A Manual of the History of PhilosophyH. G. Bohn, 1852 - 532 pages |
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Page 370 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 492 - Théorie du pouvoir politique et religieux dans la société civile, démontrée par le raisonnement et par l'histoire, par M.
Page 159 - But a strange thing happens : the great works of the thinkers and poets, penetrated with admiration for the classics, are in the vulgar tongue ; and the same phenomenon occurs, at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries, in all the countries of lettered Europe.
Page 486 - Faculties which perceive the relations of external objects : 27, Locality ; 28, Number ; 29, Order; 30, Eventuality ; 31, Time ; 32, Tune ; 33, Language.
Page 274 - He was born at Nola, in the kingdom of Naples, about the middle of the sixteenth century. Little is known of his early life. He professed himself a Dominican, but the year and place of his noviciate are not known.
Page 370 - ... out repeated refusals every time he was importuned by the President and his Cabinet ; hence the latter said he consented. But they were the ones who misrepresented, and not he. If anyone chooses to believe a lie because Mr. Durkee holds his tongue, the latter is not to blame. He is as " wise as a serpent, and as harmless as a dove," and always truthful, when he opens his mouth.
Page 492 - Essai analytique sur les lois naturelles de l'ordre social ou, du pouvoir, du ministre et du sujet dans la société, 1800.
Page 331 - A letter to the learned Mr. Henry Dodwell, containing some remarks on a pretended demonstration of the immateriality and natural immortality of the soul, in Mr.
Page 371 - Observations on Man, his Frame, his Duty, and his Expectations, in two parts.
Page 331 - A Letter to Mr Dodwell; wherein all the Arguments in his Epistolary Discourse against the Immortality of the Soul are particularly answered, and the Judgment of the Fathers concerning that Matter truly represented.