On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God: As Manifested in the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man, 1. kötetWilliam Collins, 1839 - 302 oldal |
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12mo Cloth Lettered actual ADAPTATION OF EXTERNAL anger animal appetites argument authority beneficial benevolence Bishop Butler Bishop of Calcutta collocations conscience creation DANIEL WILSON DAVID YOUNG Davies Gilbert demonstration dispositions of matter distinct distinct laws Divine economy emotion enjoyment Essay by THOMAS evidence evil existence external nature faculty felt force former gratification habit hand happiness hath heart human mind individual indulgence inflicted injury instance JAMES MONTGOMERY labour law of suggestion material mechanism ment mental constitution moral character moral constitution moral nature natural philosophy natural theology ness object observation OLNEY HYMNS operation original pain palpable passion peculiar perty phenomena physical pleasure possession possessory feeling present principle regard respect righteousness secondary law sensation sense of justice society special affections species stitution strength theism theology thing THOMAS CHALMERS thought tion truth ture universal vice violence virtue virtuous wherewith whole wisdom wretchedness
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109. oldal - ... nee erit alia lex Romae, alia Athenis, alia nunc, alia posthac, sed et omnes gentes et omni tempore una lex et sempiterna et...
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9. oldal - On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation ; illustrating such work by all reasonable arguments, as for instance the variety and formation of God's creatures in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms ; the effect of digestion, and thereby of conversion ; the construction of. the hand of man, and an infinite variety of other arguments ; as also by discoveries...
10. oldal - Gilbert, Esq. requested the assistance of his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury and of the Bishop of London, in determining upon the best mode of carrying into effect the intentions of the Testator. Acting with their advice, and with the concurrence of a nobleman immediately connected with the deceased, Mr. Davies Gilbert appointed the following eight gentlemen to write separate Treatises on the different branches of the subject as here stated : THE REV.
108. oldal - Est quidem vera lex, recta ratio, naturae congruens, diffusa in omnes, constans, sempiterna, quae vocet ad officium jubendo, vetando a fraude deterreat ; quae tarnen neque probos frustra jubet aut vetat, nee improbos jubendo aut vetando movet.
42. oldal - For it became him who created them to set them in order. And if he did so, it's unphilosophical to seek for any other Origin of the World, or to pretend that it might arise out of a Chaos by the mere Laws of Nature; though being once form'd, it may continue by those Laws for many Ages.
119. oldal - ... malignant feeling, there is a sore burden of disquietude — an unhappiness tumultuating in the heart, and visibly pictured on the countenance. The ferocious tyrant who has only to issue forth his mandate, and strike dead at pleasure the victim of his wrath, with any circumstance too of barbaric caprice and cruelty, which his fancy in the very waywardness of passion unrestrained and power unbounded might suggest to him — he may be said to have experienced through life a thousand gratifications,...
84. oldal - Thus, that principle by which we survey, and either approve or disapprove our own heart, temper, and actions, is not only to be considered as what is in its turn to have some influence ; which may be said of every passion, of the lowest appetites : but likewise as being superior ; as from its very nature manifestly claiming superiority over all others ; insomuch that you cannot form a notion of this faculty, conscience, without taking in judgment...
85. oldal - ... you cannot form a notion of this faculty, conscience, without taking in judgment, direction, superintendency. This is a constituent part of the idea, that is, of the faculty itself: and to preside and govern, from the very economy and constitution of man, belongs to it. Had it strength, as it has right; had it power, as it has manifest authority, it would absolutely govern the world.
148. oldal - I have already more than once repeated, that the suggesting influence, which is usually expressed in the phrase association of ideas, though that very improper phrase would seem to limit it to our ideas or conceptions only, and has unquestionably produced a mistaken belief of this partial operation of a general influence, — is not limited to...