Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryVicesimus Knox J. Johnson, 1808 - 1 من الصفحات An anthology of prose passages primarily from Greek, Roman, and English authors. |
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... causes , a cause of motion , and a cause of sensation , a cause of agitating humours , and a cause of reflecting , that there is body , and that there is spirit . But , in my opinion , those philosophers , who are best acquainted with ...
... causes , a cause of motion , and a cause of sensation , a cause of agitating humours , and a cause of reflecting , that there is body , and that there is spirit . But , in my opinion , those philosophers , who are best acquainted with ...
الصفحة 331
... cause which was able to give them birth , can annihilate them , or change their nature . In truth , the design and will of the Crea- tor is the only physical cause of the ge- neral economy of the world ; the only physical cause of every ...
... cause which was able to give them birth , can annihilate them , or change their nature . In truth , the design and will of the Crea- tor is the only physical cause of the ge- neral economy of the world ; the only physical cause of every ...
الصفحة 478
... cause . It is hard for him , who reasons attentively , to refer to chance any superla- tive production . Effects indeed strike us , when we are not thinking about the cause ; yet may we be assured , if we reflect , that a cause there is ...
... cause . It is hard for him , who reasons attentively , to refer to chance any superla- tive production . Effects indeed strike us , when we are not thinking about the cause ; yet may we be assured , if we reflect , that a cause there is ...
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On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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