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Page 77
It must be confessed in this case , so many thousands of . years are to the
imagination as a kind of eternity , though in reality they do not bear so great a
proportion to that duration which is to follow them , as an unit does to the greatest
number ...
It must be confessed in this case , so many thousands of . years are to the
imagination as a kind of eternity , though in reality they do not bear so great a
proportion to that duration which is to follow them , as an unit does to the greatest
number ...
Page 126
PHILOSOPHY , and indeed common sense , naturally throws eternity under two
divisions ; which we may call in English , that eternity which is past , and that
eternity which is to come . The learned terms of ceternitas a parte ante , and ...
PHILOSOPHY , and indeed common sense , naturally throws eternity under two
divisions ; which we may call in English , that eternity which is past , and that
eternity which is to come . The learned terms of ceternitas a parte ante , and ...
Page 127
to high as we please , and employ our being to that eternity which is to come , in
adding millions of years to millions of years , and we can never come up any
fountain - head of duration , to any beginning in eternity : but at the same time we
are ...
to high as we please , and employ our being to that eternity which is to come , in
adding millions of years to millions of years , and we can never come up any
fountain - head of duration , to any beginning in eternity : but at the same time we
are ...
Page 128
SECONDLY , That therefore some being must have existed from all eternity .
THIRDLY , That whatever exists after the manner of created beings , or according
to any notions which we have of existence , could not have existed from eternity .
SECONDLY , That therefore some being must have existed from all eternity .
THIRDLY , That whatever exists after the manner of created beings , or according
to any notions which we have of existence , could not have existed from eternity .
Page 246
You have already considered that part of eternity which is past , and I wish you
would give us your thoughts upon that which is to come . ' Your readers will
perhaps receive greater pleasure from this view of eternity than the former , since
we ...
You have already considered that part of eternity which is past , and I wish you
would give us your thoughts upon that which is to come . ' Your readers will
perhaps receive greater pleasure from this view of eternity than the former , since
we ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | “The” Spectator ... Volume 8 of “The” Spectator |
| Publisher | J. Wood, 1761 |
| Original from | National Library of Israel |
| Digitized | 9 Sep 2019 |
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