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... able accuracy , a distinction leading to important practical consequences . By a Matter of Fact I understand anything of which we obtain a conviction from our internal consciousness , or any individual event or phenomenon which is the ...
... able accuracy , a distinction leading to important practical consequences . By a Matter of Fact I understand anything of which we obtain a conviction from our internal consciousness , or any individual event or phenomenon which is the ...
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... able to verify for themselves . With the view of arriving at the best means for the accomplishment of this desirable end , we shall proceed , first , to indicate the extent of the opinions necessarily founded on authority , and shall ...
... able to verify for themselves . With the view of arriving at the best means for the accomplishment of this desirable end , we shall proceed , first , to indicate the extent of the opinions necessarily founded on authority , and shall ...
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... able actually to recal . Without this , the greatest part of men must be either very scep- tics , or change every moment , and yield themselves up to whoever , having lately studied the question , offers them arguments , which , for ...
... able actually to recal . Without this , the greatest part of men must be either very scep- tics , or change every moment , and yield themselves up to whoever , having lately studied the question , offers them arguments , which , for ...
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... able to examine the question for ourselves ; and is far preferable to the alternative of a temporary suspension of belief , ( which in practical matters may tend to serious evils , ) or subjection to a sophistical advocate whose ...
... able to examine the question for ourselves ; and is far preferable to the alternative of a temporary suspension of belief , ( which in practical matters may tend to serious evils , ) or subjection to a sophistical advocate whose ...
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... able to estimate his individual qualifications , as a testifier or relator . Whereas , in the case of an argument , its conclusiveness , considered without reference to the truth of its premises , and judged merely by logical rules , is ...
... able to estimate his individual qualifications , as a testifier or relator . Whereas , in the case of an argument , its conclusiveness , considered without reference to the truth of its premises , and judged merely by logical rules , is ...
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Page 92 - HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an Article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 84 - THE Church hath power to decree Rites or Ceremonies, and authority in Controversies of Faith : And yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordain any thing that is contrary to God's Word written, neither may it so expound one place of Scripture, that it be repugnant to another. Wherefore, although the Church be a witness and a keeper of holy Writ, yet, as it ought not...
Page 94 - They also are to be had accursed that presume to say, That every man shall be saved by the Law or Sect which he professeth, so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that Law, and the light of Nature. For Holy Scripture doth set out unto us only the Name of Jesus Christ, whereby men must be saved.
Page 408 - So great is the force of laws, and of particular forms of government, and so little dependence have they on the humours and tempers of men, that consequences almost as general and certain may sometimes be deduced from them, as any which the mathematical sciences afford us.
Page 29 - One science only will one genius fit ; So vast is art, so narrow human wit : Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft in those confined to single parts.
Page 339 - All foreigners remark, that the knowledge of the common people of England is greater than that of any other vulgar. This superiority we undoubtedly owe to the rivulets of intelligence, which are continually trickling among us, which every one may catch, and of which every one partakes.
Page 92 - It is not necessary that traditions and ceremonies be in all places one, or utterly like ; for at all times they have been divers, and may be changed according to the diversities of countries, times, and men's manners, so that nothing be ordained against God's Word.
Page 11 - So that a great part of mankind are, by the natural and unalterable state of things in this world, and the constitution of human affairs, unavoidably given over to invincible ignorance of those proofs on which others build, and which are necessary to establish those opinions...
Page 92 - Wherefore things ordained by them as necessary to salvation have neither strength nor authority, unless it may be declared that they be taken out of holy Scripture.
Page 196 - We are all shortsighted, and very often see but one side of a matter ; our views are not extended to all that has a connexion with it. From this defect I think no man is free. We see but in part, and we know but in part, and therefore it is no wonder we conclude not right from our partial views.