | choice of one people, as the favourites of heaven; and that people
866 X, II, 106 | faith to every report which favours the passion of the reporter;
867 V, I, 34 | irreligious.~ Nor need we fear that this philosophy, while
868 I, 0, 6 | overwhelm it with religious fears and prejudices. The stoutest
869 II, 0, 13 | language, all our ideas or more feeble perceptions are copies of
870 V, II, 39 | fiction and vision. It can feign a train of events, with
871 IV, II, 29 | precise period of time, which fell under its cognizance: but
872 VIII, I, 68 | has not dined. A stupid fellow discovers an uncommon alacrity
873 V, II, 41 | devotion and quickening their fervour, which otherwise would decay,
874 VII, I, 48 | to the conclusion, much fewer than in the sciences which
875 VII, I, 53 | idea, and with a kind of Fiat, imitates the omnipotence
876 V, II, 40 | possible. It may conceive fictitious objects with all the circumstances
877 VIII, I, 70 | certainly from the constancy and fidelity of his guards, as from the
878 X, I, 96 | experiments on one side, and fifty on another, afford a doubtful
879 XI, 0, 112 | such an harangue as will fill all the urn with white beans,
880 V, II, 44 | discovery and contemplation of final causes, have here ample
881 VII, I, 52 | influence over the tongue and fingers, not over the heart or liver?
882 V, II, 42(*) | disciplina."~ Cicero, De finibus, Book V.
883 VIII, II, 78 | author. For as a man, who fired a mine, is answerable for
884 VI, 0, 46 | belief is nothing but a firmer and stronger conception
885 V, I, 34 | aspire to the magnanimous firmness of the philosophic sage,
886 IX, 0, 82 | creature, as a frog, or fish, it forms a strong presumption,
887 IV, I, 20 | figures. That three times five is equal to the half of
888 XII, III, 141 | No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing
889 X, II, 105 | their testimony, after the Flavian family was despoiled of
890 X, II, 105 | that intriguing politician fled into Spain, to avoid the
891 XII, I, 127 | perceptions in the mind, and fleeting copies or representations
892 XII, II, 137 | event in life will put to flight all his doubts and scruples,
893 V, II, 44 | and lively than any loose, floating reverie of the imagination.
894 I, 0, 6 | endowed with vigorous and florid health, require severe exercise,
895 X, II, 103 | lies, which have spread and flourished to such a monstrous height,
896 II, 0, 61 | to reach, and reserve the flowers of rhetoric for subjects
897 IV, I, 23 | not have inferred from the fluidity and transparency of water
898 X, II, 106 | altercations and debate and flying rumours; especially when
899 V, I, 34 | opposing so many vices and follies, it raises to itself abundance
900 VII, I, 57(*) | energy; though some of his followers have endeavoured to establish
901 XI, 0, 115 | attributes, which you so fondly ascribe to your deities.~
902 IV, II, 31 | objects. And though none but a fool or madman will ever pretend
903 X, II, 103 | a hundred circumstances. Fools are industrious in propagating
904 III, 0, 19 | a wound, we can scarcely forbear reflecting on the pain which
905 VIII, II, 75 | therefore, ought entirely to be forborne; as serving nothing to the
906 XI, 0, 113 | with the tradition of your forefathers, and doctrine of your priests (
907 VIII, II, 78 | place in our Creator. He foresaw, he ordained, he intended
908 VIII, I, 70 | conducted to the scaffold, foresees his death as certainly from
909 I, 0, 6 | these robbers fly into the forest, and lie in wait to break
910 XI, 0, 114 | must have been project and forethought in the workman. If you cannot
911 XI, 0, 122 | hypothesis; no event foreseen or foretold; no reward or punishment
912 X, II, 102 | The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies,
913 VIII, I, 65 | if we would explode any forgery in history, we cannot make
914 XI, 0, 115 | of ill and disorder. You forget, that this superlative intelligence
915 XI, 0, 116 | beings as the gods, and forgetting that they have no reason
916 VII, I, 53 | so to speak, who called forth into existence all the various
917 VI, 0, 47 | concur in one event, they fortify and confirm it to the imagination,
918 XI, 0, 113 | intelligence could proceed from the fortuitous concourse of atoms, or if
919 V, I, 34 | imprudent management. to foster a predominant inclination,
920 VI, 0, 46 | figure or number of spots on four sides, and with another
921 X, II, 104 | 95. I may add as a fourth reason, which diminishes
922 VIII, II, 75 | any advantage from it. I frankly submit to an examination
923 X, II, 106 | scruples to make use of pious frauds, in support of so holy and
924 XII, I, 131(*)| against the atheists and free-thinkers. But that all his arguments,
925 V, I, 36 | tyranny, were our monarchs freed from the restraints of laws
926 I, 0, 7 | alone. The only method of freeing learning, at once, from
927 XI, 0, 118 | satisfied: all this will freely be allowed. But still this
928 III, 0, 18 | other. Were the loosest and freest conversation to be transcribed,
929 X, I, 98(*) | experience that water did not freeze in cold climates. This is
930 VIII, I, 65 | temper and actions of the French and English: You cannot
931 II, 0, 17(*) | the dispute seems to be frivolous; nor is it worth while to
932 IX, 0, 82 | place in one creature, as a frog, or fish, it forms a strong
933 VIII, I, 69 | him the enjoyment of the fruits of his labour. He also expects
934 V, II, 42(*) | cuius ipsa illa sessio fuit, quam videmus. Equidem etiam
935 XI, 0, 116 | nature, which may serve as a fuller display of particular attributes;
936 VIII, II, 76 | punishments, it is supposed as a fundamental principle, that these motives
937 VIII, I, 65 | circumstances and situations, and furnishing us with materials from which
938 V, II, 43 | and if his cloaths and furniture are ever to be considered
939 XII, III, 141 | that Caesar, or the angel Gabriel, or any being never existed,
940 V, I, 34 | no irregular passion, it gains few partizans: By opposing
941 VIII, I, 70 | considers the obstinacy of the gaoler, as the walls and bars with
942 XI, 0, 117 | rather, which I examine in my gardens? Or what do you find in
943 I, 0, 6 | cowardice and folly, open the gates to the enemies, and willingly
944 X, II, 106 | genus auricularum, * the gazing populace, receive greedily,
945 VII, I, 54 | the growth of plants, the generation of animals, or the nourishment
946 I, 0, 7 | improved sagacity of succeeding generations may reach discoveries unknown
947 V, II, 41 | attention towards it, by a gentle and insensible movement.
948 XII, II, 133 | pompously displayed by all geometricians and metaphysicians, with
949 VIII, I, 65 | actions, expressions, and even gestures; and again descend to the
950 XII, I, 125 | the world of dragons and giants, never entertained the least
951 V, II, 44 | more strongly, than when a glass of wine is presented to
952 VI, 0, 46 | of these several views or glimpses imprints the idea more strongly
953 IV, II, 30 | existence, must be evidently going in a circle, and taking
954 V, II, 44 | conceptions have still, we find, gone on in the same train with
955 X, II, 101 | men, of such unquestioned good-sense, education, and learning,
956 VII, I, 57 | life and experience. We are got into fairy land, long ere
957 VIII, II, 79 | the racking pains of the gout by preaching up to him the
958 VIII, I, 65 | Tacitus are to those who now govern the world.~ Should a traveller,
959 V, II, 40 | mind; and renders them the governing principle of our actions.
960 I, 0, 5 | The stability of modern governments above the ancient, and the
961 XI, 0, 117 | providence, you say, and supreme governor of the world, who guides
962 XI, 0, 118 | piece, and give it more grace and propriety? Whence, do
963 I, 0, 5 | gives his figures the most graceful and engaging airs; he must
964 II, 0, 16 | possible, by the continual gradation of shades, to run a colour
965 I, 0, 5 | still improve, by similar gradations.~
966 VIII, I, 67 | perhaps by reason of a grain of dust, which puts a stop
967 XII, II, 133 | ratiocination; yet is this the grand scope of all their enquiries
968 VII, I, 56 | instead of magnifying, the grandeur of those attributes, which
969 XI, 0, 122(*)| the difficulty. For even granting this to be the case (which
970 VIII, I, 62 | distance, and hinder them from grappling with each other.~
971 I, 0, 6 | these studies, beyond the gratification of an innocent curiosity,
972 XI, 0, 112 | leave not a black one to gratify the malice of my adversaries.~
973 XII, I, 125 | indignation of all divines and graver philosophers; though it
974 X, II, 106 | gazing populace, receive greedily, without examination, whatever
975 X, II, 102 | admiration of others.~ With what greediness are the miraculous accounts
976 VIII, I, 65 | and course of life of the Greeks and Romans? Study well the
977 IX, 0, 83 | force and ability. An old greyhound will trust the more fatiguing
978 V, I, 34 | be the subject of so much groundless reproach and obloquy. But,
979 X, II, 103 | them. But as the former grow thinner every page, in proportion
980 VII, I, 54 | descent of heavy bodies, the growth of plants, the generation
981 VIII, I, 70 | constancy and fidelity of his guards, as from the operation of
982 IV, I, 24 | imagine that the explosion of gunpowder, or the attraction of a
983 IX, 0, 85 | By means of this general habitual principle, we regard even
984 XI, 0, 120 | you saw, for instance, a half-finished building, surrounded with
985 V, II, 42(*) | nostram, Hostiliam dico, non hanc novam, quae mihi minor esse
986 VIII, II, 81 | reason is very unfit to handle; and whatever system she
987 VIII, I, 67 | uniformity. An artificer, who handles only dead matter, may be
988 V, II, 43 | could procure, would be the handywork of a saint; and if his cloaths
989 IX, 0, 92 | education, passion, party, &c. hang more upon one mind than
990 I, 0, 9 | arose, who seems, from the happiest reasoning, to have also
991 VII, I, 54 | its usual attendant, and hardly conceive it possible that
992 X, I, 98(*) | utmost liquidity to perfect hardness. Such an event, therefore,
993 XI, 0, 111 | she may be supposed more hardy and robust, she bears with
994 IX, 0, 83 | himself so as to meet the hare in her doubles; nor are
995 VIII, II, 75 | hope the word can do no harm: Or that he will maintain
996 XI, 0, 111 | of the seasons, and those harsh winds of calumny and persecution,
997 IX, 0, 90 | nothing is more usual, from haste or a narrowness of mind,
998 II, 0, 58 | 58. But to hasten to a conclusion of this
999 VIII, II, 76 | actions as they perform hastily and unpremeditately than
1000 II, 0, 12 | see, or feel, or love, or hate, or desire, or will. And