French and English Philosophers: Descartes, Rousseau, Voltaire, Hobbes: With Introductions, Notes and IllustrationsP.F. Collier & Son, 1910 - 434 من الصفحات |
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able actions animals appear Arianism authority beasts believe blood body called cause celestial matter Church of England Circassians common conceive consequently contrary covenant Descartes desire discourse discover divine earth endeavour England English equal error evil existence faculties fancy fear France give greater happy hath heart heaven Henry VII honour human ideas imagination inequality infinite invention judge judgment Julius Cæsar justice kind King law of Nature less liberty living Lord Lord Bacon Lord Bolingbroke Louis XIV mankind manner matter means mind Molière motion necessary never objects obliged observed opinion passions perceive persons philosophers planets possessed pretended principles Quakers reason received religion savage sense sensible signify Sir Isaac Newton small-pox soul speak species speech suppose thee things THOMAS HOBBES thou thought tion true truth understanding virtue whereof William Penn words
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الصفحة 407 - A law of nature, lex naturalis, is a precept or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man is forbidden to do that which is destructive of his life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same; and to omit that by which he thinketh it may be best preserved.
الصفحة 136 - No traveller returns, — puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus, conscience does make cowards of us all ; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought ; And enterprises of great pith and moment, With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.
الصفحة 135 - tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die: to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil...
الصفحة 67 - I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance; but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear; he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire...
الصفحة 202 - THE first man who. having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
الصفحة 355 - is the passion which maketh those ' grimaces ' called ' laughter ' ; and is caused either by some sudden act of their own that pleaseth them, or by the apprehension of some deformed thing in another by comparison whereof they suddenly applaud themselves.
الصفحة 209 - ... a just mean between the indolence of the primitive state and the petulant activity of our egoism, must have been the happiest and most stable of epochs.
الصفحة 135 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes...
الصفحة 137 - tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
الصفحة 418 - Therefore before the names of just, and unjust can have place, there must be ' some coercive power, to compel men equally to the performance of their covenants, by the terror of some punishment, greater than the benefit they expect by the breach of their covenant ; and to make good that propriety, which by mutual contract men acquire, in recompense of the universal right they abandon : and such power there is none before the erection of a commonwealth.