The Improvement of Human Reason: Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn YokdhanE. Powell, 1708 - 195 páginas |
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... queftion but they had mistaken the Senfe of the Author in many places . Be- fides , obferving that a great many of my Friends whom I had a defire to oblige , and other other Perfons whom I would willingly in- cline to a PREFACE .
... queftion but they had mistaken the Senfe of the Author in many places . Be- fides , obferving that a great many of my Friends whom I had a defire to oblige , and other other Perfons whom I would willingly in- cline to a PREFACE .
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... defires are rais'd to a good pitch , and he is competently well exercis'd in that way , there will appear to . him fome Small glimmerings of the Truth , as it were flashes of Lightning , very delightful , which just fbine upon him , and ...
... defires are rais'd to a good pitch , and he is competently well exercis'd in that way , there will appear to . him fome Small glimmerings of the Truth , as it were flashes of Lightning , very delightful , which just fbine upon him , and ...
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... defire that you mayn't ftop here , but afpire to a loftier degree : for this is fo far from being able to bring you to thofe heights , that is not fufficient to fave you . Now I would lead you by the fame paths which I have walk'd in ...
... defire that you mayn't ftop here , but afpire to a loftier degree : for this is fo far from being able to bring you to thofe heights , that is not fufficient to fave you . Now I would lead you by the fame paths which I have walk'd in ...
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... de- fire , juft fuch an one as you could wish ; and I hope that I fhall lead you in the right way , free from Evils and Dangers : and really I perceive fome Glimmerings now , by the help of which I fhall inflame your Defire , and put ...
... de- fire , juft fuch an one as you could wish ; and I hope that I fhall lead you in the right way , free from Evils and Dangers : and really I perceive fome Glimmerings now , by the help of which I fhall inflame your Defire , and put ...
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... defire to fome , and an averfion to others , even when they were abfent . In the mean while he confider'd all the feveral forts of Animals , and faw that they were all clo- thed either with Hair , Wool , or feveral forts of Feathers ...
... defire to fome , and an averfion to others , even when they were abfent . In the mean while he confider'd all the feveral forts of Animals , and faw that they were all clo- thed either with Hair , Wool , or feveral forts of Feathers ...
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Página 177 - If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
Página 170 - And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life : that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them...
Página 177 - My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house. With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold...
Página 116 - ... too near any other Plant, he would remove that which hindred it if possible, yet so as not to hurt either; or if it was in danger of dying for want of Moisture, he took what care he could to water it constantly. Or if he saw any Creature pursu'd by any wild Beast, or entangled in a Snare, or prick'd with Thorns, or that had gotten any thing hurtful fallen into its Eyes or Ears, or was hungry or thirsty, he took all possible care to relieve it. And when he saw any Water-course stopp'd by any Stone,...
Página 30 - ... the Sea, sufficient to secure him from any future danger of such another Flood. § 5. The Violence of the Waves had loosned the Joints of the Ark; the Boy was Hungry and Cry'd. It happen'd fortunately at that Juncture of time, that a Roe wandring about the Island in search of her Fawn, which straying was devoured by an Eagle, heard the Boy cry, and following the voice (imagining it to have been her Fawn) came up to the Ark, which she immediately attack'd, and what with her beating it with her...
Página 132 - ... from one Glass to another, according to the Order of the Spheres. And he saw in every one of these Essences, such Beauty, Splendor, Pleasure and Joy, as Eye hath not seen, nor Ear heard, nor hath it enter'd into the Heart of Man to conceive; and so downwards, till he came to the lower World, subject to Generation and Corruption, which comprehends all that which is contained within the Sphere of the Moon.
Página 54 - Beast and ty'd him down, so that he could not stir, and dissected him after the same manner he had dissected the Roe, till he came to the Heart; and Essaying the left Ventricle first, and opening it, he perceiv'd it was full of an Airy Vapour, which look'd like a little Mist or white Cloud, and putting in his Finger, he found it hotter than he could well endure it, and immediately the Creature Dyed.
Página 83 - ... consider before as Earth, Water, Air, Plants, Animals and the like, were all of them so contain'd in it, as never to go out of its Bounds: And that the whole was like One Animal, in which the Luminaries represented the Senses; The Spheres so join'd and compacted together, answer'd to the Limbs; and the Sublunary World, to the Belly, in which the Excrements and Humors are contain'd, and which oftentimes breeds Animals, as the Greater World.
Página 170 - SEEK the LAW at his Mouth : for he is the Meffenger of the Lord of Hofts.
Página 132 - We are told [ that ] the good things which God hath prepared for them that love him are such as eye hath not seen nor ear heard, nor hath it enter'd into the heart of man to conceive.