Sämmtliche Schriften, Band 7

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in der Vossischen Buchhandlung, 1792

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Seite 175 - All are but parts of one ftupendous whole, Whofe body Nature is, and God the foul : That, chang'd thro...
Seite 147 - Were we to press, inferior might on ours; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.
Seite 180 - you have made my fyftem as clear as " I ought to have done, and could not. " It is indeed the fame fyftem as mine, " but illuftrated with a ray of your own,. •' as they fay our natural body is the " fame ftill when it is glorified.
Seite 186 - Much is alleged in answer to show why Nature errs, and how she came thus impotent and erring from an unerring hand. But I deny she errs ; and when she seems most ignorant or ' perverse in her productions, I assert her even then as wise and provident as in her goodliest works.
Seite 37 - Methaphj'sique on n'a pas l'avantage des Mathématiciens de pouvoir fixer les idées par des figures; il faut que la rigueur du raisonnement y supplée, laquelle ne peut guère être obtenue en ces matières, qu'en observant la forme Logique.
Seite 195 - I have only one piece of mercy to beg of you ; do not laugh at my gravity, but permit me to wear the beard of a philosopher, till I pull it off, and make a jest of it myself.
Seite 30 - C'est cette espèce de justice qui n'a point pour but l'amendement ni l'exemple , ni même la réparation du mal. Cette justice n'est fondée que dans la convenance , qui demande une certaine satisfaction pour l'expiation d'une mauvaise action.
Seite 180 - It is indeed the fame fyftem as mine, " but illuftrated with a ray of your own,. •' as they fay our natural body is the " fame ftill when it is glorified. I am " fure I like it better than I did before, " and fo will every man elfe. I know " I meant juft what you explain; but I " did not explain my own meaning fo
Seite 138 - Then, in the fcale of reas'ning life, 'tis plain, There muft be, fome where, fuch a rank as Man; And all the queftion (wrangle...
Seite 99 - ... mouvemens, qui font les feuls dont il refte des marques, lui feront éternellement honneur. On l'accufe de n'avoir été qu'un grand & rigide obfervateur du Droit naturel. Ses Pafteurs lui en ont fait des réprimandes publiques & inutiles. On l'accufe auili d'avoir aimé l'argent.

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