Essays and Treatises on Moral, Political, and Various Philosophical Subjects, 2. köidetranslator; and sold, 1799 |
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absolutely according actions afflux alterations annulled apodictical Author beautiful belief bottom cause cavities cerning charms chiefly cognition conception concussions conformable connexion consequence consists contemplation contingent disposition Divine earth earthquakes existence fair sex feeling former greatest ground happen Hence honour human inclination inflammation internal possibility judge judgment Julius Cæsar Kingdom of Fez laws of nature liberty likewise manner matter means ment merely metaphysic mind mode moon moral bad moral religion motion mountains namely natural philosophy necessary necessity neral never noble object observation occasion order of nature origin perceived perfection perhaps philosophy plane of reference planets Plato position predicates presupposed principle priori proof properties reason reference rence render reverence rience rules sentiment sibility sort species sublime substances supernatural Supreme taste theodicée thereby therein thought tical tion tural ture understanding unity universal laws virtue whole wisdom
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Page 142 - O shame to men ! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace ; and, God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife, Among themselves, and levy cruel wars, Wasting the earth, each other to destroy : As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enow besides, That day and night for his destruction wait.
Page 210 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Page 38 - In history they will not fill their heads, with battles, nor in geography with fortresses, for it becomes them just as little to reek of gunpowder as it does the males to reek of musk. It appears to be a malicious stratagem of men that they have wanted to influence the fair sex to this perverted taste. For, well aware of their weakness before her natural charms and of the fact that a single sly glance sets them more in confusion than the most difficult problem of science, so soon as woman enters...
Page 52 - Finally age, the great destroyer of beauty, threatens all these charms; and if it proceeds according to the natural order of things, gradually the sublime and noble qualities must take the place of the beautiful, in order to make a person always worthy of a greater respect as she ceases to be attractive. In my opinion, the whole perfection of the fair sex in the bloom of years...
Page 410 - They die ; but in their room, as they forewarn, Wolves shall succeed for teachers, grievous wolves, Who all the sacred mysteries of heav'n To their own vile advantages shall turn Of lucre and ambition...
Page 201 - Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him? He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
Page 422 - And the angel lifted up his hand to heaven, and sware by Him that liveth for ever and ever...
Page 54 - ... it comes to such a state that the question is of the right of the superior to command, then the case is already utterly corrupted; for where the whole union is in reality erected solely upon inclination, it is already half destroyed as soon as the "duty" begins to make itself heard. The presumption of the woman in this harsh tone is extremely ugly, and of the man is base and contemptible in the highest degree. However, the wise order of things so brings it about that all these niceties and delicacies...
Page 38 - ... sufficient reason or the monads she will know only so much as is needed to perceive the salt in a satire which the insipid grubs of our sex have censured. The fair can leave Descartes his vortices to whirl forever without troubling themselves about them, even though the suave Fontenelle wished to afford them company among the planets; and the attraction of their charms loses none of its strength even if they know nothing of what Algarotti has taken the trouble to sketch out for their benefit...
Page 74 - ... the very soles of his feet jet-black; a direct proof, that what he said was stupid. Among all savages there are none, by whom the female sex are more really respected, than by those of Canada. In this they perhaps surpass even our civilized part of the world. Not as if one did the women there humble services; these are but compliments. No, they actually command. They assemble and deliberate concerning the most weighty affairs of the nation, concerning peace and war.