Metaphysical Inquiry Into Method, Objects, and Result of Ancient and Modern PhilosophyW. Pickering, 1833 - 222 páginas |
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... originally published in a more condensed form in 1831 , as an Appen- dix to a collection of Ancient Fragments . Lambeth . February 5 , 1833 . C. WHITTINGHAM , LONDON . METAPHYSICAL INQUIRY . THE revival of literature in modern times.
... originally published in a more condensed form in 1831 , as an Appen- dix to a collection of Ancient Fragments . Lambeth . February 5 , 1833 . C. WHITTINGHAM , LONDON . METAPHYSICAL INQUIRY . THE revival of literature in modern times.
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... originally founded upon some strong analogical reasonings ; or have been the conception of some master - spirit of a by- gone age , so brilliant , as , at the time , to have commanded universal assent ; or , having been struck out in ...
... originally founded upon some strong analogical reasonings ; or have been the conception of some master - spirit of a by- gone age , so brilliant , as , at the time , to have commanded universal assent ; or , having been struck out in ...
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... originally communicated by the Soul of the animal itself to the mate- rial world through its connexion with the body , or whether the soul has power only to influence and divert the motion and force , with which that body may be sur ...
... originally communicated by the Soul of the animal itself to the mate- rial world through its connexion with the body , or whether the soul has power only to influence and divert the motion and force , with which that body may be sur ...
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... originally to have been acquainted with revealed truth , and by the refine- ments of philosophy to have fallen into materialism , and naturally and gradually to have descended to the grossest depth of atheism and 186 ORIGIN OF POWER .
... originally to have been acquainted with revealed truth , and by the refine- ments of philosophy to have fallen into materialism , and naturally and gradually to have descended to the grossest depth of atheism and 186 ORIGIN OF POWER .
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... originally communicated to the world ; that no part of it was ever lost ; but that it was bandied from one portion of matter to another in an eternal succession . I omit further mention of the specula- tions of Cudworth , Berkeley , and ...
... originally communicated to the world ; that no part of it was ever lost ; but that it was bandied from one portion of matter to another in an eternal succession . I omit further mention of the specula- tions of Cudworth , Berkeley , and ...
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18th dynasty according Ægyptus Amenoph Amun analogy ancient antecedent appears Armais ascending attributes Bocchoris body Brahma called Causation causes chain Chimæra coincidences colour conceive connexion Damascius Danaus deity Diodorus discovery divine doctrine Egyptian Eratosthenes Ether Eusebius evidently examination Exodus experiments fluid Frag fragments gods Gravity Greek Heathen Hermes Herodotus hypothesis Induction inference inquiry Intellect investigation Israelites Joseph Khem king of Egypt Kneph laws light Manetho material matter Memphite Menes ments metaphysical Mizraim monuments Moris Moses motion nature Nitocris object observed opinion originally Orphic Osiris Osirtesen passage perhaps Phanes Pharaoh phenomena philosophers Phoenix Phthah physical Plato plenum Plutarch present principles Ramesses Ramesses II reign respect says Sesostris Sethos Shepherd kings Shishak signets Siva soul species Suidas supposed Syncellus tablet Theban things Thinite Thoth Thothmos tion traced triad triple truth universe vacuum Vishnu Wilkinson word worship
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Página 140 - It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must be, if Gravitation in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it.
Página 61 - Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead In the rock for ever!
Página 121 - The ocean hath his chart, the stars their map, And Knowledge spreads them on her ample lap: But Rome is as the desert, where we steer Stumbling o'er recollections: now we clap Our hands, and cry, " Eureka ! it is clear — " When but some false mirage of ruin rises near.
Página 187 - But farther, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion ; for in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause...
Página 86 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Página 121 - Where the car climb'd the Capitol; far and wide Temple and tower went down, nor left a site: Chaos of ruins! who shall trace the void, O'er the dim fragments cast a lunar light, And say, 'here was, or is,
Página 26 - Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field ; for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.
Página 140 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of...
Página 13 - This universe existed only in the first divine idea yet unexpanded, as if involved in darkness, imperceptible, undefinable, undiscoverable by reason, and undiscovered by revelation, as if it were wholly immersed in sleep : then the sole self-existing power, himself undiscerned, but making this world discernible, with five elements and other principles of nature, appeared with undiminished glory, expanding his idea, or dispelling the gloom.