The General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 18Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1814 - Biography |
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... natural philo- sophy ; though I can by no means approve of his principles or maxims , which are very bad and extremely dangerous , because they suppose all men to be wicked , or give them occasion to be so . His whole design is to write ...
... natural philo- sophy ; though I can by no means approve of his principles or maxims , which are very bad and extremely dangerous , because they suppose all men to be wicked , or give them occasion to be so . His whole design is to write ...
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... Nature , " and another , " De cor- pore politico , or , of the Elements of the Law . " The latter was presented to Gassendi , and read by him a few months before his death ; who is said first to have kissed it , and then to have ...
... Nature , " and another , " De cor- pore politico , or , of the Elements of the Law . " The latter was presented to Gassendi , and read by him a few months before his death ; who is said first to have kissed it , and then to have ...
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... nature are not laws as they proceed from nature , yet as they are given by God in Holy Scripture , they are properly called laws ; for the Holy Scripture is the voice of God , ruling all things by the greatest right * . " But though he ...
... nature are not laws as they proceed from nature , yet as they are given by God in Holy Scripture , they are properly called laws ; for the Holy Scripture is the voice of God , ruling all things by the greatest right * . " But though he ...
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... nature , every man hath a right to all things , and over all persons ; and that the natural condition of man is a state of war , a war of all men against all men that there is no way so reasonable for any man , as by force or wiles to ...
... nature , every man hath a right to all things , and over all persons ; and that the natural condition of man is a state of war , a war of all men against all men that there is no way so reasonable for any man , as by force or wiles to ...
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... natural differences of good and evil , virtue and vice . It destroys the best principles of the human nature ; and instead of that innate benevolence and social disposi- tion which should unite men together , supposes all men to be ...
... natural differences of good and evil , virtue and vice . It destroys the best principles of the human nature ; and instead of that innate benevolence and social disposi- tion which should unite men together , supposes all men to be ...
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Page 249 - He has visited all Europe — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals or...
Page 249 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 304 - Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press, without reaching such distinction, as even to excite a murmur among the zealots.
Page 421 - Things Divine and Supernatural Conceived by Analogy with Things Natural and Human (1733) he asserts that knowledge of God's essence and attributes can bo only " analogical
Page 457 - James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend ; but what are the hopes of man ! I am disappointed by that stroke of death, which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
Page 173 - He arose, fresh as the morning, to his task ; the silence of the night invited him to pursue it : and he can truly say, that food and rest were not preferred before it. Every Psalm improved infinitely upon his acquaintance with it, and no one gave him uneasiness but the last; for then he grieved that his work was done.
Page 306 - I now reckon upon a speedy dissolution. I have suffered very little pain from my disorder; and what is more strange...
Page 515 - Jewish Antiquities, or a Course of Lectures on the Three first books of Godwin's Moses and Aaron. To which is annexed a Dissertation on the Hebrew Language.
Page 29 - A History of English Councils and Convocations, and of the Clergy's sitting in Parliament, in which is also comprehended the History of Parliaments, with an account of our ancient laws.
Page 220 - The nation as well as the university," says Bishop Burnet, "looked on all these proceedings with just indignation. It was thought an open piece of robbery and burglary when men, authorized by no legal commission, came and forcibly turned men out of their possession and freehold.