 | Matthew Hole - 1732 - 382 oldal
...and agreeable to the Divine Perfections ; tot fome things imply a Repugnancy of being or fubfifting 5 as for a thing to be and not to be at the fame time, or to be in two or more diftant Places at once $ which is tq be one, and not one. Thefe... | |
 | Thomas Chubb - 1754 - 432 oldal
...fountain of action, fhould both act and be quiefcent at the fame time; this being as much a contradiction as for a thing to be and not to be at the fame time: and confequently, if the Father, or the Holy Ghoft, did at any time act in, by, or upon... | |
 | George Campbell - 1801 - 462 oldal
...present conscious, my conviction is reducible to this axiom, or coincident with it, " It is impossible for a thing to be and not to be at " the same time." Now, when I say, I trust entirely to the clear report of my memory, I mean a good deal more than, "... | |
 | William Duncan - 1802 - 258 oldal
...are perfect ; or to say that nil men are mortal, and yet that some men are not mortal, is to assert a thing to be and not to be at the same time. Sec. IV. ...Demonstration, an Infallible Guide to Truth and Certainty. And now I think we are sufficiently... | |
 | William Duncan - 1802 - 256 oldal
...are perfect ; or to say that all men are mortal, and yet that some men are not mortal, is to assert a thing to be and not to be at the same time. S«c. IV.... Demonstration, an Infallible Guide to Truth and Certainty. And now I think we are sufficiently... | |
 | John Aikin - 1807 - 684 oldal
...He proposes two principles as the foundation of all our knowledge; the first, that it is impossible for a thing to be and not to be at the same time, which, he says, is the foundation of speculative truth. The other is, that nothing is without a sufficient... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 486 oldal
...which are absolutely impossible, and others which are only so exparte; as it is absolutely impossible for a thing to be, and not to be at the same time : But for a stone to move naturally upward, is only impossible ex parte materife; but it is not impossible... | |
 | Samuel Whelpley - 1808 - 390 oldal
...or contradictions ; for instance, that he cannot cause two and two to be five : that he cannot cause a thing to be and not to be, at the same time : but that he can cause a thing to be at one time, and not to be at another, involves no absurdity.... | |
 | John Gill - 1810 - 620 oldal
...to such dignity as to have divine perfections ascribed to it; he cannot make contradictions true ; a thing to be, and not to be at the same time ; or make a thing not to have been that has been ; but then these are no prejudices to his omnipotence,... | |
 | Joseph Bellamy - 1812 - 702 oldal
...reconciled to a character against which he was not at enmity, implies a contradiction. For it supposes a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time. For a call to a reconciliation supposes enmity. Therefore the Gospel did not call Adam after his fall... | |
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Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. 
