 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1722 - 640 pages
...Conception how Matter might at fiift be made, and begin toexift, by the Power of that eternal firft Being: But to give Beginning and Being to a Spirit, would be found a more inconceivable Effect or Omnipotent Power. But this being what would perhaps lead us too far from the Notions oh which the... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1801 - 986 pages
...begin to exift, by the power of that eternal firil Being ; but to give beginning and being to a fpirit, would be found a more inconceivable effect of omnipotent power. But this being what woul^ perhaps leaii us too far from the notions on which the philofophy now in the world is built,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1811 - 590 pages
...raise •( our thoughts as far as they could reach, to a closer contemplation. - of things, we might be able to aim at some dim and seeming con'ception, how...matter might at first be made, and begin to exist by ' 'he power of that eternal first Being. — But this being what would " perhaps lead us too far from... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1816 - 644 pages
...and raise our thoughts as far as they could reach, to " a closer contemplation of things, we might be able to aim at " some dim and seeming conception,...by the power of that eternal first " Being. — But this being what would perhaps lead us too far " from the notions on which the philosophy now in the... | |
 | John Locke - 1816 - 1048 pages
...and raise our thoughts as far as they would reach, to a closer contemplation of things, we might be able to aim at some dim and seeming conception how...at first be made, and begin to exist by the power or that eternal first being : but to give beginning and being to a spirit, would bo found a more inconceivable... | |
 | Theology - 1825 - 600 pages
...and raise our thoughts as far as they fiould reach, to a closer contemplation of things, we might be able to aim at some dim and seeming conception how...to exist by the power of that Eternal first Being." If this be true and admissible respecting matter, we would submit to the pious enquirer, as a subject... | |
 | Theology - 1825 - 600 pages
...and raise our thoughts as far as they could reach, to a closer contemplation of things, we might be able to aim at some dim and seeming conception how...to exist by the power of that Eternal first Being." If this be true and admissible respecting matter, we would submit to- the pious enquirer, as a subject... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Act (Philosophy). - 1827 - 706 pages
...opinion in reality, as it seemed to do in words. Fourthly, By this system, we might possibly be enabled to aim at some dim and seeming conception how matter might at first be made and begin to exist ; but it would give no aid in conceiving how a spirit might be made. These are the characteristics... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1828 - 602 pages
...and raise our thoughts as far as they would reach, to a closer contemplation of things, we might be able to aim at some dim and seeming conception how...by the power of that eternal first Being ; but to gire beginning and being to a spirit, would be found a more inconceivable effect of omnipotent power.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 454 pages
...Boscovich, the authority of that law of our nature which leads us to ascribe to things external an indemight at first be made, and begin to exist by the power of that eternal first Being."— " But this being what would perhaps lead us too far from the notions on which the philosophy now in the world... | |
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Nay, possibly, if we would emancipate ourselves from vulgar notions, and raise our thoughts as far as they would reach, to a closer contemplation of things, we might be able to aim at some dim and seeming conception how matter might at first be made... 
