This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
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A16681 | He proclaimes his shadow to be a protection to all; but who is hee would chuse such a harbour to pay for his lodging with a scracht face? |
A69557 | But by the way; what if it be made appear, that there is really such a Power of Gravity perpetually acting in the constitution of the present System? |
A69557 | But how could Particles so widely dispersed combine into that closeness of Texture? |
A69557 | But then how rarely would there be any clashing at all? |
A69557 | But then why did they not continue their descent, till they were contiguous to the Sun; whither both Mutual Attraction and Impetus carried them? |
A69557 | How many thousand years might expire, before those solitary Vessels should happen to strike one against the other? |
A69557 | Is it not now utterly incredible, that our two Vessels, placed there Antipodes to each other, should ever happen to concur? |
A69557 | Now how is it possible that these things should be effected by any Material and Mechanical Agent? |
A69557 | Now what Natural Cause can overcome Nature it self? |
A69557 | Or were each formed in the same Orbs, in which they now move? |
A69557 | Was it nearer to the Sun, than the present distances are? |
A69557 | What is it that holds and keeps them in fixed Stations and Intervals against an incessant and inherent Tendency to desert them? |
A69557 | how very rarely in comparison to the number of Atoms? |
A38619 | 242 What hinders, but that we may reckon the Globe of the Earth, as well as the Moon amongst the Stars? |
A38619 | But to what end is her motion needfull? |
A38619 | God created the Heaven and the Earth? |
A38619 | How then can any one conceive Cold to be friendly to Moisture, and to be its inherent property? |
A38619 | If the Matter radically doth lye under the dissentions of contraries, must not the Form, which springs from her very root, feel the same portion? |
A38619 | Nay, would it not be stifled by them in its first birth and cradle? |
A38619 | Yea, who would expect an uniform, and not a monstrous issue from the heterogeneous seed of opposite parents? |
A38619 | whether I do not rather confirm than weaken her priviledges? |
A38619 | whether I do not rather honour than impayr her Royalty? |
A38619 | why may not she also stand fixt amongst so many fixt bodies? |
A38619 | why should we fancie an external cause of motion, which may be all this time intrinsecal? |
A01881 | And for Sacraments: Are not all the Creatures sanctified for mans vse? |
A01881 | And what is this in effect, but to be the visible signes of inuisible grace? |
A01881 | But how miserable were our condition? |
A01881 | But in this their seruice, or prayers, doe they vse no meanes of deuotion? |
A01881 | Doe you yet require some more particular notice, what they request in their prayers? |
A01881 | Here then Reason would faine know, whether the Creatures be the effects of another, or causes of themselues? |
A01881 | Now would you know the meaning and sence of these prayers? |
A01881 | Shall we yet come neerer, and shew how they partake in a true sacrifice? |
A01881 | Then it should seeme, nature becomes a petitioner: and to whom should she petition, but to that higher power which sits aboue nature? |
A01881 | To conclude: What can be more glorious to God, then that his praise should be set forth by all his Creatures? |
A01881 | What are the stones in the Temple, but indeed offered vp in sacrifice? |
A01881 | What were the sacrifices of the Iewes, but indeed the offering vp of dumbe Creatures? |
A01881 | but confusedly doe mumble vp, or bellow out their prayers, as if with their crying, and roaring, God could be praised? |
A01881 | haue they no respect to Gods magnificence? |
A01881 | not of her selfe, then surely of none but the Creatures; or who should make answer to this demand? |
A01881 | what a world of mischiefe would follow? |
A01881 | what greater deuotion, then by their example to stirre vp thy selfe? |
A64761 | All This from Thee my Ysca? |
A64761 | Besides, is it not most gross, That any should dog this Devil from Agrippa''s Lodging to Araris, where( sayth this Prelate) he plung''d himself? |
A64761 | But it will be question''d perhaps, how shall we approach to the Lord, and by what means may we finde him out? |
A64761 | Cur infinitis animos vestros curis exagiratis Miseri? |
A64761 | Did they not in their old age Inveterat ● dierum malorum, fall to Clipping and Counterfeiting of Coyne? |
A64761 | Did they obtain any thing by it but diseases& Poverty? |
A64761 | Didst run with ancient Kishon? |
A64761 | For there springs from Charitable works a Hope of Heaven, and who is he that will not gladly believe what he hopes to receive? |
A64761 | How comes he to praemeditate, and forecast? |
A64761 | How shall I recompence thy streams that keep Me and my Soul awak''d, when others sleep? |
A64761 | If Riches be a Possession to be desired in this Life, what is Richer then Wisedom that worketh all things? |
A64761 | In the first place then, I would faine know who taught the spider his Mathematicks? |
A64761 | It were a pretty vanity, to preach when Saint Paul is ascendent, and would not a Papist smile to have his Pope elected under Saint Peter? |
A64761 | Quae vestra vos excaecat Dementia, quaeso? |
A64761 | Quid ultra quaeritis Mortales anxii? |
A64761 | Quis haerebit amplius nisi lapis in Generatione Philosophicâ? |
A64761 | Quis( sayth he) in Henrici Cornelii Agrippae sedato vultu portentosum Ingenium latuisse crediderit? |
A64761 | Shall I seek thy forgotten Birth, and see What Dayes are spent since thy Nativity? |
A64761 | Shall the ax boast it self against Him that heweth therewith? |
A64761 | Tell me if you can, who taught the Hare to Countermarch, when she doubles her Trace in the pursuit to confound the sent, and puzzle her persecutors? |
A64761 | Thus have they all- to- be- divell''d him, but why may not Trueth run in verse, aswell as scandal? |
A64761 | Trust me thy waters yet: why, wilt not so? |
A64761 | Videtisnè relucens illud,& Inexpugnabile Castrum? |
A64761 | We should therefore examine who weaves the flowers of Vegetables? |
A64761 | What a clear, running Chrystall here I find? |
A64761 | Who would believe that in the History of Agar and Sarah, the mystery of both Testaments was couch''d, but that Saint Paul himself hath told us so? |
A64761 | Why should thy Flouds inrich those shores, that sin Against thy Liberty, and keep thee in? |
A64761 | and for a Period to their Memory did they not die in Despair, which is the Childe of Ignorance? |
A64761 | canst thou tell So many yeers as holy Hiddekel? |
A64761 | how comes he to lodge in the Center of his Web, that he may sally upon all Occasions to any part of the Circumference? |
A64761 | or shall the saw magnifie it self against him that shaketh it? |
A64761 | what will become of me? |
A64761 | who bolts the branches upwards, and threds( as it were) their Roots downwards? |
A64761 | who colours them without a pencill? |
A28982 | And now, if it be demanded, what Benefit may redound to a Reader from the Explications given in the foregoing Seventh Section? |
A28982 | And whether it performs its Operations by virtue of an internal Principle, such as the Spring of it ought to be? |
A28982 | And who informs it, whether that Place lies on this hand of it, or that hand of it, or above it, or beneath it? |
A28982 | And, Why does she furiously break in pieces a thin seal''d Bubble, such as I come from speaking of, to hinder a Vacuum? |
A28982 | But then I demand, Whence comes this Rebound, i. e. this Motion upwards? |
A28982 | Equidem Vnicum esse Deum summum atque magnificum, quis tam demens, tam mente captus, ut neg ● t esse certissimum? |
A28982 | Estque Dei sedes, ubi Terra,& Pontus,& Aer, Et Coelum,& Virtus: Superos quid quaerimus ultra? |
A28982 | For, who can clearly conceive an Order or Kind of Beings, that shall be Real Substances, and yet neither Corporeal nor Immaterial? |
A28982 | Fourthly, It may likewise be ask''d, How the Laws of Motion come to be observ''d or maintain''d by a Corporeal Being? |
A28982 | I demand then o ● Those, that assert such a Nature as is vulgarly describ''d, whether it be a Substance or an Accident? |
A28982 | If it be said to be an Immaterial Substance, I shall further ask, Whether it be a Created One, or not? |
A28982 | If the past Discourse give rise to a Question, Whether the World, and the Creatures that compose it, are as perfect as they could be made? |
A28982 | Quid est autem cur non existimes, in eo divini aliquid existere, quae Dei pars est? |
A28982 | Thirdly, He may also demand, Whence Nature, being a Material Substance, comes itself to have Motion, whereof''t is said to be the Principle? |
A28982 | To which, within a few lines after, he adds, Vis illam Naturam vocare? |
A28982 | Vis illam vocare Mundum? |
A28982 | Whether Nature be a Thing, or a Name? |
A28982 | and in general, from the Troublesome, as well as Free, Enquiry, whereof they make a considerable Part? |
A28982 | or of an external one, such as one may think the appended Weight? |
A37987 | * Ipse mundus quoties per noctem ignes suos fudit,& tantum stellarum innumerabilium refulsit, quem non intentum in se tenet? |
A37987 | * ● uid cùm ordo temporum ac frugum stabili varietate distingultur? |
A37987 | A great Naturalist takes special Notice of this, and cries out, † What is more Wonderful than the Waters standing in the Air? |
A37987 | And if it be ask''d, Whence is that Fewel for those vast Fires, which continually burn? |
A37987 | And if it be more sensible, what is the reason that according to them we have no perception of it? |
A37987 | And if the Ear shall say, because I am not the Eye, I am not of the Body; is it therefore not of the Body? |
A37987 | And the Permanency of this excellent Order shews its Author: Wherefore to that Question,* Whence doth it appear that there is a God? |
A37987 | And what are these Treasuries and Store- houses of Rain, Snow and Hail, but the Clouds, from whence these Meteors descend? |
A37987 | And what can we imagine this Government of Day and Night to be for but to serve the Necessities of Man? |
A37987 | And who knows not the Vsefulness of Plants as they are serviceable to Food and Physick? |
A37987 | And why doth the Theorist imprison the whole Element within the Earth? |
A37987 | And why were the Particles of the Teeth and Bones of Sea- Animals( which he likewise mentions) not dissevered? |
A37987 | And yet have we no apprehension at all of our continual capering about the Sun? |
A37987 | Are there any among the Vanities( i. e. the Idols) of the Gentiles that can cause Rain? |
A37987 | Are we presently apprehensive of the Earth''s shaking never so little under us? |
A37987 | Art not thou he, O Lord God? |
A37987 | But I ask, why might not these be of Primitive ordering? |
A37987 | But what is this to the changing the very Situation and Posture of the Earth? |
A37987 | But where God and Nature are not sparing, why should we be? |
A37987 | Can a Man perswade himself that the light Trepidation of this Element can be felt, and yet the rapid Circumvolution of it can not? |
A37987 | Can the most hardned Atheist perswade himself that these things were by chance, or from mere Matter moved? |
A37987 | Doth not the Troublesome Existence of these Creatures prove rather a Carelessness in the Divine Management than a Provident Care of the World? |
A37987 | For what is the Sea but that great Heap of Waters which was gather''d together by God''s Omnipotent Fiat at the Creation of the World? |
A37987 | For where should we fix its Throne, but in that Place where there is the original of all Sense and Motion? |
A37987 | Hast thou not poured me out as Milk, and curdled me like Cheese? |
A37987 | He might have said, so many Seas hanging in the Air? |
A37987 | How are those Flames fed? |
A37987 | How came they to escape crushing in their falling down and subsiding, which he supposeth? |
A37987 | How can a Wise Providence be proved from the Existence of such Creatures, as Foxes, Otters, Weesels, Pole- Cats, Rats and Mice? |
A37987 | How curious is the Architecture? |
A37987 | How fine and delicate a Thread doth it spin? |
A37987 | How frequent is David on this Theme, extolling God''s Providence in respect of the Creatures, the Heavens and Earth, Living and Inanimate things? |
A37987 | How is it proved hence that the First Earth had another Situation to the Sun, and had a perpetual Equinox and Spring? |
A37987 | How many Evils and Mischiefs would follow upon it? |
A37987 | How wonderfully artificial is the Spider''s Web or House, as''t is call''d in the Hebrew, Iob 8.14? |
A37987 | If Men were alike in Face as Sheep and some other Animals, what a strange Confusion would be in the World? |
A37987 | If a Man should be ask''d why Bays or Lawrel- leaves rather than others crackle in the Fire? |
A37987 | If it should be asked why the Cock rather than any other Fowl gives warning of the Sun''s appearing, and crows before it rises? |
A37987 | If the Foot shall say, because I am not the Hand, I am not of the Body; is it therefore not of the Body? |
A37987 | If the whole Body were an Eye, where were the hearing? |
A37987 | If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? |
A37987 | If then they hold this, I ask why this Motion also which they speak of is not perceived by us? |
A37987 | If this were so, how comes it to pass that the Shells( which he often speaks of) remain still? |
A37987 | If you ask why the Lives of such Men are not always Good; yea, why they do not excel? |
A37987 | It is not without cause that they are thus and thus shap''d, and not otherwise: and whence is this but from a Divine Author? |
A37987 | It may be said, Are there not many Useless and Superfluous Animals in the World? |
A37987 | Just so the Earth turns it self round to the Sun, to roast it self, and who would expect any other thing? |
A37987 | Must we therefore deny that there is any at all? |
A37987 | Now, is it not more likely that the Earth moves than that these vast Bodies move from Place to Place? |
A37987 | Now, whence can this so neat, so commodious, so exact Architecture proceed but from a Divine Director? |
A37987 | Or take it more largely in the Words of Mr. Cowley''s Muse, What senseless Miser by the Gods abhorr''d Would covet more than Cocus doth afford? |
A37987 | Or, is a thing sensible, and yet not the Object of Sense? |
A37987 | Shall an Inanimate Machine be extoll''d as the effect of Art and Invention, and yet shall the Artificer himself be voted to be from no such Principle? |
A37987 | They were not against Physicians, but Pretenders to the Art( and who indeed is not against them?) |
A37987 | This is not to be believ''d, and why therefore do any take the Confidence to assert the Earth''s moving under them when they have no Sense of it? |
A37987 | This is that puzzling Problem which the wise Man starts, How the Bones grow in her that is with child? |
A37987 | Vis Deum Mundum ● ocare? |
A37987 | What are the Heavens in comparison of this Glorious Creature? |
A37987 | What is the Brightest Constellation in respect of the Organiz''d Fabrick of Humane Bodies? |
A37987 | What is the Sun if compar''d with the Rational Soul of Man? |
A37987 | What is the reason( say they) that such great Numbers of these Persons have so little Sense of a God in their Lives? |
A37987 | What tho our shallow Understandings can not guess at the Purpose and Project of Heaven? |
A37987 | What words shall I use, saith † Plutarch, to express sufficiently the Diligence of the Pismires? |
A37987 | When he views the strange Conveyances, the greater and lesser Chanels and Conduits for the Liquors and Juices contained in it? |
A37987 | Whence is it that they are not spent and exhausted? |
A37987 | Whence is there such an Abundance of things made as''t were to support our Luxury? |
A37987 | Wherefore it was St. Augustine''s devout Query, Quis disposuit membra culicis& pulicis? |
A37987 | Who admires not the singular Hand of the Almighty in the Ebbing and Flowing of this huge Mass of Waters? |
A37987 | Who can give Credit to that Romantick Solution of the French Phi ● osopher? |
A37987 | Who can sufficiently admire this when he beholds the Variety of the Structure, the Diversity of the Workmanship? |
A37987 | Who hath disposed and set in order the several Joints and Members of a Gnat or a Flea? |
A37987 | Who hath given them that excellent Contexture of Parts? |
A37987 | Who is not ravish''d with the excellent Shape, Colour and Smell of the Plants and Flowers which a choice Garden is stock''d with? |
A37987 | Who is not sensible that Thunder is the more signal Operation of a Divine Cause, and therefore is so frequently call''d God''s Voice? |
A37987 | Who knoweth not in all th ● se that the Hand of the Lord hath wrought this? |
A37987 | Who made these Beautiful Objects in the World but Beauty it self? |
A37987 | Who therefore can deny that this is more sensible than that? |
A37987 | Why do some of them profess an Indifferency as to Religion, and scarcely acknowledge the Author of it? |
A37987 | Why may we not hold that these Strata were originally so disposed? |
A37987 | Why were they not dissolved? |
A37987 | Yea, how can he be so impudent as to say that Man himself was but a By- blow? |
A37987 | Yea, how come they to be in the very same Figure and Shape that they had at first, and to have no alteration? |
A37987 | Yea, is there not a great Number of Hurtful and Mischievous Creatures on the Earth, and in the Air, and''t is likely in the Waters too? |
A37987 | Yea, why do some endeavour to expel both of them out of the World, and to introduce Atheism, Scepticism and Prophaneness? |
A37987 | how thin and soft a Web doth it weave? |
A37987 | nonne auctorem suum parentémque testatur? |
A37987 | or can the Heavens( of themselves) give Showers? |
A37987 | unde illa luxu ● ia ● quoque instruens copia? |
A37987 | † Quid mirabilius aquis in coelis stantibus? |
A37987 | † Unde h ● ● e innumerabilia oculos, aures,& animam mulcen ● ia? |
A37987 | † Whence comes it to pass, saith Seneca, that there is such a Multitude of Grateful Objects in the Universe, which ravish our Ears, Eyes and Minds? |