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2002 X, II, 105 | wrought in France upon the tomb of Abbe Paris, the famous
2003 IV, I, 21 | That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible
2004 IX, 0, 83 | manner, and with a certain tone and accent?~ In all these
2005 VII, I, 52 | will an influence over the tongue and fingers, not over the
2006 VIII, I, 69 | work as much as upon the tools which he employs, and would
2007 VIII, I, 68 | peevish answer: But he has the toothache, or has not dined. A stupid
2008 VIII, II, 79 | they now excite such acute torments. These enlarged views may,
2009 XI, 0, 116 | appear in the effect? Why torture your brain to justify the
2010 V, II, 42 | whatever relates to it touches me more nearly than when
2011 X, II, 102 | country places and provincial towns, as those concerning marriages;
2012 VIII, II, 78 | if human actions can be traced up, by a necessary chain,
2013 III, 0, 18 | breaks in upon the regular tract or chain of ideas, is immediately
2014 XI, 0, 111 | chiefly as were the objects of traditional belief, more than of argument
2015 III, 0, 18 | freest conversation to be transcribed, there would immediately
2016 III, 0, 18 | connected it in all its transitions. Or where this is wanting,
2017 V, I, 34 | thoughts towards the empty and transitory nature of riches and honours,
2018 X, II, 103 | barbarous ancestors, who transmitted them with that inviolable
2019 IV, I, 23 | inferred from the fluidity and transparency of water that it would suffocate
2020 II, 0, 13 | thought can in an instant transport us into the most distant
2021 X, II, 103 | apt to imagine ourselves transported into some new world; where
2022 II, 0, 13 | faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing
2023 VIII, I, 65 | govern the world.~ Should a traveller, returning from a far country,
2024 XII, II, 133 | the ground on which she treads. She sees a full light,
2025 IX, 0, 83 | gradually, from their birth, treasure up a knowledge of the nature
2026 VIII, I, 65 | The general observations treasured up by a course of experience,
2027 XI, 0, 111 | How requisite such kind of treatment was to philosophy, in her
2028 XII, I, 127 | say, this house and that tree, are nothing but perceptions
2029 IV, II, 30 | to affirm, that all the trees will flourish in December
2030 XII, II, 133 | properties of circles and triangles; and yet, when these are
2031 XII, I, 126 | not insist upon the more trite topics, employed by the
2032 II, 0, 13 | the imagination no more trouble than to conceive the most
2033 II, 0, 11 | and copies its objects truly; but the colours which it
2034 XI, 0, 113 | indulge a rash curiosity, in trying how far they can establish
2035 X, II, 102 | seldom attains. But what a Tully or a Demosthenes could scarcely
2036 VIII, I, 70 | earthquake arise, and shake and tumble my house about my ears.
2037 X, II, 104 | religions of ancient Rome, of Turkey, of Siam, and of China should,
2038 VIII, I, 63 | controversy has hitherto turned merely upon words. We shall
2039 VI, 0, 46 | a die, it considers the turning up of each particular side
2040 X, II, 102 | condition never see each other twice, but the whole neighbourhood
2041 V, I, 36 | Nero makes us dread a like tyranny, were our monarchs freed
2042 I, 0, 6 | superstitions, which, being unable to defend themselves on
2043 X, I, 98 | nature, with which he was unacquainted, and which bore so little
2044 X, II, 108 | all of them, to have an unconquerable appetite for falsehood and
2045 XI, 0, 114 | cause assigned be brute unconscious matter, or a rational intelligent
2046 V, I, 34 | to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence. There is, however,
2047 X, II, 102 | adventures, strange men, and uncouth manners? But if the spirit
2048 X, II, 106 | detect the cheat, in order to undeceive the deluded multitude, the
2049 VIII, I, 72 | supposition. The only method of undeceiving us is to mount up higher;
2050 II, 0, 17 | Schoolmen, who, making use of undefined terms, draw out their disputes
2051 XI, 0, 121 | undergone, or may still undergo. But what is the foundation
2052 XI, 0, 121 | alterations, which it has probably undergone, or may still undergo. But
2053 II, 0, 11 | person is in love, I easily understand your meaning, and form a
2054 V, II, 40 | that every one sufficiently understands in common life. And in philosophy,
2055 X, II, 109 | Christian Religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles
2056 I, 0, 5 | qualified to succeed in this undertaking, who, besides a delicate
2057 XI, 0, 117 | and success, in all their undertakings. But surely, I deny not
2058 XII, III, 140 | proceeds entirely from the undeterminate meaning of words, which
2059 II, 0, 11 | these perceptions altogether undistinguishable. All the colours of poetry,
2060 XII, III, 138 | excessive scepticism, when its undistinguished doubts are, in some measure,
2061 VIII, II, 79 | on his mind, even though undisturbed by the emotions of pain
2062 X, II, 101 | delusion in themselves; of such undoubted integrity, as to place them
2063 XII, I, 131(*)| in his title page (and undoubtedly with great truth) to have
2064 XII, III, 138 | state, which to them is so uneasy: and they think, that they
2065 II, 0, 60(*) | its effects in equal or unequal times; but by a direct mensuration
2066 XII, II, 133 | these principles seems as unexceptionable as that which proves the
2067 XII, I, 126 | mental faculties, or their unfitness to reach any fixed determination
2068 I, 0, 6 | wait to break in upon every unguarded avenue of the mind, and
2069 XI, 0, 114 | chance, or the blind and unguided force of matter. You allow,
2070 XI, 0, 116 | creature so imperfect and so unhappy. These attributes then,
2071 X, II, 106 | historians of each party had uniformly ascribed the advantage to
2072 VIII, I, 72 | operations of body and of brute unintelligent matter; and try whether
2073 VII, I, 50 | object follows another in an uninterrupted succession; but the power
2074 VIII, I, 70 | on the mind, whether the united objects be motives, volition,
2075 | unlike
2076 VIII, I, 70 | actors either natural or unnatural to such characters, and
2077 I, 0, 10 | and the avoiding of all unnecessary detail, we have, in the
2078 V, II, 40 | terms, which may seem so unphilosophical, is intended only to express
2079 V, I, 36 | trusted and followed; and the unpractised novice, with whatever natural
2080 VIII, II, 76 | they perform hastily and unpremeditately than for such as proceed
2081 VIII, II, 78 | establish this rule, upon unquestionable reasons, when we examine
2082 XII, II, 134 | must remain restless, and unquiet, even with regard to that
2083 VIII, I, 65 | nature, and teach us to unravel all its intricacies. Pretexts
2084 XII, II, 137 | the necessities of nature, unsatisfied, put an end to their miserable
2085 I, 0, 10 | knowledge, in subjects of such unspeakable importance.~ But as, after
2086 XI, 0, 122 | consequently, being entirely unsupported by any reason or argument,
2087 VIII, II, 76 | causes, a man is as pure and untainted, after having committed
2088 VIII, I, 70 | as that he will find it untouched an hour after. Above one
2089 V, II, 41 | mummeries, with which they are upbraided, that they feel the good
2090 III, 0, 18 | there was still a connexion upheld among the different ideas,
2091 IV, I, 25 | downward, rather than an upward, or any other motion, in
2092 XI, 0, 112 | harangue as will fill all the urn with white beans, and leave
2093 II, 0, 60 | senses. The only immediate utility of all sciences, is to teach
2094 X, II, 105 | as the price of a lie. Utrumque, qui interfuere, nunc quoque
2095 IV, I, 24 | must be conscious of the utter inability, which we then
2096 I, 0, 1 | is allowed to be the most valuable, this species of philosophers
2097 XII, II, 135 | principles of our nature, they vanish like smoke, and leave the
2098 I, 0, 3 | into business and action, vanishes when the philosopher leaves
2099 V, II, 40 | and can join and mix and vary them, in all the ways possible.
2100 XI, 0, 118 | leads to a greater, and vastly different building; a prologue,
2101 VIII, I, 65 | towards the production of vegetables; and experience teaches
2102 VIII, I, 72(*)| an image of itself (or a Velleity, as it is called in the
2103 V, II, 42(*) | scriptum aliquod legamus? Velut ego nunc moveor. Venit enim
2104 V, II, 42(*) | Velut ego nunc moveor. Venit enim mihi Plato in mentem,
2105 I, 0, 5 | painter in delineating even a Venus or an Helen. While the latter
2106 VII, I, 57 | which we take, by a kind of verisimilitude and experience, we may be
2107 V, II, 42(*) | Catonem, Laelium, nostrum vero in primis avum cogitare.
2108 V, II, 42(*) | acceperimus multum esse versatos, magis moveamur, quam siquando
2109 VIII, II, 80 | considerable sum; does he find his vexation for the loss anywise diminished
2110 VI | Sect. VI. Of Probability*~ ~
2111 II, 0, 60 | sound, and that all similar vibrations have been followed by similar
2112 V, II, 42(*) | quodam, ut, cum ea loca videamus, in quibus memoria dignos
2113 V, II, 42(*) | ipsa illa sessio fuit, quam videmus. Equidem etiam curiam nostram,
2114 V, II, 42(*) | mihi afferunt, sed ipsum videntur in conspectu meo hic ponere.
2115 V, II, 42(*) | novam, quae mihi minor esse videtur postquam est maior, solebam
2116 V, II, 41 | transition. We take a pleasure in viewing the picture of a friend,
2117 I, 0, 6 | which being endowed with vigorous and florid health, require
2118 VII | Sect. VII. Of the Idea of necessary
2119 VIII | Sect. VIII. Of Liberty and Necessity~ ~
2120 X, I, 97 | noted for falsehood and villany, has no manner of authority
2121 X, I, 98 | on the contrary, with too violent asseverations. There are
2122 V, II, 42(*) | in quibus memoria dignos viros acceperimus multum esse
2123 VIII, I, 72(*)| for, from another cause, viz. a false sensation or seeming
2124 XII, III, 141 | we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics,
2125 V, I, 37 | then we must peruse the volumes in which this instruction
2126 X, II, 103 | Paphlagonians, to the enlisting of votaries, even among the Grecian
2127 X, II, 105 | two legs. This miracle was vouched by all the canons of the
2128 IV, II, 31 | instruction, if any one will vouchsafe to bestow it on me.~
2129 V, I, 36 | those maxims, which are vulgarly esteemed the result of pure
2130 I, 0, 6 | into the forest, and lie in wait to break in upon every unguarded
2131 IV, I, 24 | that we needed not to have waited for the event, in order
2132 VIII, I, 70 | obstinacy of the gaoler, as the walls and bars with which he is
2133 XII, I, 125 | The knights-errant, who wandered about to clear the world
2134 III, 0, 18 | in our wildest and most wandering reveries, nay in our very
2135 X, II, 104 | successors, we have for our warrant the testimony of a few barbarous
2136 VIII, I, 65 | behaviour. These records of wars, intrigues, factions, and
2137 XI, 0, 120 | sands or inundation of the waters. Why then do you refuse
2138 XI, 0, 122 | universe than the sun to a waxen taper, and who discovers
2139 XII, I, 125 | impartiality in our judgements, and weaning our mind from all those
2140 X, I, 96 | expect better weather in any week of June than in one of December,
2141 X, I, 96 | proceeds with more caution: He weighs the opposite experiments:
2142 XII, II, 133 | prodigious, that it is too weighty for any pretended demonstration
2143 VIII, II, 80 | promote its happiness and welfare? Are such remote and uncertain
2144 XI, 0, 117 | am sensible, that, to a well-disposed mind, every advantage is
2145 VIII, I, 70 | operation of the axe or wheel. His mind runs along a certain
2146 | Whereas
2147 IX, 0, 83 | menace him, or lift up the whip to beat him? Is is not even
2148 VIII, II, 76 | derived from it, and the wickedness of the one can never be
2149 VII, I, 48 | and compare ideas much wider of each other, in order
2150 III, 0, 18 | rejected. And even in our wildest and most wandering reveries,
2151 X, I, 99(*) | raising of a feather, when the wind wants ever so little of
2152 VIII, I, 70 | throw himself out at the window, and meet with no obstruction,
2153 XI, 0, 116 | ascent of reason by the wings of imagination; otherwise
2154 X, I, 98(*) | water in Muscovy during the winter; and therefore they cannot
2155 VIII, II, 76 | character. Again, repentance wipes off every crime, if attended
2156 XI, 0, 111 | afforded equally, by the wisest of all the Roman emperors, *(
2157 X, II, 103 | But, though much to be wished, it does not always happen,
2158 X, II, 105 | candour and veracity, and withal, the greatest and most penetrating
2159 VIII, I, 67 | medicines operate not with their wonted powers; when irregular events
2160 I, 0, 5 | of the understanding, the workings of the passions, and the
2161 XI, 0, 115 | which appears in their workmanship; but nothing farther can
2162 I, 0, 4 | communication with mankind, and is wrapped up in principles and notions
2163 X, II, 109 | barbarous and ignorant people, written in an age when they were
2164 X | Sect. X. Of Miracles~ ~
2165 V, II, 42(*) | ponere. Hic Speusippus, hic Xenocrates, hic eius auditor Polemo;
2166 XI | Sect. XI. Of a particular Providence~
2167 | ye
2168 IX, 0, 83 | part of the chace to the younger, and will place himself
2169 XI, 0, 112 | who endeavoured, with such zeal, to expose him to the public
2170 X, II, 105 | cardinal found, by their zealous devotion, to be thorough
2171 XI, 0, 114 | from the sight of one of Zeuxis's pictures, could know,