 Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, viz. that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty...  The Works of George Berkeley - Page 28by George Berkeley - 1820Full view - About this book
 | New Church gen. confer - 1875 - 618 pages
...majestically, and with fullest assurance : " All the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, — in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of...world — have not any subsistence without a mind ; there being (essc) is to be perceived or known ; consequently, so long as they are not actually perceived... | |
 | Thomas Andros - 1820 - 142 pages
...take this important one to be, that all the choir of heaven, and furniture of earth — in a word, all those bodies, which compose the mighty frame of...the world, have not any subsistence without a mind." According to this theory, God never created any material world. All we read of the work of creation,... | |
 | Frederick Beasley - 1822 - 584 pages
...this important one to be, to wit, that all the quire of heaven, and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of...the world, have not any subsistence without a mind, and that their being is to be perceived or known." This, if established would certainly be a much greater... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1827 - 706 pages
...take this important one to be, that all the choir of heaven, and furniture of the earth ; in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of...the world, have not any subsistence without a mind." Princ. § 6. The principle from which this important conclusion is obviously deduced, is laid down... | |
 | 1835 - 700 pages
...The conclusion is then drawn, " that all the choir of heaven, and furniture of the earth, in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without the mind ; that their being is to be perceived or known •" in short, that they are nothing but ideas.... | |
 | Ernst Reinhold - 1829 - 612 pages
...this important one to lie, »:/;. that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth , in a won! all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any «utuistence without a mind , that their tsse is to be perceiv'd or known ; that consequently so long... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 334 pages
...take this important one to be, that all the choir of heaven, and furniture of earth, — in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of...world, — have not any subsistence without a mind." This deduction, however singular, was readily made from the theory of our perceptions laid down by... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 332 pages
...take this important one to be, that all the choir of heaven, and furniture of earth, — in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of...world, — have not any subsistence without a mind." This deduction, however singular, was readily made from the theory of our perceptions laid down by... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 538 pages
...this important one to be, viz. that all the choir of heaven, and furniture of the earth, in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of...have not any subsistence without a mind, that their esse is to be perceived or known; that consequently, so long as they are not actually perceived by... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 526 pages
...this important one to be, viz. that all the choir of heaven, and furniture of the earth, in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of...have not any subsistence without a mind, that their esseis to be perceived or known; that consequently, so long as they are not actually perceived by me,... | |
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