An Essay on the Origin of Evil, Volume 1W. Thurlbourn & J. Woodyer, 1758 - Fall of man |
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Page xiv
... pains be has taken to vindicate it from the leaft cavil ; in which view all that be has wrote would make a much larger Volume than his first . It was my intention to reduce it to as fmall a compafs as poffible , by inferting no more ...
... pains be has taken to vindicate it from the leaft cavil ; in which view all that be has wrote would make a much larger Volume than his first . It was my intention to reduce it to as fmall a compafs as poffible , by inferting no more ...
Page xx
... PAIN , and SIN may enter into a world made by the most wife good and powerful Author , and that its Origin may be accounted for without calling in the affistance of an Evil Principle . 15. ' Tis plain that we are tied down to this Earth ...
... PAIN , and SIN may enter into a world made by the most wife good and powerful Author , and that its Origin may be accounted for without calling in the affistance of an Evil Principle . 15. ' Tis plain that we are tied down to this Earth ...
Page xxiii
... Pain which arifes from Senfation ; i . e . Why any particular Motion produced in our Bodies fhould be accompanied with Pain rather than Pleasure , and vice versa . But this Account feems ftill infufficient , rather cutting the Knot than ...
... Pain which arifes from Senfation ; i . e . Why any particular Motion produced in our Bodies fhould be accompanied with Pain rather than Pleasure , and vice versa . But this Account feems ftill infufficient , rather cutting the Knot than ...
Page xxix
... Pain ; fome are convenient , others inconvenient for a Society ; fome are for the good of Mankind ; others tend to the detriment of it ; therefore those are to be chofen which tend to the good of Mankind , the others to be avoided ...
... Pain ; fome are convenient , others inconvenient for a Society ; fome are for the good of Mankind ; others tend to the detriment of it ; therefore those are to be chofen which tend to the good of Mankind , the others to be avoided ...
Page xxxi
... Pain , but capable alfo of foreseeing this Pleafure and Pain in the future confequences of Things and Actions ; and as he is capable of knowing , fo alfo of governing or directing the Causes of them , and thereby in a great meafure ...
... Pain , but capable alfo of foreseeing this Pleafure and Pain in the future confequences of Things and Actions ; and as he is capable of knowing , fo alfo of governing or directing the Causes of them , and thereby in a great meafure ...
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Page 126 - The whole chasm in nature, from a plant to a man, is filled up with diverse kinds of creatures, rising one over another, by such a gentle and easy ascent, that the little transitions and deviations from one species to another are almost insensible.
Page 108 - ... to virtue, and knowledge to knowledge; carries in it something wonderfully agreeable to that ambition which is natural to the mind of man.
Page 139 - Existence is a blessing to those beings only which are endowed with perception ; and is in a manner thrown away upon dead matter, any farther than as it is subservient to beings which are conscious of their existence.
Page 171 - Labour or exercise ferments the humours, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigour, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
Page l - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Page 139 - On the other hand, if we look into the more bulky parts of nature, we see the seas, lakes, and rivers, teeming with numberless kinds of living creatures.
Page 126 - If the scale of being rises by such a regular progress so high as man, we may, by a parity of reason, suppose that it still proceeds gradually through those beings which are of a superior nature to him ; since there is an infinitely greater space and room for different degrees of perfection between the Supreme Being and man, than between man and the most despicable insect.
Page 125 - It is wonderful to observe, by what a gradual progress the world of life advances through a prodigious variety of species, before a creature is formed that is complete in all its senses; and even among these there is such a different degree of perfection...
Page 125 - Infinite goodness is of so communicative a nature, that it seems to delight in the conferring of existence upon every degree of perceptive being. As this is a speculation, which I have often pursued with great pleasure to myself, I shall enlarge farther upon it, by considering that part of the scale of beings which comes within our knowledge.
Page xxii - ... whenever this end is not perceived, they are to be accounted for from the association of ideas and may properly enough be called habits.