 | Augustus Henry Fitzroy Duke of Grafton, John Wilkes - 1769 - 348 pages
...in material nature and the world of fpirits, which. never entered into the thoughts of philofophers. The end of knowledge there is not to get a name, or form a new feet, but to adore the power and wifdom of the Deity. This kills pride, but heightens happinefs and... | |
 | 1772 - 302 pages
...in material nature and the world of fpirits, which never entered into the thoughts of philofophers. The end of knowledge there is not to get a name, or form a new feet, but to adore the power and wifdomof the! Deity. This kills pride, but heightens happinefs and... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1830 - 516 pages
...care of a diseased carcase. Yet, I may linger on a while, as I can still walk a little through the room, and divert myself now and then with reading,...satisfied by a Being, himself infinitely rational. I have long been aware, that nothing can go beyond the grave, but the habits of virtue and innocence. There... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1835 - 592 pages
...world of spirits, which never entered into the thoughts of philosopher!. The end of knowledge then, is not to get a name, or form a new sect, but to adore...infinitely rational I have been long aware that nothing ran go beyond the grave, but habits of virtue and innocence. There ii no distinction in that world,... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson - 1852 - 338 pages
...world of spirits, which never entered into the thoughts of philosophers. The end of knowledge then, is not to get a name, or form a new sect, but to adore...kills pride, but heightens happiness and pleasure. AH our rational desires, because rational, must be satisfied by a being, himself infinitely rational.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 378 pages
...world of spirits, which never entered into the thoughts of philosophers. The end of knowledge then, is not to get a name, or form a new sect, but to adore...the Deity. This kills pride, but heightens happiness ana pleasure. All our rational desires, because rational, must be satisfied by a being, himself infinitely... | |
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... me, or rather I look upon it with pleasure. I have long and often considered, and written, down the advantages of a separate state. I shall soon know more than all the men I leave behind me ; wonders in material nature, and the world of spirits, which... 