 | David Hume - 1779 - 272 sider
...them for their I* own happinefs ! How contemptible or odious to the fpectator ! The whole prefents nothing but the idea of a blind Nature, impregnated...principle, and pouring forth from her lap, without difcernment or parental care, her maimed and abortive children. HERE the MANICHJEAN fyftern occurs... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1779 - 508 sider
...of them for their own happinefs ! Howi contemptible or odious to the fpeclator ! The whole prefents nothing but the idea of a blind nature, impregnated...principle, and pouring forth from her lap, without difcernment or parental care, her maimed and abortive children. • Bad appearances, fays Philo, can... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1787 - 602 sider
...odious, to " the fpectator. The whole prefents no" thing but the idea of a blind nature, im* " pregnated by a great vivifying principle, "and pouring forth from her lap, without . "• difcernment, or parental care, her maimed " and abortive children." Compare this with the language... | |
 | David Hume - 1788 - 600 sider
...of them for their own happinefs ! How contemptible or odious to the fpeclator ! The whole prefents nothing but the idea of a blind Nature, impregnated...principle, and pouring forth from her lap, without difcernment or parental pare, her maimed and abortive children. Here the MANICHAAN fyftem occurs as... | |
 | David Hume - 1826 - 584 sider
...insufficient all of them for their own happiness ! How contemptible or odious to the spectator ! The whole' presents nothing but the idea of a blind Nature, impregnated...or parental care, her maimed and abortive children ! Here the Manichacan system occurs as a proper hypothesis to solve the difficulty : and no doubt,... | |
 | David Hume - 1826 - 596 sider
...insufficient all of them for their own happiness ! How contemptible or odious to the spectator ! The whole presents nothing but the idea of a blind Nature, impregnated...great vivifying principle, and pouring forth from her Ian, without discernment or parental care, her maimed and abortive children ! Here the Manicbaaan system... | |
 | 1882 - 324 sider
...all of them for their own happiness ! How contemptible or odious to the spectator ! The whole present nothing but the idea of a blind nature, impregnated...or parental care, her maimed and abortive children ! Here the Manichsean system occurs as a proper hypothesis to solve the difficulty, and no doubt, in... | |
 | David Hume - 1874 - 544 sider
...insufficient all of them for their own happiness ! How contemptible or odious to the spectator ! The whole presents nothing but the idea of a blind Nature, impregnated...or parental care, her maimed and abortive children ! Here the MANICH^EAN system occurs as a proper hypothesis to solve the difficulty : and no doubt,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1876 - 504 sider
...establish, the orthodox conclusion as to the divine attributes. 23. The universe, in short, suggests to us a 'blind nature, impregnated by a great vivifying...discernment or parental care, her maimed and abortive children.'3 Shall we adopt the Manichean principle as the best explanation of this strange mixture... | |
 | James Bowling Mozley - 1877 - 322 sider
...insufficient all of them for their own happiness ! How contemptible or odious to the spectator ! The whole presents nothing but the idea of a blind Nature, impregnated...or parental care, her maimed and abortive children ! Here the Manichsean system occurs as a proper hypothesis to solve the difficulty : and no doubt,... | |
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You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect a little more narrowly these living existences, the only beings worth regarding. How hostile and destructive to each other! How insufficient all of them for their own happiness! How contemptible... 
