The Works of George Berkeley, Volumen3

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Clarendon Press, 1871
 

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Página 230 - Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first Acts already past, A fifth shall close the Drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last. A SERMON,
Página 181 - live, and move, and have our being. He is the fountain of life. He preservcth man and beast. He giveth food to all flesh. In His hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind. The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich. He bringeth low and lifteth up. He
Página 59 - So that as tennis is a game of no use in itself, but of great use in respect it maketh a quick eye and a body ready to put itself into all postures : so in the Mathematics, that use which is collateral and intervenient is no less worthy than that which is principal and intended.
Página 436 - yard of the man void of understanding; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and
Página 354 - from thriving, by that cynical content in dirt and beggary which they possess to a degree beyond any other people in Christendom ? 20. Whether the creating of wants be not the likeliest way to produce industry in a people ? And whether, if our peasants were accustomed to eat beef and wear shoes, they would not be more industrious
Página 181 - the heavens. He hath founded the earth and hung it upon nothing. He hath shut up the sea with doors, and said, Hitherto shalt thou come and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed. The
Página 141 - By Anthony Collins—published early in argument, and says,—* By free-thinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavouring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature of the evidence for or against it, and in judging of it according to the seeming force or weakness of the evidence.
Página 251 - out of thine own eye ; and then shall thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.'—MATT. c. vn. v. 5. 1734CONTENTS.
Página 105 - who are thus commanded to promote, by the ' concurring actions of each individual,' the ' general wellbeing of all men, of all nations, of all ages, of the world. The rational deduction of the goodness of actions is thus founded on their essential fitness to promote the wellbeing of mankind.' Submission to the supreme authority is afterwards dedu-
Página 245 - will give him a charge to take the spoil, and to take the prey, to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

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