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1001 V, I, 34 | natural indolence, which, hating the bustle of the world,
1002 XII, III, 138 | their natural temper, to haughtiness and obstinacy, a small tincture
1003 XII, III, 141 | of these principles, what havoc must we make? If we take
1004 I, 0, 8 | them under their proper heads, and to correct all that
1005 X, I, 99(*) | sick person to be well, a healthful man to fall down dead, the
1006 XI, 0, 120 | building, surrounded with heaps of brick and stone and mortar,
1007 X, II, 102 | captivates the willing hearers, and subdues their understanding.
1008 I, 0, 1 | so they can but bend our hearts to the love of probity and
1009 I, 0, 9 | order, and magnitude of the heavenly bodies: Till a philosopher,
1010 VII, I, 54 | such as the descent of heavy bodies, the growth of plants,
1011 I, 0, 5 | delineating even a Venus or an Helen. While the latter employs
1012 X, II, 106 | character? Or if, by the help of vanity and a heated imagination,
1013 I, 0, 1 | amiable colours; borrowing all helps from poetry and eloquence,
1014 X, II, 106 | the miracles related by Herodotus or Plutarch, and those delivered
1015 VIII, I, 67 | and principles, which are hid, by reason of their minuteness
1016 I, 0, 2 | if they can discover some hidden truths, which may contribute
1017 I, 0, 5 | presents to the eye the most hideous and disagreeable objects;
1018 VIII, I, 62 | still at a distance, and hinder them from grappling with
1019 VI, 0, 47 | sufficient, if the present hints excite the curiosity of
1020 VIII, I, 65 | examined by Aristotle, and Hippocrates, more like to those which
1021 V, II, 39 | circumstance, that belongs to any historical fact, which it believes
1022 II, 0, 61 | which, if we can happily hit, we shall go farther towards
1023 XI, 0, 113 | 104. I come hither, O ye Athenians, to justify
1024 XI, 0, 114 | authority.~ The same rule holds, whether the cause assigned
1025 VIII, I, 70 | a man, whom I know to be honest and opulent, and with whom
1026 V, I, 34 | transitory nature of riches and honours, we are, perhaps, all the
1027 VIII, II, 76 | having committed the most horrid crime, as at the first moment
1028 V, II, 42(*) | solitum: cuius etiam illi hortuli propinqui non memoriam solum
1029 V, II, 42(*) | Equidem etiam curiam nostram, Hostiliam dico, non hanc novam, quae
1030 XII, I, 131 | objects, such as hard, soft, hot, cold, white, black, &c.
1031 VIII, I, 70 | will find it untouched an hour after. Above one half of
1032 I, 0, 5 | subserviency to the easy and humane; which, without the former,
1033 IV, II, 28 | still carry on our sifting humour, and ask, What is the foundation
1034 VIII, II, 79 | which produced the malignant humours in his body, and led them
1035 VIII, I, 65 | Alexander, by which he was hurried on singly to attack multitudes,
1036 IX, 0, 83 | observation, to avoid what hurt them, and to pursue what
1037 VIII, I, 65 | purpose. Why is the aged husband-man more skilful in his calling
1038 VII, I, 48 | mistaken for a circle, nor an hyperbola for an ellipsis. The isosceles
1039 IV, I, 27 | the effect of heat, and ice of cold, without being previously
1040 X, II, 105 | evidence of that exploded and idolatrous superstition. The gravity,
1041 VIII, II, 76 | actions as they perform ignorantly and casually, whatever may
1042 V, II, 42(*) | auditor Polemo; cuius ipsa illa sessio fuit, quam videmus.
1043 V, II, 42(*) | disputare solitum: cuius etiam illi hortuli propinqui non memoriam
1044 I, 0, 4 | deemed a surer sign of an illiberal genius in an age and nation
1045 VIII, II, 79 | their pupils that those ills under which they laboured
1046 XII, II, 133 | sees a full light, which illuminates certain places; but that
1047 I, 0, 4 | himself from any dangerous illusions. The fame of Cicero flourishes
1048 II, 0, 61 | shall go farther towards illustrating the subject than by all
1049 II, 0, 61 | to return to this obvious illustration) is exactly similar to any
1050 I, 0, 1 | soundest precepts and most illustrious examples. They make us feel
1051 X, I, 99 | experience can possibly be imagined. Why is it more than probable,
1052 XI, 0, 117 | to detect. You persist in imagining, that, if we grant that
1053 XII, I, 125 | prejudices, which we may have imbibed from education or rash opinion.
1054 V, II, 43 | lives, which they desire to imitate. Now it is evident, that
1055 V, II, 41 | entirely to distant and immaterial objects. We shadow out the
1056 XII, III, 141 | existence of a Deity, and the immortality of souls, is composed partly
1057 XII, I, 125 | by preserving a proper impartiality in our judgements, and weaning
1058 XII, III, 138 | action. They are, therefore, impatient till they escape from a
1059 XI, 0, 113 | school, and I find myself impeached by furious antagonists,
1060 VIII, I, 67 | though they meet with no impediment in their operation. But
1061 VII, I, 57(*) | as much motion from the impelling body as it acquires itself.
1062 I, 0, 7 | renders it in a manner impenetrable to careless reasoners, and
1063 VIII, II, 78 | creature as man; but those imperfections have no place in our Creator.
1064 X, I, 95 | and free us from their impertinent solicitations. I flatter
1065 V, II, 45 | are actuated; so has she implanted in us an instinct, which
1066 IV, I, 21 | curiosity, and destroying that implicit faith and security, which
1067 XII, I, 126 | the senses alone are not implicitly to be depended on; but that
1068 IV, I, 21 | in the prosecution of so important an enquiry, may be the more
1069 VIII, II, 78 | and powerful. Ignorance or importence may be pleaded for so limited
1070 II, 0, 60 | relation among objects which it imports to us to know perfectly,
1071 X, II, 108 | ages, have been so much imposed on by ridiculous stories
1072 X, II, 103 | distinctly refuted. And thus the impostor above mentioned was enabled
1073 VII, I, 55 | second our will, in itself impotent, and to command that motion
1074 VIII, I, 74 | this must be absolutely impracticable. Had not objects a regular
1075 VIII, I, 66 | characters which nature has impressed upon the sexes, and which
1076 VI, 0, 46 | several views or glimpses imprints the idea more strongly on
1077 XI, 0, 120 | receive all the further improvements, which art could bestow
1078 X, II, 105 | lies under the contrary imputation, of atheism and profaneness:
1079 IV, I, 24 | be conscious of the utter inability, which we then lay under,
1080 I, 0, 6 | penetrate into subjects utterly inaccessible to the understanding, or
1081 I, 0, 4 | draw too much, so as to incapacitate them for other occupations
1082 V, I, 36 | application. In every situation or incident, there are many particular
1083 IV, I, 21 | discouragement, but rather an incitement, as is usual, to attempt
1084 XI, 0, 111 | with much difficulty the inclemency of the seasons, and those
1085 X, I, 96 | experiments: to that side he inclines, with doubt and hesitation;
1086 VIII, II, 80 | against the crime be supposed incompatible with them? Or why should
1087 VII, I, 52 | natural events, is unknown and inconceivable. *~
1088 II, 0, 13 | form monsters, and join incongruous shapes and appearances,
1089 VIII, I, 68 | continued course of caprice and inconstancy. The internal principles
1090 VIII, I, 68 | are, to a certain degree, inconstant and irregular. This is,
1091 X, II, 102 | operations. Their credulity increases his impudence: and his impudence
1092 X, I, 98 | philosophical patriot. * The incredibility of a fact, it was allowed,
1093 X, II, 102 | fact which is unusual and incredible in an ordinary degree; yet
1094 X, II, 105 | supposed prodigy, of an incredulous and libertine character,
1095 IX, 0, 94 | such exactness, the art of incubation, and the whole economy and
1096 XII, I, 125 | philosophy, which is much inculcated by Des Cartes and others,
1097 V, I, 36 | the danger which we must incur by reposing an entire confidence
1098 XII, I, 125 | is not) would be entirely incurable; and no reasoning could
1099 VIII, II, 77 | so far only as they are indications of the internal character,
1100 XI, 0, 113 | that they are entirely indifferent to the peace of society
1101 XII, I, 125 | who naturally provokes the indignation of all divines and graver
1102 X, II, 104 | same force, though more indirectly, to overthrow every other
1103 VIII, I, 65 | leaders; and scarcely even in individuals of any rank or station.
1104 XII, II, 133(*)| or senses, are absolutely indivisible, and consequently must be
1105 VIII, I, 65 | circumstances, could ever induce him to such a conduct. The
1106 XI, 0, 116 | subjects, every one should be indulged in the liberty of conjecture
1107 X, II, 103 | circumstances. Fools are industrious in propagating the imposture;
1108 VIII, II, 79 | found in practice weak and ineffectual. You would surely more irritate
1109 XII, III, 140 | mediums, their equality or inequality, through their different
1110 VII, I, 57(*) | to have any idea of the inert power; in the same manner
1111 IX, 0, 83 | operation. The ignorance and inexperience of the young are here plainly
1112 VIII, II, 81 | find herself involved in inextricable difficulties, and even contradictions,
1113 II, 0, 59 | in the one, by which it infallibly produces the other, and
1114 IV, II, 33 | to the capacity of a mere infant. If you hesitate, therefore,
1115 IV, II, 33 | and stupid peasants - nay infants, nay even brute beasts -
1116 VIII, II, 76 | operates only by intervals, and infects not the whole character.
1117 IX, 0, 84 | consequence in life, as that of inferring effects from causes, be
1118 XI, 0, 111 | the present age is so much infested. Epicurus lived at Athens
1119 XII, II, 133 | than the doctrine of the infinitive divisibility of extension,
1120 XII, III, 138 | sensible of the strange infirmities of human understanding,
1121 VIII, I, 70 | of the one, than upon the inflexible nature of the other. The
1122 XI, 0, 123 | suppose that the Deity will inflict punishments on vice, and
1123 I, 0, 1 | born for action; and as influenced in his measures by taste
1124 X, II, 102 | events, of which they are informed, yet love to partake of
1125 XI, 0, 112 | any of the sycophants or informers of those days, he could
1126 X, II, 103 | deride its absurdity, without informing themselves of the particular
1127 XI, 0, 123 | their passions, and make the infringement of the laws of society,
1128 XII, I, 131(*)| the writings of that very ingenious author form the best lessons
1129 II, 0, 17 | ideas not innate.~ To be ingenuous, I must own it to be my
1130 VIII, II, 76 | and when any criminal or injurious actions excite that passion,
1131 XII, I, 127 | the senses are only the inlets, through which these images
1132 I, 0, 6 | race. The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through
1133 VII, I, 55 | advancing still in their inquiries, discover that, as we are
1134 XI, 0, 117 | lies open to every one's inquiry and examination. I acknowledge,
1135 IV, II, 28 | they encounter persons of inquisitive dispositions, who push them
1136 V, II, 42(*) | Naturane nobis, inquit, datum dicam, an errore
1137 V, II, 41 | towards it, by a gentle and insensible movement. These principles
1138 II, 0, 16 | shades, to run a colour insensibly into what is most remote
1139 XI, 0, 120 | stand for the people, you insinuate yourself into my favour
1140 VII, I, 57(*) | extraordinary. Descartes insinuated that doctrine of the universal
1141 VII, I, 57(*) | mere hypothesis, not to be insisted on, without more experiments.
1142 X, II, 102 | those concerning marriages; insomuch that two young persons of
1143 VIII, I, 65 | and company, in order to instruct us in the principles of
1144 VII, I, 52 | follows another; without instructing us in the secret connexion,
1145 I, 0, 4 | science agreeable, company instructive, and retirement entertaining.~
1146 XI, 0, 120 | and mortar, and all the instruments of masonry; could you not
1147 I, 0, 6 | fair ground, raise these intangling brambles to cover and protect
1148 V, II, 40 | nothing but a conception more intense and steady than what attends
1149 XI, 0, 123 | mankind are more deeply interested and concerned.~
1150 X, II, 102 | telling a piece of news so interesting, of propagating it, and
1151 X, II, 105 | of a lie. Utrumque, qui interfuere, nunc quoque memorant, postquam
1152 X, II, 103 | natural events, that are intermingled with them. But as the former
1153 IV, II, 32 | Where is the medium, the interposing ideas, which join propositions
1154 X, I, 99(*) | of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent.
1155 VIII, I, 65 | and again descend to the interpretation of their actions from our
1156 X, II, 108 | parliament; and that, after being interred a month, she again appeared,
1157 V, II, 43 | to our thoughts all past intimacies and familiarities, in more
1158 XI, 0, 116 | abounds. The obstinate and intractable qualities of matter, we
1159 VIII, I, 65 | teach us to unravel all its intricacies. Pretexts and appearances
1160 VIII, I, 65 | These records of wars, intrigues, factions, and revolutions,
1161 X, II, 105 | consideration. When that intriguing politician fled into Spain,
1162 V, II, 42(*) | postquam est maior, solebam intuens, Scipionem, Catonem, Laelium,
1163 IV, I, 20 | affirmation which is either intuitively or demonstratively certain.
1164 XI, 0, 120 | rolling of the sands or inundation of the waters. Why then
1165 X, I, 98 | fact, it was allowed, might invalidate so great an authority.~The
1166 IV, I, 25 | this operation? It must invent or imagine some event, which
1167 XII, II, 133 | contradiction. No priestly dogmas, invented on purpose to tame and subdue
1168 IV, II, 33 | argument has escaped his own investigation, that therefore it does
1169 V, II, 42(*) | eius auditor Polemo; cuius ipsa illa sessio fuit, quam videmus.
1170 V, II, 42(*) | moveamur, quam siquando eorum ipsorum aut facta audiamus aut scriptum
1171 V, II, 42(*) | solum mihi afferunt, sed ipsum videntur in conspectu meo
1172 VIII, I, 68 | notwithstanding these seeming irregularities; in the same manner as the
1173 V, I, 34 | libertine, profane, and irreligious.~ Nor need we fear that
1174 XII, I, 128 | plead the infallible and irresistible instinct of nature: for
1175 XII, I, 131(*)| momentary amazement and irresolution and confusion, which is
1176 VIII, II, 79 | ineffectual. You would surely more irritate than appease a man lying
1177 VII, I, 57(*) | never the meaning of Sir Isaac Newton to rob second causes
1178 X, II, 102 | audience, every Capuchin, every itinerant or stationary teacher can
1179 IX | Sect. IX. Of the Reason of Animals~ ~
1180 X, II, 105 | of Abbe Paris, the famous Jansenist, with whose sanctity the
1181 XI, 0, 112 | magistrate can justly be jealous of certain tenets of philosophy,
1182 X, II, 105 | every where; nor were the Jesuits, though a learned body,
1183 X, II, 105 | proved upon the spot, before judges of unquestioned integrity,
1184 X, II, 106 | distance. Even a court of judicature, with all the authority,
1185 V, II, 39 | placed at any particular juncture. Whenever any object is
1186 X, II, 106 | smallest spark may here kindle into the greatest flame;
1187 VI, 0, 47 | certainty in the more northern kingdoms. Here then it seems evident,
1188 XII, I, 125 | these contradictions? The knights-errant, who wandered about to clear
1189 X, II, 106 | sufficient with the judicious and knowing, are commonly too fine to
1190 I, 0, 4 | Aristotle is utterly decayed. La Bruyere passes the seas,
1191 I, 0, 6 | may seem burdensome and laborious. Obscurity, indeed, is painful
1192 VIII, I, 63 | philosophers into such a labyrinth of obscure sophistry, that
1193 V, II, 42(*) | intuens, Scipionem, Catonem, Laelium, nostrum vero in primis
1194 X, II, 105 | means of his spittle, and a lame man by the mere touch of
1195 II, 0, 11 | description be taken for a real landskip. The most lively thought
1196 VII, I, 53 | possesses more of it than one languishing with sickness. We are more
1197 XI, 0, 111(*)| Lucian, sump. e Lapithai [The Banquet, or the Lapiths].~
1198 XI, 0, 111(*)| Lapithai [The Banquet, or the Lapiths].~
1199 II, 0, 15 | applied to the organ. A Laplander or Negro has no notion of
1200 I, 0, 8 | Some instances, especially late ones, of success in these
1201 IV, I, 24 | small a resistance to a lateral pressure. Such events, as
1202 VIII, II, 78 | what is altogether good and laudable. Or, Secondly, if they be
1203 XII, II, 137 | the first to join in the laugh against himself, and to
1204 VIII, II, 81 | employ her enquiries, without launching into so boundless an ocean
1205 I, 0, 5 | balancing of power; the lawyer more method and finer principles
1206 VIII, I, 65 | parties; seldom in their leaders; and scarcely even in individuals
1207 V, II, 42(*) | audiamus aut scriptum aliquod legamus? Velut ego nunc moveor.
1208 X, II, 105 | that he saw him with two legs. This miracle was vouched
1209 XI, 0, 113 | schools, there to examine, at leisure, the question the most sublime,
1210 XII, II, 133(*)| which cannot be divided or lessened, either by the eye or imagination.
1211 XII, I, 131(*)| ingenious author form the best lessons of scepticism which are
1212 XII, II, 137 | and men remain in a total lethargy, till the necessities of
1213 IV, I, 22 | be some other fact; as a letter received from him, or the
1214 V, II, 44 | senses. When a sword is levelled at my breast, does not the
1215 VIII, I, 65 | falsehood, and prove him a liar, with the same certainty
1216 X, II, 101 | have been a great deal too liberal in our concession, and that
1217 XII, III, 141 | enquiry.~ When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles,
1218 X, I, 98 | in Rome, even during the lifetime of that philosophical patriot. *
1219 IX, 0, 83 | when you menace him, or lift up the whip to beat him?
1220 II, 0, 16 | from the deepest to the lightest; it is plain that he will
1221 | likely
1222 X, II, 105 | leg; but recovered that limb by the rubbing of holy oil
1223 I, 0, 8 | the eye readily find those lines and boundaries, which discriminate
1224 V, I, 37 | and however the particular links might be connected with
1225 IV, I, 24 | nourishment for a man, not for a lion or a tiger?~ But the same
1226 X, I, 98(*) | moment, from the utmost liquidity to perfect hardness. Such
1227 I, 0, 2 | think it a reproach to all literature, that philosophy should
1228 VII, I, 52 | fingers, not over the heart or liver? This question would never
1229 VIII, I, 64 | with such exactness that a living creature may as soon arise
1230 X, II, 104 | regard the authority of Titus Livius, Plutarch, Tacitus, and,
1231 X, II, 108 | religion, as the prodigies of Livy: And no less so, everything
1232 IV, I, 24 | or the attraction of a loadstone, could ever be discovered
1233 V, II, 42(*) | errore quodam, ut, cum ea loca videamus, in quibus memoria
1234 VII, I, 55 | in the will that produces local motion in our members: It
1235 V, II, 42(*) | vis admonitionis est in locis; ut non sine causa ex his
1236 V, I, 34 | its rash arrogance, its lofty pretensions, and its superstitious
1237 IV, II, 32 | regard to all objects? What logic, what process of argument
1238 VII, I, 57 | conduct to it were ever so logical, there must arise a strong
1239 I, 0, 9 | the endeavour of critics, logicians, and even politicians: Nor
1240 IX, 0, 94 | little or nothing, by the longest practice and experience.
1241 VIII, II, 76 | esteemed a cause, and be looked upon as an instance of that
1242 VI, 0, 46 | evident, that, when the mind looks forward to discover the
1243 XI, 0, 112 | a future state, seem to loosen, in a great measure, the
1244 III, 0, 18 | succeeded each other. Were the loosest and freest conversation
1245 X, II, 108 | pretence it may be covered.~ Lord Bacon seems to have embraced
1246 X, II, 102 | in these circumstances, loses all pretensions to authority.
1247 VII, I, 52 | or arm, or who had newly lost those members, frequently
1248 XII, II, 134(*)| It certainly concerns all lovers of science not to expose
1249 XI, 0, 111 | conversation with a friend who loves sceptical paradoxes; where,
1250 IX, 0, 84 | all the higher, as well as lower classes of sensitive beings,
1251 X, I, 96 | highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence.~
1252 X, II, 106(*)| Lucretius.
1253 VIII, I, 67 | That many secret powers lurk in it, which are altogether
1254 VIII, II, 79 | irritate than appease a man lying under the racking pains
1255 VII, I, 54(*) | Theos apo mechanes (deus ex machina).
1256 IV, II, 31 | though none but a fool or madman will ever pretend to dispute
1257 X, II, 108 | in the writers of natural magic or alchemy, or such authors,
1258 V, II, 42(*) | acceperimus multum esse versatos, magis moveamur, quam siquando
1259 V, I, 34 | while we aspire to the magnanimous firmness of the philosophic
1260 X, II, 103 | information. The stories come magnified to them by a hundred circumstances.
1261 X, II, 106 | the reporter; whether it magnifies his country, his family,
1262 VII, I, 56 | they diminish, instead of magnifying, the grandeur of those attributes,
1263 I, 0, 9 | true motions, order, and magnitude of the heavenly bodies:
1264 X, II, 104 | we believe any miracle of Mahomet or his successors, we have
1265 X, II, 104 | they had mentioned that Mahometan miracle, and had in express
1266 X, II, 104 | credit of two witnesses, maintaining a crime against any one,
1267 I, 0, 4 | passes the seas, and still maintains his reputation: But the
1268 V, II, 42(*) | esse videtur postquam est maior, solebam intuens, Scipionem,
1269 XI, 0, 112 | black one to gratify the malice of my adversaries.~ Very
1270 VIII, II, 79 | laws, which produced the malignant humours in his body, and
1271 V, I, 34 | only serve, by imprudent management. to foster a predominant
1272 VIII, I, 69 | have ever found them. A manufacturer reckons upon the labour
1273 IV, I, 21 | more excusable; while we march through such difficult paths
1274 X, II, 106 | and those delivered by Mariana, Bede, or any monkish historian.~
1275 VIII, I, 69 | he carries his goods to market, and offers them at a reasonable
1276 X, II, 102 | towns, as those concerning marriages; insomuch that two young
1277 X, II, 103 | philosophers of that renowned mart of learning had immediately
1278 XI, 0, 120 | and all the instruments of masonry; could you not infer from
1279 VII, I, 53 | with sickness. We are more master of our thoughts in the morning
1280 VII, I, 53 | Fasting, than after a full meal. Can we give any reason
1281 II, 0, 60 | commonly used, have very loose meanings annexed to them; and their
1282 VII, I, 54(*) | Theos apo mechanes (deus ex machina).
1283 VII, I, 53 | substance, or both, some secret mechanism or structure of parts, upon
1284 VIII, II, 81 | how the Deity can be the mediate cause of all the actions
1285 VIII, II, 80 | sentiments arise, either mediately or immediately, from a reflection
1286 VIII, II, 80 | What though philosophical meditations establish a different opinion
1287 XII, III, 140 | to trace, by a variety of mediums, their equality or inequality,
1288 I, 0, 4 | severely punish, by the pensive melancholy which they introduce, by
1289 X, II, 105 | falsehood.~There is also a memorable story related by Cardinal
1290 X, II, 105 | interfuere, nunc quoque memorant, postquam nullum mendacio
1291 V, II, 42(*) | loca videamus, in quibus memoria dignos viros acceperimus
1292 V, II, 42(*) | ut non sine causa ex his memoriae deducta sit disciplina."~
1293 V, II, 42(*) | illi hortuli propinqui non memoriam solum mihi afferunt, sed
1294 IX, 0, 83 | apprehensive of pain, when you menace him, or lift up the whip
1295 X, II, 105 | memorant, postquam nullum mendacio pretium. To which if we
1296 II, 0, 60(*) | unequal times; but by a direct mensuration and comparison.
1297 V, II, 42(*) | Venit enim mihi Plato in mentem, quem accepimus primum hic
1298 V, II, 42(*) | ipsum videntur in conspectu meo hic ponere. Hic Speusippus,
1299 V, I, 36 | general, physician, or merchant is trusted and followed;
1300 X, II, 106 | in support of so holy and meritorious a cause?~ The smallest spark
1301 XII, III, 139 | reflections of common life, methodized and corrected. But they
1302 VII, I, 49 | may, perhaps, attain a new microscope or species of optics, by
1303 X, II, 105 | testimony. And what adds mightily to the force of the evidence,
1304 II, 0, 15 | a less degree. A man of mild manners can form no idea
1305 X, II, 103 | him trust the success of a military expedition to his delusive
1306 IV, I, 24 | the ultimate reason, why milk or bread is proper nourishment
1307 II, 0, 11 | imagination. These faculties may mimic or copy the perceptions
1308 VIII, II, 78 | For as a man, who fired a mine, is answerable for all the
1309 VIII, I, 65 | with the nature of plants, minerals, and other external objects,
1310 V, I, 34 | the human mind, nor can mingle itself with any natural
1311 V, II, 42(*) | non hanc novam, quae mihi minor esse videtur postquam est
1312 VIII, I, 67 | hid, by reason of their minuteness or remoteness, find, that
1313 II, 0, 11 | our thought is a faithful mirror, and copies its objects
1314 XI, 0, 116 | present state of vice and miscry, I hear them with attention
1315 XII, II, 137 | unsatisfied, put an end to their miserable existence. It is true; so
1316 X, II, 106 | temptation than to appear a missionary, a prophet, an ambassador
1317 IX, 0, 88 | confusion of ideas, and mistaking one for another; and there
1318 V, II, 40 | ideas, and can join and mix and vary them, in all the
1319 V, II, 39 | it has unlimited power of mixing, compounding, separating,
1320 XI, 0, 117 | chief joy of human life, and moderation the only source of tranquillity
1321 IV, I, 21 | either by the ancients or moderns; and therefore our doubts
1322 I, 0, 7 | despair, which, at some moments, prevails, may give place
1323 V, I, 36 | a like tyranny, were our monarchs freed from the restraints
1324 X, II, 106 | by Mariana, Bede, or any monkish historian.~ The wise lend
1325 X, II, 103 | and flourished to such a monstrous height, arose from like
1326 I, 0, 9 | upon such a supposition? Moralists have hitherto been accustomed,
1327 VII, I, 53 | master of our thoughts in the morning than in the evening: Fasting,
1328 XII, II, 135 | same condition as other mortals.~
1329 XI, 0, 120 | heaps of brick and stone and mortar, and all the instruments
1330 V, I, 34 | credulity. Every passion is mortified by it, except the love of
1331 VIII, I, 66 | custom and education, which mould the human mind from its
1332 I, 0, 3 | enters more into common life; moulds the heart and affections;
1333 VII, I, 52 | a secret wish, to remove mountains, or control the planets
1334 XI, 0, 116 | tell me, that they have mounted on the steps or by the gradual
1335 XI, 0, 120 | which you have put into the mouth of Epicurus. If you saw,
1336 V, II, 42(*) | multum esse versatos, magis moveamur, quam siquando eorum ipsorum
1337 II, 0, 12 | any of those sensations or movements above mentioned.~
1338 V, II, 42(*) | legamus? Velut ego nunc moveor. Venit enim mihi Plato in
1339 II, 0, 61 | am afraid that, should I multiply words about it, or throw
1340 V, II, 42(*) | dignos viros acceperimus multum esse versatos, magis moveamur,
1341 V, II, 41 | plead in excuse for the mummeries, with which they are upbraided,
1342 X, I, 98(*) | they never saw water in Muscovy during the winter; and therefore
1343 VIII, I, 65 | as if he had stuffed his narration with stories of centaurs
1344 X, II, 102 | reality: he may know his narrative to be false, and yet persevere
1345 VIII, II, 79 | antagonists. The affections take a narrower and more natural survey
1346 V, II, 42(*) | Naturane nobis, inquit, datum dicam,
1347 X, I, 98 | which contradiction there necessarily arises a counterpoize, and
1348 XII, I, 128 | 119. So far, then, are we necessitated by reasoning to contradict
1349 IV, I, 24 | upon impulse; and that we needed not to have waited for the
1350 I, 0, 6 | by whatever labour, must needs be delightful and rejoicing.~
1351 I, 0, 9 | who philosophize the most negligently: And nothing can be more
1352 II, 0, 15 | the organ. A Laplander or Negro has no notion of the relish
1353 V, I, 36 | history of a Tiberius or a Nero makes us dread a like tyranny,
1354 | nevertheless
1355 VII, I, 52 | the leg or arm, or who had newly lost those members, frequently
1356 X, II, 102 | pleasure of telling a piece of news so interesting, of propagating
1357 VII, I, 57(*) | the meaning of Sir Isaac Newton to rob second causes of
1358 | next
1359 XII, III, 141(*)| ancient philosophy, Ex nihilo, nihil fit, by which the creation
1360 XII, III, 141(*)| the ancient philosophy, Ex nihilo, nihil fit, by which the
1361 V, II, 42(*) | Naturane nobis, inquit, datum dicam, an
1362 XII, III, 141 | involve a contradiction. The non-existence of any being, without exception,
1363 VIII, I, 70 | human nature. A man who at noon leaves his purse full of
1364 VI, 0, 47 | a certainty in the more northern kingdoms. Here then it seems
1365 V, II, 42(*) | videmus. Equidem etiam curiam nostram, Hostiliam dico, non hanc
1366 V, II, 42(*) | Scipionem, Catonem, Laelium, nostrum vero in primis avum cogitare.
1367 IV, II, 29 | that other bread must also nourish me at another time, and
1368 IV, II, 29 | bread, which I formerly eat, nourished me; that is, a body of such
1369 V, II, 42(*) | Hostiliam dico, non hanc novam, quae mihi minor esse videtur
1370 V, I, 36 | followed; and the unpractised novice, with whatever natural talents
1371 X, II, 108(*)| Novum Organum, II, aph. 29.
1372 X, II, 105 | quoque memorant, postquam nullum mendacio pretium. To which
1373 XII, I, 126 | fallaciousness of our organs, on numberless occasions; the crooked appearance
1374 IV, I, 20 | a relation between these numbers. Propositions of this kind
1375 X, II, 105 | and the witnesses very numerous, and all of them, in a manner,
1376 IX, 0, 94 | economy and order of its nursery.~ ~
1377 XII, I, 126 | crooked appearance of an oar in water; the various aspects
1378 X, II, 105 | mere touch of his foot; in obedience to a vision of the god Serapis,
1379 X, II, 108 | to past observation, and obliges us to compare the instances
1380 X, II, 106 | afterwards sunk into neglect and oblivion? Where such reports, therefore,
1381 V, I, 34 | groundless reproach and obloquy. But, perhaps, the very
1382 VIII, II, 81 | leaving a scene so full of obscurities and perplexities, return,
1383 XI, 0, 116 | them not, I own, the same obsequious submission and pious deference.
1384 XI, 0, 116 | matter, we are told, or the observance of general laws, or some
1385 XI, 0, 116 | world so much abounds. The obstinate and intractable qualities
1386 VII, I, 48 | the difficulties, which obstruct the progress of the former,
1387 VIII, I, 70 | window, and meet with no obstruction, he will not remain a moment
1388 I, 0, 6 | whoever can either remove any obstructions in this way, or open up
1389 IV, II, 32 | perhaps, I have small hopes of obtaining a solution? We shall at
1390 XII, I, 128 | justify this new system, and obviate the cavils and objections
1391 VIII, II, 78 | 78. I pretend not to have obviated or removed all objections
1392 V, II, 44 | in every circumstance and occurrence of human life. Had not the
1393 VIII, II, 81 | launching into so boundless an ocean of doubt, uncertainty, and
1394 X, II, 108 | the concurrence of so many odd circumstances, but should
1395 VIII, II, 75 | person of an antagonist odious. This I observe in general,
1396 XI, 0, 117 | 108. Where, then, is the odiousness of that doctrine, which
1397 VIII, I, 69 | his goods to market, and offers them at a reasonable price,
1398 VII, I, 52 | employ them in their usual offices. Here he is as much conscious
1399 XI, 0, 111 | sacerdotal character, and to officiate at the altar, in the most
1400 VI, 0, 46 | that event, and meets it oftener, in revolving the various
1401 X, II, 105 | limb by the rubbing of holy oil upon the stump; and the
1402 X, II, 103 | we experience. Prodigies, omens, oracles, judgements, quite
1403 VII, I, 53 | kind of Fiat, imitates the omnipotence of its Maker, if I may be
1404 VII, I, 55 | particular volition of our omnipotent Maker, which excites such
1405 II, 0, 15 | which he is deficient; by opening this new inlet for his sensations,
1406 VI, 0, 47 | always proved a purge, or opium a soporific to every one,
1407 X, II, 105 | fact? And what have we to oppose to such a cloud of witnesses,
1408 V, I, 34 | gains few partizans: By opposing so many vices and follies,
1409 I, 0, 6 | remit his watch a moment, is oppressed. And many, through cowardice
1410 XI, 0, 123 | way for persecution and oppression in points, where the generality
1411 VII, I, 49 | microscope or species of optics, by which, in the moral
1412 VIII, I, 70 | I know to be honest and opulent, and with whom I live in
1413 X, II, 103 | experience. Prodigies, omens, oracles, judgements, quite obscure
1414 XII, III, 139 | embellishment of poets and orators, or to the arts of priests
1415 VII, I, 52 | control the planets in their orbit; this extensive authority
1416 XII, III, 141 | control the planets in their orbits. It is only experience,
1417 VIII, II, 78 | Creator. He foresaw, he ordained, he intended all those actions
1418 VIII, II, 79 | period of its existence, ordered with perfect benevolence;
1419 I, 0, 8 | and enquiry. This talk of ordering and distinguishing, which
1420 X, II, 108(*)| Novum Organum, II, aph. 29.
1421 XI, 0, 122(*)| knowledge of the cause is originally derived. Let the inferred
1422 VIII, II, 75 | circumstance in the received orthodox system with regard to the
1423 | ours
1424 XI, 0, 122 | by some faint traces or outlines, beyond which we have no
1425 VIII, I, 67 | irregular events, which outwardly discover themselves, can
1426 VII, I, 48 | ambiguity or variation. An oval is never mistaken for a
1427 X, I, 96 | the one side is found to overbalance the other, and to produce
1428 I, 0, 7 | philosophy, is, with others, overbalanced by curiosity; and despair,
1429 VII, I, 52(*) | sentiment of an endeavour to overcome resistance has no known
1430 XI, 0, 123 | which you seem to have overlooked. Though I should allow your
1431 IV, I, 27 | force, so as to make it an overmatch for its antagonist. Geometry
1432 X, II, 102 | impudence: and his impudence overpowers their credulity.~ Eloquence,
1433 X, II, 104 | though more indirectly, to overthrow every other system. In destroying
1434 I, 0, 6 | avenue of the mind, and overwhelm it with religious fears
1435 IV, I, 27 | discovery of the law itself is owing merely to experience, and
1436 X, II, 105 | body in town, that had ever paid his devotions at that church.
1437 I, 0, 5 | science is useful to the painter in delineating even a Venus
1438 VII, I, 52 | man, suddenly struck with palsy in the leg or arm, or who
1439 XI, 0, 122 | savours more of flattery and panegyric, than of just reasoning
1440 X, II, 103 | proceed, from his ignorant Paphlagonians, to the enlisting of votaries,
1441 V, I, 38 | still our curiosity will be pardonable, perhaps commendable, if
1442 X, II, 105 | France upon the tomb of Abbe Paris, the famous Jansenist, with
1443 X, II, 108 | acknowledged and proclaimed by the parliament; and that, after being interred
1444 X, II, 102 | are informed, yet love to partake of the satisfaction at second-hand
1445 X, I, 98 | endeavours to establish, partakes of the extraordinary and
1446 VIII, I, 68 | sometimes happens, cannot be particularly accounted for, either by
1447 X, I, 98 | asseverations. There are many other particulars of the same kind, which
1448 VIII, I, 65 | expected in multitudes and parties; seldom in their leaders;
1449 XI, 0, 111 | and to have made a fair partition of mankind between them;
1450 V, I, 34 | irregular passion, it gains few partizans: By opposing so many vices
1451 XI, 0, 118 | render this life merely a passage to something farther; a
1452 X, I, 98 | lifetime of that philosophical patriot. * The incredibility of
1453 VIII, I, 70 | purse full of gold on the pavement at Charing Cross, may as
1454 XI, 0, 123 | and even to the state, by paving the way for persecution
1455 XI, 0, 116 | hold the same discourse, I pay them not, I own, the same
1456 VIII, I, 67 | their mutual opposition. A peasant can give no better reason
1457 IV, II, 33 | most ignorant and stupid peasants - nay infants, nay even
1458 XII, III, 141 | anything. The falling of a pebble may, for aught we know,
1459 VIII, I, 68 | obliging disposition gives a peevish answer: But he has the toothache,
1460 XI, 0, 111 | creeds, concessions, or penal statutes. For, except the
1461 VIII, I, 67 | same force in the spring or pendulum has always the same influence
1462 XI, 0, 111 | public encouragement*(2) of pensions and salaries was afforded
1463 I, 0, 4 | severely punish, by the pensive melancholy which they introduce,
1464 X, II, 109 | to such as we find in the Pentateuch, which we shall examine,
1465 VII, I, 48 | between them is immediately perceptible, and the same terms are
1466 XI, 0, 122 | particular degree of these perfections, we infer a particular degree
1467 XI, 0, 114 | concerning any other design or performance. Such qualities must be
1468 XII, II, 137 | that all human life must perish, were his principles universally
1469 X, II, 106 | clear up the matter, have perished beyond recovery.~ No means
1470 VIII, II, 76 | very nature, temporary and perishing; and where they proceed
1471 XII, II, 135 | prosperity and adversity; the perpetual contradiction of each particular
1472 I, 0, 7 | sensible an interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides
1473 XII, III, 138 | To hesitate or balance perplexes their understanding, checks
1474 VIII, II, 81 | full of obscurities and perplexities, return, with suitable modesty,
1475 XII, III, 138 | compared with the universal perplexity and confusion, which is
1476 XI, 0, 112 | replied he, that in fact these persecutions never, in any age, proceeded
1477 XI, 0, 111 | most inveterate enemy and persecutor. Speculative dogmas of religion,
1478 X, II, 102 | narrative to be false, and yet persevere in it, with the best intentions
1479 XI, 0, 117 | endeavoured to detect. You persist in imagining, that, if we
1480 VIII, II, 80 | real distinction between personal beauty and deformity? Both
1481 XI, 0, 111 | every age and nation. This pertinacious bigotry, of which you complain,
1482 X, II, 103 | is apt to say, upon the perusal of these wonderful historians,
1483 V, II, 43 | appeared to us. This is another phaenomenon, which seems to prove the
1484 X, II, 106 | the battle of Philippi or Pharsalia for instance; that therefore
1485 X, II, 106 | it relates the battle of Philippi or Pharsalia for instance;
1486 I, 0, 9 | day made even by those who philosophize the most negligently: And
1487 XII, III, 141 | politics, natural philosophy, physic, chemistry, &c. where the
1488 X, II, 108 | death she was seen by her physicians and the whole court, as
1489 VII, I, 48 | than either geometry or physics, we may conclude, that,
1490 IV, I, 24 | them. Present two smooth pieces of marble to a man who has
1491 XI, 0, 120 | more finished scheme or plan, which will receive its
1492 II, 0, 13 | body is confined to one planet, along which it creeps with
1493 I, 0, 5 | and more caution in his plans and operations. The stability
1494 V, II, 42(*) | moveor. Venit enim mihi Plato in mentem, quem accepimus
1495 V, II, 39 | able to believe whatever it pleases; contrary to what we find
1496 I, 0, 3 | profound philosopher to a mere plebeian.~
1497 VIII, I, 70 | employ our criticism upon any poet or polite author, if we
1498 I, 0, 4 | seems, then, that nature has pointed out a mixed kind of life
1499 VIII, I, 71 | describing that necessity, and pointing it out to us in the operations
1500 V, II, 42(*) | Xenocrates, hic eius auditor Polemo; cuius ipsa illa sessio