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1501 X, II, 103 | they relate.~ It was a wise policy in that false prophet, Alexander,
1502 VIII, I, 65 | than the men described by Polybius and Tacitus are to those
1503 X, II, 106 | Suppose that the Caesarean and Pompeian factions had, each of them,
1504 V, I, 37 | desert country the remains of pompous buildings, would conclude
1505 XII, II, 133 | consequences; as they are pompously displayed by all geometricians
1506 V, II, 42(*) | videntur in conspectu meo hic ponere. Hic Speusippus, hic Xenocrates,
1507 X, II, 108 | which she could reap from so poor an artifice: All this might
1508 VIII, I, 69 | intention of the agent. The poorest artificer, who labours alone,
1509 X, II, 106 | auricularum, * the gazing populace, receive greedily, without
1510 XI, 0, 118 | to something farther; a porch, which leads to a greater,
1511 IV, I, 26 | only to discover larger portions of it. Thus the observation
1512 IV, II, 33 | perhaps, be rash to conclude positively that the subject must, therefore,
1513 XI, 0, 111 | learned and wise, the latter possessing all the vulgar and illiterate.~
1514 VI, 0, 46 | in revolving the various possibilities or chances, on which the
1515 V, II, 41 | those external motions, and postures, and actions, in enlivening
1516 X, I, 99(*) | down dead, the clouds to pour rain, the winds to blow,
1517 X, II, 102 | temptation, operates on him more powerfully than on the rest of mankind
1518 V, II, 41 | shall only infer from these practices, and this reasoning, that
1519 VIII, I, 65 | experience teaches the old practitioner the rules by which this
1520 XI, 0, 112 | adversaries.~ Very well: Pray proceed upon these suppositions.~
1521 VIII, II, 78 | causes, preordained and pre-determined, reaching from the original
1522 V, II, 44 | Here, then, is a kind of pre-established harmony between the course
1523 VIII, II, 79 | racking pains of the gout by preaching up to him the rectitude
1524 IV, I, 22 | inference would be entirely precarious. The hearing of an articulate
1525 XI, 0, 116 | golden or silver age, which preceded the present state of vice
1526 V, I, 35 | event, in one instance, precedes another, that therefore
1527 XII, III, 138 | argument, they throw themselves precipitately into the principles, to
1528 VII, I, 49 | a greater clearness and precision in philosophical reasonings,
1529 I, 0, 7 | by the failures of his predecessors; while he hopes that the
1530 V, I, 34 | management. to foster a predominant inclination, and push the
1531 I, 0, 5 | of mankind contented to prefer the easy philosophy to the
1532 X, I, 95 | hands, says that learned prelate, that the authority, either
1533 VIII, II, 78 | chain of necessary causes, preordained and pre-determined, reaching
1534 XII, I, 125 | sense, and is a necessary preparative to the study of philosophy,
1535 X, II, 106 | the materials are always prepared for it. The avidum genus
1536 XII, I, 127 | by a natural instinct or prepossession, to repose faith in their
1537 XII, I, 125 | original principle which has a prerogative above others, that are self-evident
1538 VIII, II, 81 | contingency of human actions with prescience; or to defend absolute decrees,
1539 VIII, I, 64 | by the laws of nature, prescribed with such exactness that
1540 XI, 0, 113 | government, I hope that you will presently send us back to our schools,
1541 I, 0, 5 | and manners. The anatomist presents to the eye the most hideous
1542 XII, I, 125 | and others, as a sovereign preservative against error and precipitate
1543 XII, I, 126 | images which arise from the pressing one eye; with many other
1544 IV, I, 24 | resistance to a lateral pressure. Such events, as bear little
1545 VIII, II, 80 | Whence it may reasonably be presumed, that the moral sentiments
1546 XI, 0, 116 | from causes to effects; presuming, that a more perfect production
1547 V, II, 44 | correlative object is always presupposed; without which the relation
1548 I, 0, 8 | of it be esteemed, in all pretenders to learning and philosophy.~
1549 VII, I, 52 | proceed to examine this pretension; and first with regard to
1550 VIII, I, 65 | unravel all its intricacies. Pretexts and appearances no longer
1551 X, II, 105 | postquam nullum mendacio pretium. To which if we add the
1552 I, 0, 7 | which, at some moments, prevails, may give place afterwards
1553 VIII, I, 72(*)| The prevalence of the doctrine of liberty
1554 VII, I, 57(*) | what means has it become so prevalent among our modern metaphysicians?~
1555 VI, 0, 47 | structure of parts, have prevented the operation. Our reasonings,
1556 IV, I, 27 | ice of cold, without being previously acquainted with the operation
1557 VIII, II, 81 | of her temerity, when she pries into these sublime mysteries;
1558 XII, II, 133 | absurdity and contradiction. No priestly dogmas, invented on purpose
1559 V, II, 42(*) | Laelium, nostrum vero in primis avum cogitare. Tanta vis
1560 V, II, 42(*) | in mentem, quem accepimus primum hic disputare solitum: cuius
1561 X, I, 98 | an authority.~The Indian prince, who refused to believe
1562 VII, I, 48 | ambiguity of the terms. The principal difficulty in the mathematics
1563 XI, 0, 111 | liberty above all other privileges, and chiefly flourishes
1564 I, 0, 7 | still leap at the arduous prize, and find himself stimulated,
1565 X, II, 108 | successor was acknowledged and proclaimed by the parliament; and that,
1566 V, II, 43 | reliques, which a devotee could procure, would be the handywork
1567 IV, I, 26 | to reduce the principles, productive of natural phenomena, to
1568 X, II, 105 | imputation, of atheism and profaneness: The persons, from whose
1569 VIII, I, 71 | propensity, in all ages, to profess the contrary opinion. The
1570 XII, I, 131(*)| Bayle not excepted. He professes, however, in his title page (
1571 I, 0, 5 | observe, in every art or profession, even those which most concern
1572 XI, 0, 111 | Roman emperors, *(3) to the professors of every sect of philosophy.
1573 I, 0, 10 | rewarded, not only in point of profit but of pleasure, if, by
1574 XII, I, 130 | therefore, in which the profounder and more philosophical sceptics
1575 I, 0, 4 | and profound researches I prohibit, and will severely punish,
1576 XI, 0, 118 | vastly different building; a prologue, which serves only to introduce
1577 VIII, II, 80 | those which more directly promote its happiness and welfare?
1578 X, II, 106 | sooths superstition, and promotes wonder.~How many stories
1579 X, II, 102 | the world, for the sake of promoting so holy a cause: or even
1580 IX, 0, 91 | experience or the greater promptitude of suggesting analogies,
1581 II, 0, 59 | of this nature, he then pronounces them to be connected. What
1582 VII, I, 52 | the motion is successively propagated, ere it reach the member
1583 X, II, 110 | be absurd to employ any prophecy as an argument for a divine
1584 V, II, 42(*) | cuius etiam illi hortuli propinqui non memoriam solum mihi
1585 VI, 0, 46 | the probability receives a proportionable encrease, and begets still
1586 X, I, 96 | A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.
1587 VIII, I, 63 | to turn a deaf ear to the proposal of such a question, from
1588 XII, II, 137 | meaning is? And what he proposes by all these curious researches?
1589 II, 0, 14 | goodness and wisdom. We may prosecute this enquiry to what length
1590 I, 0, 9 | mental powers and economy, if prosecuted with equal capacity and
1591 XII, II, 134(*)| hint at present, without prosecuting it any farther. It certainly
1592 IV, I, 21 | doubts and errors, in the prosecution of so important an enquiry,
1593 I, 0, 6 | way, or open up any new prospect, ought so far to be esteemed
1594 XII, II, 135 | health, youth and old age, prosperity and adversity; the perpetual
1595 XI, 0, 111 | except the banishment of Protagoras, and the death of Socrates,
1596 I, 0, 6 | intangling brambles to cover and protect their weakness. Chased from
1597 VIII, I, 69 | alone, expects at least the protection of the magistrate, to ensure
1598 X, I, 98 | it told me by Cato, was a proverbial saying in Rome, even during
1599 X, II, 102 | especially in country places and provincial towns, as those concerning
1600 I, 0, 9 | contented themselves with proving, from the phaenomena, the
1601 VIII, I, 72(*)| by a denial of it we are provoked to try, we feel, that it
1602 XII, I, 125 | religion, who naturally provokes the indignation of all divines
1603 V, I, 36 | conclusions, and consequently the prudence of his conduct, entirely
1604 VII, I, 48 | by the most diligent and prudent enquiry. As moral philosophy
1605 XII, II, 137 | answer. A Copernican or Ptolemaic, who supports each his different
1606 X, II, 105 | a relation of them was published and dispersed every where;
1607 VIII, II, 75 | in the schools, in the pulpit, and in common life, been
1608 I, 0, 4 | prohibit, and will severely punish, by the pensive melancholy
1609 XI, 0, 117 | the course of events, and punishes the vicious with infamy
1610 VIII, II, 79 | while they taught their pupils that those ills under which
1611 VIII, I, 69 | reasonable price, he shall find purchasers, and shall be able, by the
1612 VI, 0, 47 | rhubarb always proved a purge, or opium a soporific to
1613 IV, II, 32 | doubts. But you mistake the purport of my question. As an agent,
1614 VIII, I, 70 | man who at noon leaves his purse full of gold on the pavement
1615 I, 0, 1 | by taste and sentiment; pursuing one object, and avoiding
1616 VII, I, 49 | compose them. But when we have pushed up definitions to the most
1617 I, 0, 4 | parent of another, while he pushes on his consequences, and
1618 VIII, I, 67 | of a grain of dust, which puts a stop to the whole movement.
1619 V, II, 42(*) | Hostiliam dico, non hanc novam, quae mihi minor esse videtur
1620 I, 0, 5 | An artist must be better qualified to succeed in this undertaking,
1621 XII, II, 133 | finite quantity, containing quantities infinitely less than itself,
1622 V, II, 42(*) | enim mihi Plato in mentem, quem accepimus primum hic disputare
1623 XI, 0, 114 | existence (which I never questioned) is derived from the order
1624 X, II, 105 | price of a lie. Utrumque, qui interfuere, nunc quoque
1625 V, II, 42(*) | cum ea loca videamus, in quibus memoria dignos viros acceperimus
1626 I, 0, 5 | besides a delicate taste and a quick apprehension, possesses
1627 V, II, 41 | enlivening their devotion and quickening their fervour, which otherwise
1628 X, II, 102 | so easily, and spreads so quickly, especially in country places
1629 VIII, I, 65 | conduct. The veracity of Quintus Curtius is as much to be
1630 V, II, 42(*) | datum dicam, an errore quodam, ut, cum ea loca videamus,
1631 X, II, 105 | Utrumque, qui interfuere, nunc quoque memorant, postquam nullum
1632 VIII, II, 79 | appease a man lying under the racking pains of the gout by preaching
1633 III, 0, 18 | reflect, that the imagination ran not altogether at adventures,
1634 X, II, 108 | word of everything new, rare, and extraordinary in nature.
1635 IV, I, 27 | motion is in the compound ratio or proportion of its solid
1636 VII, I, 57 | fairy land, long ere we have reached the last steps of our theory;
1637 VIII, II, 78 | preordained and pre-determined, reaching from the original cause
1638 I, 0, 4 | Addison, perhaps, will be read with pleasure, when Locke
1639 XII, II, 134(*)| conclusions; and this seems the readiest solution of these difficulties.
1640 V, II, 40 | the mind, which renders realities, or what is taken for such,
1641 IV, I, 22 | seem to be founded on the realtion of Cause and Effect. By
1642 I, 0, 6 | there no advantage to be reaped from these studies, beyond
1643 X, I, 98 | concerning the effects of frost, reasoned justly; and it naturally
1644 XII, II, 133 | purpose to tame and subdue the rebellious reason of mankind, ever
1645 X, II, 102 | satisfaction at second-hand or by rebound, and place a pride and delight
1646 XII, II, 134(*)| imagination, are easily recalled; and our reasoning and conclusion
1647 I, 0, 7 | interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides this,
1648 II, 0, 61 | 61. To recapitulate, therefore, the reasonings
1649 X, II, 103 | have no opportunity of receiving better information. The
1650 | recent
1651 I, 0, 7 | war into the most secret recesses of the enemy? In vain do
1652 VIII, I, 69 | found them. A manufacturer reckons upon the labour of his servants
1653 XII, III, 139 | their objects, in order to recommend it to us. We shall then
1654 I, 0, 10 | these speculations is no recommendation, but rather a disadvantage
1655 I, 0, 3 | abstruse; and by many will be recommended, not only as more agreeable,
1656 XII, I, 125 | precipitate judgement. It recommends an universal doubt, not
1657 VIII, II, 80 | between vice and virtue be reconcileable to all speculative systems
1658 X, II, 105 | time, wanting a leg; but recovered that limb by the rubbing
1659 X, II, 106 | matter, have perished beyond recovery.~ No means of detection
1660 XII, II, 133 | infinitely less than any rectilineal angle, that as you may increase
1661 VIII, II, 79 | preaching up to him the rectitude of those general laws, which
1662 VIII, II, 76 | performed them, they can neither redound to his honour, if good;
1663 V, II, 41 | connexion or association we have reduced to three, namely, Resemblance,
1664 XI, 0, 115 | other; and the one can never refer to anything further, or
1665 XII, I, 132 | contrary to reason, and if referred to reason, is contrary to
1666 XII, I, 127 | reason; and no man, who reflects, ever doubted, that the
1667 I, 0, 3 | principles which actuate men, reforms their conduct, and brings
1668 VIII, I, 70 | certain train of ideas: The refusal of the soldiers to consent
1669 X, I, 98 | The Indian prince, who refused to believe the first relations
1670 X, II, 103 | which it may be distinctly refuted. And thus the impostor above
1671 IV, II, 32 | supposition? My practice, you say, refutes my doubts. But you mistake
1672 II, 0, 14 | and that an easy method of refuting it; by producing that idea,
1673 X, I, 96 | degree of assurance, and regards his past experience as a
1674 VIII, I, 62 | the intellectual system or region of spirits, they may long
1675 XI, 0, 122 | that almost everything is regulated by principles and maxims
1676 V, II, 44 | of our species, and the regulation of our conduct, in every
1677 I, 0, 6 | needs be delightful and rejoicing.~ But this obscurity in
1678 X, II, 105 | of the miracle. Here the relater was also contemporary to
1679 I, 0, 4 | But the mind requires some relaxation, and cannot always support
1680 X, II, 102 | pretensions to authority. A religionist may be an enthusiast, and
1681 VIII, I, 71 | have yet discovered such a reluctance to acknowledge it in words,
1682 X, II, 107 | assurance which arises from the remainder. But according to the principle
1683 IV, II, 32 | all objects. How is this remedied by experience? It only shows
1684 I, 0, 6 | stoutest antagonist, if he remit his watch a moment, is oppressed.
1685 VIII, I, 67 | reason of their minuteness or remoteness, find, that it is at least
1686 I, 0, 4 | error, goes no farther; but renewing his appeal to common sense,
1687 X, II, 102 | judgement they have, they renounce by principle, in these sublime
1688 V, I, 34 | the understanding, and of renouncing all speculations which lie
1689 I, 0, 4 | been able to support their renown with more equitable posterity.
1690 IV, II, 29 | us, we make no scruple of repeating the experiment, and foresee,
1691 VIII, II, 76 | whole character. Again, repentance wipes off every crime, if
1692 V, I, 36 | we can go so far, without repining at the narrowness of our
1693 X, II, 106 | favours the passion of the reporter; whether it magnifies his
1694 V, I, 36 | danger which we must incur by reposing an entire confidence in
1695 V, II, 40 | conscious of the sentiment represented by it. It may not, however,
1696 XII, I, 132 | objection goes farther, and represents this opinion as contrary
1697 IV, II, 30 | in all other respects, resembles snow, has yet the taste
1698 I, 0, 7 | so hard an adventure is reserved for him alone. The only
1699 X, II, 103 | had Alexander fixed his residence at Athens, the philosophers
1700 VII, I, 49 | ambiguity and obscurity; what resource are we then possessed of?
1701 IV, II, 30 | and which, in all other respects, resembles snow, has yet
1702 XII, I, 132 | that such an opinion, if rested on natural instinct, is
1703 II, 0, 15 | colours; a deaf man of sounds. Restore either of them that sense
1704 X, I, 100 | that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider
1705 II, 0, 13 | authority, but is not even restrained within the limits of nature
1706 I, 0, 5 | considerable advantage, which results from the accurate and abstract
1707 X, II, 108 | month, she again appeared, resumed the throne, and governed
1708 I, 0, 4 | between those extremes; retaining an equal ability and taste
1709 VII, I, 48 | with greater facility, retains the ideas of geometry clear
1710 VII, I, 48 | natural philosophy is chiefly retarded by the want of proper experiments
1711 I, 0, 4 | company instructive, and retirement entertaining.~ Man is a
1712 VIII, II, 78 | they be criminal, we must retract the attribute of perfection,
1713 I, 0, 4 | sentiments of the mind, returns into the right path, and
1714 X, II, 105 | story related by Cardinal de Retz, which may well deserve
1715 X, I, 95 | presence ever so clearly revealed in scripture, it were directly
1716 V, II, 44 | than any loose, floating reverie of the imagination. That
1717 XI, 0, 118 | their contemplation, so far reverse the whole course of nature,
1718 XII, I, 125 | timorous and sure steps, to review frequently our conclusions,
1719 V, II, 43 | this object would instantly revive its correlative idea, and
1720 III, 0, 18 | that there had secretly revolved in his mind a succession
1721 VI, 0, 46 | and meets it oftener, in revolving the various possibilities
1722 I, 0, 10 | think ourselves sufficiently rewarded, not only in point of profit
1723 II, 0, 61 | and reserve the flowers of rhetoric for subjects which are more
1724 VI, 0, 47 | irregular and uncertain; nor has rhubarb always proved a purge, or
1725 V, I, 34 | and transitory nature of riches and honours, we are, perhaps,
1726 I, 0, 5 | the latter employs all the richest colours of his art, and
1727 X, II, 108 | been so much imposed on by ridiculous stories of that kind, that
1728 V, I, 34 | will always maintain her rights, and prevail in the end
1729 XI, 0, 111 | altar, in the most sacred rites of the established religion:
1730 X, II, 104 | system. In destroying a rival system, it likewise destroys
1731 X, I, 98(*) | and the freezing of their rivers ought to be deemed a prodigy:
1732 VIII, II, 80 | the objects? A man who is robbed of a considerable sum; does
1733 I, 0, 6 | the open country, these robbers fly into the forest, and
1734 XI, 0, 111 | supposed more hardy and robust, she bears with much difficulty
1735 X, II, 105 | ignorance, cunning, and roguery of a great part of mankind.
1736 XI, 0, 120 | foot, though effaced by the rolling of the sands or inundation
1737 VIII, I, 65 | of life of the Greeks and Romans? Study well the temper and
1738 XII, III, 141 | unintelligible. That the cube root of 64 is equal to the half
1739 X, II, 105 | recovered that limb by the rubbing of holy oil upon the stump;
1740 X, II, 106 | altercations and debate and flying rumours; especially when men's passions
1741 XI, 0, 111 | admitted to receive the sacerdotal character, and to officiate
1742 I, 0, 6 | one accession to those few safe and harmless pleasures,
1743 I, 0, 7 | some persons, affords a safeguard against this deceitful philosophy,
1744 IV, I, 27 | them. A man must be very sagacious who could discover by reasoning
1745 V, II, 43 | would be the handywork of a saint; and if his cloaths and
1746 V, II, 43 | fond of the reliques of saints and holy men, for the same
1747 XI, 0, 111 | encouragement*(2) of pensions and salaries was afforded equally, by
1748 IV, II, 30 | snow, has yet the taste of salt or feeling of fire? Is there
1749 X, II, 103 | them with that inviolable sanction and authority, which always
1750 X, II, 105 | famous Jansenist, with whose sanctity the people were so long
1751 XI, 0, 121 | The print of a foot in the sand can only prove, when considered
1752 XI, 0, 120 | effaced by the rolling of the sands or inundation of the waters.
1753 I, 0, 7 | give place afterwards to sanguine hopes and expectations.
1754 X, II, 105 | enemies, he passed through Saragossa, the capital of Aragon,
1755 XI, 0, 113 | thereby excite, instead of satisfying, the doubts, which naturally
1756 X, I, 95 | to those miracles of our Saviour, by which he proved his
1757 XI, 0, 122 | the full, in his works, savours more of flattery and panegyric,
1758 VIII, I, 70 | prisoner, when conducted to the scaffold, foresees his death as certainly
1759 XI, 0, 114 | ten ounces raised in any scale may serve as a proof, that
1760 VIII, I, 69 | great in all societies that scarce any human action is entirely
1761 VIII, I, 69 | always comprehend, in their schemes of life, a greater variety
1762 IV, II, 33 | be indeed a very backward scholar; since I cannot now discover
1763 XII, I, 131 | the absurdity of all the scholastic notions with regard to abstraction
1764 II, 0, 17 | into this question by the Schoolmen, who, making use of undefined
1765 V, II, 42(*) | maior, solebam intuens, Scipionem, Catonem, Laelium, nostrum
1766 X, II, 103 | which, being treated with scorn by all the wise and judicious,
1767 V, II, 42(*) | ipsorum aut facta audiamus aut scriptum aliquod legamus? Velut ego
1768 XI, 0, 113 | arise from a diligent and scrutinous enquiry. They paint, in
1769 X, II, 102 | received, their descriptions of sea and land monsters, their
1770 XI, 0, 120 | it? If you saw upon the sea-shore the print of one human foot,
1771 I, 0, 4 | decayed. La Bruyere passes the seas, and still maintains his
1772 X, II, 106 | the deluded multitude, the season is now past, and the records
1773 XI, 0, 111 | difficulty the inclemency of the seasons, and those harsh winds of
1774 X, II, 102 | partake of the satisfaction at second-hand or by rebound, and place
1775 IV, II, 29 | great distance from all her secrets, and has afforded us only
1776 V, II, 42(*) | memoriam solum mihi afferunt, sed ipsum videntur in conspectu
1777 V, I, 34 | and drudgery of business, seeks a pretence of reason to
1778 VIII, I, 70 | founded.- But he may have been seized with a sudden and unknown
1779 I, 0, 1 | engage the affections. They select the most striking observations
1780 VII, I, 53 | another.~ Thirdly, This self-command is very different at different
1781 X, II, 102 | other circumstances; and self-interest with equal force. His auditors
1782 II, 0, 15 | revenge or cruelty; nor can a selfish heart easily conceive the
1783 V, I, 34 | a more refined system of selfishness, and reason ourselves out
1784 XI, 0, 119 | in the field, or in the senate. Nothing else ought ever
1785 V, I, 36 | the restraints of laws and senates: But the observation of
1786 IX, 0, 84 | well as lower classes of sensitive beings, which fall under
1787 VIII, II, 78 | which we shall examine separately; First, that, if human actions
1788 XI, 0, 111 | allying with superstition, separates himself entirely from the
1789 V, II, 39 | of mixing, compounding, separating, and dividing these ideas,
1790 X, II, 105 | usual effects of that holy sepulchre. But what is more extraordinary;
1791 X, II, 105 | obedience to a vision of the god Serapis, who had enjoined them to
1792 XII, III, 139 | determination, nothing can be more serviceable, than to be once thoroughly
1793 VIII, II, 75 | entirely to be forborne; as serving nothing to the discovery
1794 V, II, 42(*) | Polemo; cuius ipsa illa sessio fuit, quam videmus. Equidem
1795 VIII, I, 72(*)| side, on which it did not settle. This image, or faint motion,
1796 X, II, 105 | cathedral, a man, who had served seven years as a doorkeeper, and
1797 I, 0, 4 | researches I prohibit, and will severely punish, by the pensive melancholy
1798 VIII, I, 66 | behaviour and conduct of the one sex very unlike that of the
1799 V, II, 41 | and immaterial objects. We shadow out the objects of our faith,
1800 VIII, I, 70 | sudden earthquake arise, and shake and tumble my house about
1801 X, I, 97 | were they not sensible to shame, when detected in a falsehood:
1802 II, 0, 13 | unite to the figure and shape of a horse, which is an
1803 II, 0, 13 | monsters, and join incongruous shapes and appearances, costs the
1804 I, 0, 10 | hitherto served only as a shelter to superstition, and a cover
1805 X, II, 101 | prodigy: But it is easy to shew that we have been a great
1806 VIII, I, 72(*)| the fantastical desire of shewing liberty, is here the motive
1807 X, II, 105 | of Aragon, where he was shewn, in the cathedral, a man,
1808 VIII, I, 64 | nature were continually shifted in such a manner that no
1809 VII, I, 50 | universe are continually shifting, and one object follows
1810 X, I, 99(*) | The raising of a house or ship into the air is a visible
1811 XII, II, 133 | reason of mankind, ever shocked common sense more than the
1812 XII, II, 133 | demonstration to support, because it shocks the clearest and most natural
1813 X, II, 103 | sown in a more proper soil, shot up at last into prodigies
1814 VIII, I, 71 | in words, and have rather shown a propensity, in all ages,
1815 IV, I, 26 | and principles are totally shut up from human curiosity
1816 X, II, 104 | ancient Rome, of Turkey, of Siam, and of China should, all
1817 IV, II, 28 | if we still carry on our sifting humour, and ask, What is
1818 I, 0, 4 | anything deemed a surer sign of an illiberal genius in
1819 X, II, 108 | concurrence, than admit of so signal a violation of the laws
1820 X, I, 95 | kind, which must at least silence the most arrogant bigotry
1821 XII, I, 128 | is, and must be entirely silent. The mind has never anything
1822 VIII, I, 64 | entirely new, without any similitude to whatever had been seen
1823 IV, I, 26 | phenomena, to a greater simplicity, and to resolve the many
1824 XI, 0, 122(*)| operation, than those which simply produced the effect, whence
1825 V, II, 42(*) | admonitionis est in locis; ut non sine causa ex his memoriae deducta
1826 VIII, II, 79 | the proper canals, to the sinews and nerves, where they now
1827 VIII, I, 65 | which he was hurried on singly to attack multitudes, as
1828 V, II, 42(*) | versatos, magis moveamur, quam siquando eorum ipsorum aut facta
1829 VII, I, 57(*) | was never the meaning of Sir Isaac Newton to rob second
1830 V, II, 42(*) | ex his memoriae deducta sit disciplina."~ Cicero, De
1831 V, I, 38 | the soul, when we are so situated, as unavoidable as to feel
1832 XII, II, 134(*)| animal, of a particular size or figure: But as that term
1833 XII, II, 134(*)| other colours, figures and sizes, these ideas, though not
1834 XI, 0, 121 | work has proceeded from the skill and industry of man; as
1835 II, 0, 17 | obscure: the mind has but a slender hold of them: they are apt
1836 XII, II, 135 | nature, they vanish like smoke, and leave the most determined
1837 I, 0, 4 | his acquisitions. Man is a sociable, no less than a reasonable
1838 V, I, 34 | of all virtue as well as social enjoyment. While we study
1839 VIII, I, 69 | of men is so great in all societies that scarce any human action
1840 XI, 0, 111 | Protagoras, and the death of Socrates, which last event proceeded
1841 I, 0, 5 | and virtue. How painful soever this inward search or enquiry
1842 X, II, 103 | being sown in a more proper soil, shot up at last into prodigies
1843 VIII, I, 70 | ideas: The refusal of the soldiers to consent to his escape;
1844 V, II, 42(*) | videtur postquam est maior, solebam intuens, Scipionem, Catonem,
1845 XI, 0, 115 | the cause being derived solely from the effect, they must
1846 X, I, 95 | us from their impertinent solicitations. I flatter myself, that
1847 VIII, I, 70 | itself, which is new, and solidly built and founded.- But
1848 V, II, 42(*) | accepimus primum hic disputare solitum: cuius etiam illi hortuli
1849 V, II, 42(*) | hortuli propinqui non memoriam solum mihi afferunt, sed ipsum
1850 XI, 0, 116 | be admitted as plausible solutions of the ill phenomena. But
1851 | sometime
1852 | somewhere
1853 V, II, 43 | existence.~ Suppose, that the son of a friend, who had been
1854 V, II, 41 | particular ideas, and that no sooner one idea occurs to our thoughts
1855 X, II, 106 | without examination, whatever sooths superstition, and promotes
1856 XI, 0, 117 | of necessity be a gross sophism; since it is impossible
1857 XI, 0, 121 | considered as fallacious and sophistical.~
1858 VI, 0, 47 | proved a purge, or opium a soporific to every one, who has taken
1859 II, 0, 58 | great a length: We have sought in vain for an idea of power
1860 XII, III, 141 | and the immortality of souls, is composed partly of reasonings
1861 I, 0, 1 | steps in these paths by the soundest precepts and most illustrious
1862 XII, I, 125 | Cartes and others, as a sovereign preservative against error
1863 I, 0, 6 | submission, as their legal sovereigns.~
1864 X, II, 103 | like beginnings; but being sown in a more proper soil, shot
1865 X, II, 105 | intriguing politician fled into Spain, to avoid the persecution
1866 X, II, 106 | meritorious a cause?~ The smallest spark may here kindle into the
1867 VII, I, 53 | if I may be allowed so to speak, who called forth into existence
1868 VIII, I, 72(*)| liberty within ourselves, a spectator can commonly infer our actions
1869 XI, 0, 112 | extraordinary a topic, and make a speech for Epicurus, which might
1870 V, II, 42(*) | conspectu meo hic ponere. Hic Speusippus, hic Xenocrates, hic eius
1871 IV, I, 26 | meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude
1872 X, II, 105 | Alexandria, by means of his spittle, and a lame man by the mere
1873 II, 0, 11 | colours of poetry, however splendid, can never paint natural
1874 X, II, 105 | immediately proved upon the spot, before judges of unquestioned
1875 VIII, I, 67 | that the same force in the spring or pendulum has always the
1876 XII, III, 140 | hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides,
1877 VIII, I, 70 | assured that he is not to stab me before he leaves it in
1878 II, 0, 17(*) | by Locke and others; as standing for any of our perceptions,
1879 VIII, I, 70 | order to rob me of my silver standish; and I no more suspect this
1880 X, II, 103 | advantages are so great, of starting an imposture among an ignorant
1881 V, I, 36 | life; while the experienced statesman, general, physician, or
1882 VIII, I, 65 | individuals of any rank or station. But were there no uniformity
1883 X, II, 102 | Capuchin, every itinerant or stationary teacher can perform over
1884 XI, 0, 114 | know, that he was also a statuary or architect, and was an
1885 XI, 0, 111 | creeds, concessions, or penal statutes. For, except the banishment
1886 IV, I, 26 | of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little
1887 V, II, 41 | correlative, but reaches a steadier and stronger conception
1888 V, I, 34 | abundance of enemies, who stigmatize it as libertine, profane,
1889 I, 0, 7 | prize, and find himself stimulated, rather that discouraged,
1890 XII, II, 137 | durable, with his audience. A Stoic or Epicurean displays principles,
1891 IX, 0, 83 | nature of fire, water, earth, stones, heights, depths, &c., and
1892 I, 0, 6 | fears and prejudices. The stoutest antagonist, if he remit
1893 V, II, 44 | object does in all cases give strength and solidity to the related
1894 VIII, I, 71 | ignorance be the result of the strictest scrutiny of this subject,
1895 V, II, 44 | the idea of wound and pain strike me more strongly, than when
1896 I, 0, 1 | affections. They select the most striking observations and instances
1897 II, 0, 60 | that the vibration of this string is the cause of this particular
1898 II, 0, 60 | sentiment or feeling from the stroke or blow of an external object
1899 VII, I, 52 | farther.~ A man, suddenly struck with palsy in the leg or
1900 I, 0, 4 | comprehended, and send back the student among mankind full of noble
1901 I, 0, 6 | to be reaped from these studies, beyond the gratification
1902 VIII, I, 65 | same certainty as if he had stuffed his narration with stories
1903 X, II, 105 | rubbing of holy oil upon the stump; and the cardinal assures
1904 VII, I, 56 | breath all the wheels of that stupendous machine.~ But if we would
1905 I, 0, 4 | compositions of the easy style and manner, which draw not
1906 I, 0, 5 | foresight and subtility, in the subdividing and balancing of power;
1907 XII, II, 133 | invented on purpose to tame and subdue the rebellious reason of
1908 X, II, 102 | the willing hearers, and subdues their understanding. Happily,
1909 VII, I, 57(*) | matter has a real, though subordinate and derived power. By what
1910 I, 0, 5 | abstract philosophy, is, its subserviency to the easy and humane;
1911 I, 0, 5 | perfection, and renders them more subservient to the interests of society.
1912 XII, II, 135 | existence, and cannot possibly subsist, without continually employing
1913 VII, I, 52 | the nature of both these substances; by which the one is able
1914 VII, I, 48 | mind readily, of itself, substitutes, on all occasions, the definition
1915 X, II, 107 | we have nothing to do but substract the one from the other,
1916 X, II, 107 | principle here explained, this substraction, with regard to all popular
1917 I, 0, 5 | acquire greater foresight and subtility, in the subdividing and
1918 IX, 0, 89 | attention, accuracy, and subtilty.~
1919 I, 0, 8 | scepticism as is entirely subversive of all speculation, and
1920 I, 0, 7 | dispositions; and is alone able to subvert that abstruse philosophy
1921 XII, II, 135 | that evidence. The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive
1922 X, II, 110 | in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his
1923 I, 0, 5 | must be better qualified to succeed in this undertaking, who,
1924 III, 0, 18 | the different ideas, which succeeded each other. Were the loosest
1925 VII, I, 52 | through which the motion is successively propagated, ere it reach
1926 X, II, 108 | persons of her rank; that her successor was acknowledged and proclaimed
1927 X, II, 104 | miracle of Mahomet or his successors, we have for our warrant
1928 VII, I, 52 | and no farther.~ A man, suddenly struck with palsy in the
1929 X, II, 105(*)| Histories, iv. 81. Suetonius gives nearly the same account,
1930 XI, 0, 123 | that any government has suffered in its political interests
1931 XII, I, 127 | exists independent of us, suffers no alteration: it was, therefore,
1932 XII, III, 139 | so reasonable, that it suffices to make the slightest examination
1933 IV, II, 28 | airs of superior wisdom and sufficiency, have a hard task when they
1934 IV, I, 23 | transparency of water that it would suffocate him, or from the light and
1935 VI, 0, 47 | always burned, and water suffocated every human creature: The
1936 IX, 0, 91 | the greater promptitude of suggesting analogies, will be the better
1937 XII, I, 128 | mind itself, or from the suggestion of some invisible and unknown
1938 XII, II, 133 | suspence, which, without the suggestions of any sceptic, gives her
1939 XI, 0, 115 | suppositions, in order to suit them to the attributes,
1940 XI, 0, 115 | therefore, O philosophers, be suited to the present appearances
1941 X, I, 98(*) | same. The inhabitants of Sumatra have always seen water fluid
1942 VII, I, 52(*) | without any exertion or summoning up of force; to inanimate
1943 XI, 0, 111(*)| Lucian, sump. e Lapithai [The Banquet,
1944 X, II, 106 | time, and have afterwards sunk into neglect and oblivion?
1945 VIII, I, 69 | been conjoined; it may seem superfluous to prove that this experienced
1946 XI, 0, 115 | disorder. You forget, that this superlative intelligence and benevolence
1947 I, 0, 6 | from the craft of popular superstitions, which, being unable to
1948 V, I, 34 | such a philosophy to the supine indolence of the mind, its
1949 V, II, 41 | concur, we are abundantly supplied with experiments to prove
1950 X, II, 107 | a proof; and that, even supposing it amounted to a proof,
1951 I, 0, 4 | nor is anything deemed a surer sign of an illiberal genius
1952 VII, I, 54 | cause of that event which surprises them, and which, they think,
1953 V, II, 40 | person, together with all the surrounding objects. I paint them out
1954 VIII, II, 79 | narrower and more natural survey of their object; and by
1955 V, I, 36 | which it would form upon surveying all the circles in the universe.
1956 XII, II, 133 | a kind of amazement and suspence, which, without the suggestions
1957 XII, III, 138 | checks their passion, and suspends their action. They are,
1958 V, I, 34 | always talk of doubt and suspense of judgement, of danger
1959 X, II, 108 | relation must be considered as suspicious, which depends in any degree
1960 X, II, 103 | and stupid, and ready to swallow even the grossest delusion.
1961 I, 0, 6 | bestowed on the human race. The sweetest and most inoffensive path
1962 V, II, 44 | present to the senses. When a sword is levelled at my breast,
1963 XI, 0, 112 | the people, by any of the sycophants or informers of those days,
1964 XII, III, 140 | with all those pretended syllogistical reasonings, which may be
1965 VIII, I, 67 | human body, when the usual symptoms of health or sickness disappoint
1966 VIII, I, 74 | unintelligible terms or such as are synonymous to the term which he endeavours
1967 | taking
1968 V, I, 36 | which the man of greatest talent is, at first, apt to overlook,
1969 XI, 0, 111 | their sacred tenets of such tales chiefly as were the objects
1970 XII, II, 133 | invented on purpose to tame and subdue the rebellious
1971 XII, II, 133 | between other curves and their tangents may be infinitely less than
1972 V, II, 42(*) | in primis avum cogitare. Tanta vis admonitionis est in
1973 XI, 0, 122 | than the sun to a waxen taper, and who discovers himself
1974 XII, III, 141 | fact, to wit, the general tastes of mankind, or some such
1975 IV, II, 32 | powers, he is not guilty of a tautology, nor are these propositions
1976 X, II, 102 | itinerant or stationary teacher can perform over the generality
1977 XI, 0, 111 | the philosophers; these teachers seem ever after, during
1978 II, 0, 17 | out their disputes to a tedious length, without ever touching
1979 X, II, 102 | together. The pleasure of telling a piece of news so interesting,
1980 VIII, II, 76 | are, by their very nature, temporary and perishing; and where
1981 X, I, 97 | other. Were not the memory tenacious to a certain degree; had
1982 VIII, II, 80 | blame are chiefly such as tend to public detriment and
1983 X, II, 105 | and on the most eminent theatre that is now in the world.
1984 VIII, I, 72 | least, must be owned to be thenceforth merely verbal. But as long
1985 VII, I, 54(*) | Theos apo mechanes (deus ex machina).
1986 X, II, 103 | But as the former grow thinner every page, in proportion
1987 III, 0, 18 | the person who broke the thread of discourse might still
1988 X, II, 108 | again appeared, resumed the throne, and governed England for
1989 I, 0, 5 | abstract and profound, without throwing any blame or contempt on
1990 XII, II, 133 | Reason here seems to be thrown into a kind of amazement
1991 VII, I, 48 | considering how soon nature throws a bar to all our enquiries
1992 V, I, 36 | situation. The history of a Tiberius or a Nero makes us dread
1993 XI, 0, 112 | in a great measure, the ties of morality, and may be
1994 IV, I, 24 | man, not for a lion or a tiger?~ But the same truth may
1995 X, I, 95 | 86. There is, in Dr. Tillotson's writings, an argument
1996 XII, I, 125 | principles, to advance by timorous and sure steps, to review
1997 XII, I, 131(*)| professes, however, in his title page (and undoubtedly with
1998 X, II, 104 | regard the authority of Titus Livius, Plutarch, Tacitus,
1999 VI, 0, 45(*) | or that the sun will rise to-morrow. But to conform our language
2000 XI, 0, 123 | that the state ought to tolerate every principle of philosophy;
2001 XI, 0, 111 | and country of freedom and toleration, and was never cramped,