The Works of George Berkeley ...: Philosophical works, 1732-33: Alciphron. The theory of visionClarendon Press, 1901 |
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الصفحة 3 - ALCIPHRON OR THE MINUTE PHILOSOPHER IN SEVEN DIALOGUES CONTAINING AN APOLOGY FOR THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION AGAINST THOSE WHO ARE CALLED FREE-THINKERS ' They have forsaken me the Fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.'—JER. ii. 13
الصفحة 277 - a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the Very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from "experience" can possibly be imagined. . . . The Indian prince who refused to believe the first relations concerning the effects of frost reasoned justly.
الصفحة 8 - religion, at a time when, according to Bishop Butler, it had come ' to be taken for granted that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious '.
الصفحة 160 - The contrary of every matter of fact is still possible because it can never imply a contradiction. That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation that it will rise.
الصفحة 173 - Euph. That is really and in truth my opinion ; and it should be yours too, if you are consistent with yourself, and abide by your own definition of language. Since you cannot deny that the great Mover and Author of nature constantly explaineth Himself to the eyes of men by the sensible intervention of arbitrary signs, which have
الصفحة 146 - understood the love and desire of virtuous enjoyment, or of the very practice and exercise of virtue in another life ; an expectation or hope of this kind is so far from being derogatory from virtue that it is an evidence of our loving it the more sincerely, and for its own sake.
الصفحة 303 - more. To any one who considers that, on digging into the earth, such quantities of shells, and, in some places, bones and horns of animals are found sound and entire, after having lain there in all probability some thousands of years ; it should seem probable that gems,
الصفحة 169 - is several miles distant. Ale. Why so ? Euph. Because a little round object is one thing, and a. great square object is another. Is it not ? Ale. I cannot deny it. Euph. Tell me, is not the visible appearance alone the proper object of sight ? Ale. It is. What think you now (said