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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1016 | ( 3) How, then, should we avail ourselves of it so as to gain the fourth kind of knowledge with the least delay concerning things previously unknown? |
1016 | ( 5) With what is such an idea concerned? |
1016 | [ 83]( 1) What, then, is memory? |
990 | ( 100) Why did they not hide it? |
990 | ( 182) But if we grant all this licence, what can it effect after all? |
990 | ( 36) Who, I say, does not see that the number of the years of Saul''s age when he began to reign has been omitted? |
990 | ( 61) What is to be done with persons who will only see what pleases them? |
990 | ( 62) What is such a proceeding if it is not denying Scripture, and inventing another Bible out of our own heads? |
990 | ( 78) Is it not equally clear from Nehemiah vii:5, that the writer merely there copies the list given in Ezra? |
990 | ( 81) Can this have happened by mistake? |
990 | ( 85) Where is such knowledge to be obtained? |
990 | ( 92) No book ever was completely free from faults, yet I would ask, who suspects all books to be everywhere faulty? |
990 | Is it possible to imagine a clerical error to have been committed every, time the word occurs? |
991 | ( 17) Moreover, I may ask now, is a man to assent to anything against his reason? |
991 | ( 18) What is denial if it be not reason''s refusal to assent? |
991 | ( 22) Do they think that faith and religion can not be upheld unless- men purposely keep themselves in ignorance, and turn their backs on reason? |
991 | ( 30) Firstly, I ask what shall we do if reason prove recalcitrant? |
991 | ( 31) Shall we still be bound to affirm whatever Scripture affirms, and to deny whatever Scripture denies? |
991 | ( 33) Jeremiah states this in so many words( xxii:15, 16):"Did not thy father eat, and drink, and do judgment and justice? |
991 | ( 34) He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know Me? |
991 | ( 36) Wherefore, we must take the passage literally, and Solomon''s words( I Kings viii:27),"But will God dwell on the earth? |
991 | ( 44) What? |
991 | ( 45) Are not these two texts directly contradictory? |
991 | ( 46) Which of the two, then, would our author want to explain metaphorically? |
991 | And, after all, why are they so anxious? |
991 | VIII.? |
991 | What are they afraid of? |
992 | ( 176) Who is there who would willingly violate the religious rights of his kindred? |
992 | ( 177) What could a man desire more than to support his own brothers and parents, thus fulfilling the duties of religion? |
992 | ( 178) Who would not rejoice in being taught by them the interpretation of the laws, and receiving through them the answers of God? |
992 | ( 19:79) Perhaps I shall be asked,"But if the holders of sovereign power choose to be wicked, who will be the rightful champion of piety? |
992 | ( 20:57) What purpose then is served by the death of such men, what example in proclaimed? |
992 | ( 33) Am I responsible for the answers of the gods? |
992 | ( 4) For he made answer to Joshua,"Enviest thou for my sake? |
992 | ( 60) Was not the deed perpetrated as an example and warning for himself? |
992 | ( 71) What is left for the sovereign power to decide on, if this right be denied him? |
992 | ( 80) Should the sovereigns still be its interpreters? |
992 | [ 19:4]( 52) Perhaps someone will ask: By what right, then, did the disciples of Christ, being private citizens, preach a new religion? |
992 | should we obey the Divine law or the human law? |
989 | ( 102) Are these cruelties His doings?" |
989 | ( 36) With these precautions I constructed a method of Scriptural interpretation, and thus equipped proceeded to inquire- what is prophecy? |
989 | ( 37) In what sense did God reveal himself to the prophets, and why were these particular men- chosen by him? |
989 | ( 38) Was it on account of the sublimity of their thoughts about the Deity and nature, or was it solely on account of their piety? |
989 | ( 71) Are we, forsooth, bound to believe that Joshua the Soldier was a learned astronomer? |
989 | ( 84) Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?" |
989 | ):"Who is there among you that will shut the doors? |
989 | 11,"Where is He that put His Holy Spirit within him?" |
989 | Lastly, what is the good gained by knowing the sacred histories and believing them? |
989 | What is the teaching of Holy Writ concerning this natural light of reason and natural law? |
989 | What part of the Scripture narratives is one bound to believe? |
989 | Whether by the natural light of reason we can conceive of God as a law- giver or potentate ordaining laws for men? |
989 | With what objects were ceremonies formerly instituted? |
989 | cxxxix:7,"Wither shall I go from Thy Spirit, or whither shall I flee from Thy presence?" |
989 | iii:1):"What advantage then hath the Jew? |
989 | is it not in that Thou goest with us? |
989 | or what profit is there of circumcision? |
989 | the mercy] of the Lord straitened? |
989 | whither shall I go so as to be beyond Thy power and Thy presence? |
989 | who, save Himself, hath caused the mind of the Lord to will anything,? |
989 | xii:26),"And if Satan cast out devils, his house is divided against itself, how then shall his kingdom stand? |
989 | xl:13:"Who hath disposed the Spirit of the Lord?" |
989 | xv:11) he exclaims,"Who is like unto Thee, 0 Lord, among the gods?" |
26321 | A materialist, if he were consistent, should laugh such a traveller to scorn, saying,"What guidance or purpose can there be in a material object? |
26321 | But here is just the puzzle: at what point does will or determination enter into the scheme? |
26321 | But is it to be asserted on the strength of that fact that the term"music"has no significance apart from its material manifestation? |
26321 | But is it to be supposed that the complex aggregate_ generated_ the life and mind, as the planet generated its atmosphere? |
26321 | But suppose it was successful; what then? |
26321 | CHAPTER VI MIND AND MATTER What, then, is the probable essence of truth in Professor Haeckel''s philosophy? |
26321 | Can it be said that they too had existed previously in some dormant condition in the ether of space? |
26321 | Can there not be in the universe a multitude of things which matter as we know it is incompetent to express? |
26321 | Do they arise by guidance or by chance? |
26321 | Does that show that the earth generated the life? |
26321 | Have the ideas of Sir Edward Elgar no reality apart from their record on paper and reproduction by an orchestra? |
26321 | How did they manage to spring into being? |
26321 | Is natural selection akin to the verified and practical processes of artificial selection? |
26321 | No\doubt some chemical process: combination or dissociation, something atomic, occurred; but what made it occur just then and in that way? |
26321 | Suppose we grant all this, what then? |
26321 | That they too were closed loops opened out, and their existence thus displayed, by the electric current? |
26321 | The argument represented by"He that formed the eye, shall he not see? |
26321 | We can put things together, and we can set things in motion,--statics and kinetics,--can we do more? |
26321 | Why, then, should it be inconceivable that human beings should receive information from beings in the universe higher than themselves? |
26321 | he that planted the ear, shall he not hear?" |
26321 | or is it wholly alien to them and influenced by chance alone? |
36800 | But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? 36800 And can any rational inquirer be astonished at that? 36800 And if we are to give to every one that asketh, what are our vagrancy laws but a flagrant violation of Christianity? 36800 And the stone was still against the door, and they said, Who shall roll us away the stone? 36800 And while they yet believed not for joy and wondered, he said unto them,Have ye here any meat?" |
36800 | God is_ not_ the God of the_ dead_, but of the_ living_,"What then is the use of Catholic prayers for the souls of those in Purgatory? |
36800 | Have not the Jesuits carried out this advice? |
36800 | He said--"The baptism of John, whence was it? |
36800 | He saith unto them, But whom say_ ye_ that I am?" |
36800 | How could Jesus see from one spot all the kingdoms of the world? |
36800 | If any one smites us on the right cheek, do we not quickly turn and hit him on the left? |
36800 | If this is so, what becomes of the hope which believers in immortality have that in heaven they will be joined again to those they have lost on earth? |
36800 | In the morning he was bound and led before Pilate the governor, who asked him,"Art thou the king of the Jews?" |
36800 | Instead of showing any penitence, he pertly answered,"How is it that ye sought me? |
36800 | Is this an instance of meekness? |
36800 | Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? |
36800 | So after all, who knows that they found the right babe at last? |
36800 | When Jesus came into the coasts of Cæsarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of Man am? |
36800 | When asked whether it was lawful to render tribute unto Cæsar, he said, looking at a coin,"Whose is this image and superscription?" |
36800 | Who in his senses would think of doing so? |
36800 | Who would stand by and allow others to do it? |
36800 | Ye fools, did not he that made that which is_ without_, make that which it_ within_ also?" |
36800 | and who are my brethren? |
36800 | from heaven, or of men?" |
36800 | or, what shall we drink? |
36800 | or, wherewithal shall we be clothed?" |
36800 | wist ye not that I must be about my Father''s business?" |
21995 | ''[ 4] Do you say that in that case the tables and chairs must be supposed to disappear the moment we all leave the room? |
21995 | Are we to think of the series of events in time as having a beginning and possibly an end, or as being without beginning or end? |
21995 | But can I detect any relation between these experiences of mine except that of succession? |
21995 | But do not you yourself perceive or think of them all the while? |
21995 | But even so, when all this is borne in mind, it may be asked, What is the real meaning of saying that a man was also God? |
21995 | But how, it may be said, do we know that those minds did not exist before the birth of the organisms with which upon this planet they are connected? |
21995 | But what is this good life which we are to promote? |
21995 | But what of the first of these events-- the beginning of the whole series? |
21995 | But what of the intellectual life? |
21995 | But, meanwhile, a word may be uttered in answer to the question which may very probably be asked-- Is God a Person? |
21995 | Can it be translated into terms of our modern thought and speech? |
21995 | Could you for one moment admit the possibility that after countless aeons of nothingness a flash of lightning should occur or an animal be born? |
21995 | Do you find a difficulty in the idea of partial and inadequate knowledge? |
21995 | Do you insist that we logically ought to say it might contain the characteristics of both mind and matter? |
21995 | Granted that there is some truth in all Religions, does Christianity contain the most truth? |
21995 | Has it all a modern meaning? |
21995 | Has that no value? |
21995 | How are we to learn anything about the character of God? |
21995 | How then are we to account for such evils in a Universe which we believe to express the thought and will of a perfectly righteous Being? |
21995 | If the consciousness of exercising activity is a delusion, why does not that delusion occur in the one case as much as in the other? |
21995 | If we are to admit an indefinite possibility of growth and change, how do we know that Christianity itself will not one day be outgrown? |
21995 | In a world in which{ 9} there were no eyes and no minds, what would be the meaning of saying that things were red or blue? |
21995 | In what mind, then, does the moral law exist? |
21995 | Is God a Person? |
21995 | Is Materialism possible? |
21995 | Is it in any sense the one absolute, final, universal Religion?'' |
21995 | Is it not so with our knowledge of God? |
21995 | Now can a relation exist except for a mind? |
21995 | Now could you under these conditions rationally suppose that anything could have come into existence? |
21995 | Now, if we do apply these judgements of value to the Universe as we know it, can we say that everything in it seems to be very good? |
21995 | Now, the question arises--''Can such an objectivity be asserted by those who take a purely materialistic or naturalistic view of the Universe?'' |
21995 | Professor Harnack''s{ 189}_ What is Christianity?_ has become the typical expression of the Ritschlian attitude. |
21995 | Space is made up of relations; and what is the meaning of relations apart from a mind which relates, or_ for_ which the things are related? |
21995 | The idea of a Matter which can exist by itself is an inference: is it a reasonable one? |
21995 | The question remains,''What is the nature of this one Reality?'' |
21995 | The wages of sin is death: if the wages of Virtue be dust, Would she have heart to endure for the life of the worm and the fly? |
21995 | We commonly speak of fire as the cause of the melting of the wax, but what do we really know about the matter? |
21995 | What do we mean by solidity, for instance? |
21995 | What in fact are we to make of the theological idea of Creation, often further defined as Creation out of nothing? |
21995 | What kind of existence then have the parts of the Universe which are not known to any mind? |
21995 | What place then is left for the idea of Revelation? |
21995 | What sort of existence, then, can an undiscovered planet possess till it is{ 99} discovered? |
21995 | What then, it may be asked, of the things which no human eye has ever seen or even thought of? |
21995 | Where and how does this moral law exist? |
21995 | Why is there not twice that amount of good? |
21995 | Why, then, should we shrink from admitting that the value of character really is increased when it is regarded as surviving bodily death? |
21995 | _ Are Spirits created or pre- existent?_ The close connexion and correspondence between mind and body makes for the former view. |
21995 | _ Is the whole- time series infinite?_ Time must be regarded as objective, but the''antinomies''involved in the nature of Time can not be resolved,. |
21995 | _ Is the world created?_ There may or may not be a beginning of the particular series of physical events constituting our world. |
15780 | ''The vital question,''he says,''is this, how are we to keep the Church of England from being liberalised?'' |
15780 | ARNOLD What shall we say of Matthew Arnold himself? |
15780 | And what is that but a judgment of the practical reason, the response of the heart in man to the spiritual universe? |
15780 | Are the practices of worship which they imply consonant with the supposition that the law was in force? |
15780 | Are we to regard these as all equally inspired? |
15780 | Bousset''s little book,_ Was Wissen wir von Jesus?_ 1904, convinces a quiet mind that we know a good deal. |
15780 | But we are then left with the query: What created the Church? |
15780 | But what was the gospel of Jesus? |
15780 | By what possible means can we ever know how he reacted, worked, willed, suffered? |
15780 | Can we know the inner life of Christ well enough to use it thus as test in every, or even in any case? |
15780 | Do not all parts of it assume a settled state of society and an agricultural life? |
15780 | Does not the use of such a test, or of any test in this external way, take us out of the realm of the religion of the spirit? |
15780 | Else how can the Church of England be now a Catholic Church? |
15780 | FICHTE Fichte asked, Why? |
15780 | Fichte said:''Why do we put it all in so perverse a way? |
15780 | For that matter, what prevents a Buddhist from declaring his thoughts and feelings to be Christianity? |
15780 | Had not Newman, however, made passionate warfare on the liberalism of the modern world? |
15780 | How can the language of Scripture be explained, and yet the reality of the revelation not be explained away? |
15780 | How can these two modes of thought stand related the one to the other? |
15780 | How can this be? |
15780 | How can we know that to be a command of God, which does not commend itself in our own heart and conscience? |
15780 | How could truth be infallibly conveyed in defective and fallible expressions? |
15780 | How did even Christ''s great soul react, experience, work, will, and suffer? |
15780 | How did they choose the writings which were to belong to this new collection? |
15780 | How did this great transformation take place? |
15780 | How do souls react in face of the eternal? |
15780 | How have we to think of this co- operation? |
15780 | If it be asked,"Do we live in a free- thinking age?" |
15780 | If so much is reduced to idea, why not all? |
15780 | In the first place, how do we know what Francis was like? |
15780 | In what way did the very earliest Christians apprehend that gospel? |
15780 | Indeed, Ritschl asks, why is not Buddhism as good as such Christianity? |
15780 | Is there any escape from this situation, short of the return to the authority of Church or Scripture in the ancient sense? |
15780 | Kings know anything about the law? |
15780 | Men ask, could the law, or even any greater part of it, have been given to nomads in the wilderness? |
15780 | One is fain to ask: What right has any man to publish a scrap- book of his musings? |
15780 | Or was it that in Jesus Messiah has come? |
15780 | Or was it the faith of the Messiah, the reverence for the Messiah, directed to the person of Jesus? |
15780 | The question is, upon what does the tortoise stand? |
15780 | The work taken as a whole is so bewildering that one finds himself asking,''What is Ritschl''s method?'' |
15780 | They can not be uncatholic in spirit, else how should they be identical in meaning with the great Catholic creeds? |
15780 | Transl.,_ What is Christianity?_ T.B. |
15780 | Was Gladstone''s attitude intelligible? |
15780 | Was it an isolated achievement, or was it part of a general movement? |
15780 | Was it not merely a question of degrees? |
15780 | Was it that the Kingdom of God was near, that the Son of Man would come? |
15780 | Was it the longing for the coming of the Kingdom of God, the striving after the righteousness of the Sermon on the Mount? |
15780 | Was it, Repent, or was it, Believe on the Lord Jesus, or was it both, and which had the greater emphasis? |
15780 | Was the name of Jesus used in the formulas of worship before the time of Paul? |
15780 | What are some facts of this inner life? |
15780 | What are the facts of the religious experience? |
15780 | What becomes of Confucianists and Shintoists, who have never heard of the historic Christ? |
15780 | What can possibly be the worth of a whole of which the parts have no worth? |
15780 | What is Christianity? |
15780 | What is the relation of language to thought and of thought to fact? |
15780 | What was the central principle in the shaping of the earliest stages of the new community, both as to its thought and life? |
15780 | What was the demand upon the hearer? |
15780 | What word dominated the preaching? |
15780 | Why did they reject books which we know were read for edification in the early churches? |
15780 | Why is not that also the result of the activity of the ego? |
15780 | Why is not the ego, the thinking subject, all that is, the creator of the world, according to the laws of thought? |
15780 | Why must there be a_ Ding- an- sich_? |
15780 | Why not, if we can only in spirit come near to Christ and God? |
15780 | Why reduce the world of matter to just a point? |
15780 | Yet sooner or later we come to the child''s question: Who made God? |
15780 | Yet, as Ritschl describes this guidance, in the exigency of his contention against mysticism, have we anything different? |
15780 | _ Wie wurden die Bücher des neuen Testaments heilige Schrift?_ Tübingen, 1907. |
3743 | Art thou the man of God that came from Judah? 3743 Canst thou by searching find out God; canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection?" |
3743 | --And what then? |
3743 | 18,"Tell me, I pray thee, where the seer''s house is? |
3743 | 3. Who is there among you of all his people? |
3743 | After the lot had designated Jonah to be the offender, they questioned him to know who and what he was? |
3743 | After this, who can doubt the bountifulness of the Christian Mythology? |
3743 | And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship and said unto him, What saith my Lord unto his servant?" |
3743 | And what is the difference? |
3743 | And what then? |
3743 | And what then? |
3743 | And what then? |
3743 | And, on the other hand, are we to suppose that every world in the boundless creation had an Eve, an apple, a serpent, and a redeemer? |
3743 | Are these things, and the blessings they indicate in future, nothing to, us? |
3743 | Are we sure that the books that tell us so were written by his authority? |
3743 | BUT if objects for gratitude and admiration are our desire, do they not present themselves every hour to our eyes? |
3743 | BUT some perhaps will say-- Are we to have no word of God-- no revelation? |
3743 | But how was Jesus Christ to make anything known to all nations? |
3743 | But why must the moon stand still? |
3743 | Can our gross feelings be excited by no other subjects than tragedy and suicide? |
3743 | Can we conceive anything more destructive to morality than this? |
3743 | Do we not see a fair creation prepared to receive us the instant we are born-- a world furnished to our hands, that cost us nothing? |
3743 | Do we want to contemplate his mercy? |
3743 | Do we want to contemplate his munificence? |
3743 | Do we want to contemplate his power? |
3743 | Do we want to contemplate his wisdom? |
3743 | Does not the creation, the universe we behold, preach to us the existence of an Almighty power, that governs and regulates the whole? |
3743 | First, Canst thou by searching find out God? |
3743 | For what reason, or on what authority, should we do this? |
3743 | From whence, I ask, could he gain that knowledge, but from the study of the true theology? |
3743 | Having published his predictions, he withdrew, says the story, to the east side of the city.--But for what? |
3743 | How happened it that he did not discover America? |
3743 | How then is it that those people pretend to reject reason? |
3743 | If the writer meant that he( God) buried him, how should he( the writer) know it? |
3743 | If they lied in one genealogy, why are we to believe them in the other? |
3743 | In fine, do we want to know what God is? |
3743 | Is it not reasonable to suppose that by the cherubims he meant the temple at Jerusalem, where they had figures of cherubims? |
3743 | Is it we that light up the sun; that pour down the rain; and fill the earth with abundance? |
3743 | Now, in the name of common sense, can it be Joshua that relates what people had done after he was dead? |
3743 | Of this class are, EZEKIEL and DANIEL; and the first question upon these books, as upon all the others, is, Are they genuine? |
3743 | Or is the gloomy pride of man become so intolerable, that nothing can flatter it but a sacrifice of the Creator? |
3743 | Or of what use is it that this immensity of worlds is visible to man? |
3743 | Secondly, Canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection? |
3743 | Since then no part of our earth is left unoccupied, why is it to be supposed that the immensity of space is a naked void, lying in eternal waste? |
3743 | Some Christians pretend that Christianity was not established by the sword; but of what period of time do they speak? |
3743 | The first question, however, upon the books of the New Testament, as upon those of the Old, is, Are they genuine? |
3743 | The question upon this passage is, At what time did the Jebusites and the children of Judah dwell together at Jerusalem? |
3743 | This brings on a supposed expostulation between the Almighty and the prophet; in which the former says,"Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? |
3743 | Those books, therefore, have neither been written by the men called apostles, nor by imposters in concert.--How then have they been written? |
3743 | To what cause then are we to assign this skulking? |
3743 | What certainty then can there be in the Bible for any thing? |
3743 | What have ye still to offer against the pure and moral religion of deism, in support of your system of falsehood, idolatry, and pretended revelation? |
3743 | What is it that we have learned from this pretended thing called revealed religion? |
3743 | What is it we want to know? |
3743 | What more does man want to know, than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? |
3743 | What occasion could there be for moonlight in the daytime, and that too whilst the sun shined? |
3743 | What shadow of pretence have ye now to produce for continuing the blasphemous fraud? |
3743 | What then can we say of these prophets, but that they are impostors and liars? |
3743 | Who can say by what exceeding fine action of fine matter it is that a thought is produced in what we call the mind? |
3743 | Who is there among you of all his people? |
3743 | Why then are we to believe the same thing of another girl whom we never saw, told by nobody knows who, nor when, nor where? |
3743 | Why then is it to be supposed they have changed with respect to man? |
3743 | Would it not then have been the same if he had died of a fever or of the small pox, of old age, or of anything else? |
3743 | Would they believe me a whit the more if the thing had been a fact? |
3743 | [ NOTE by Paine: If it should be asked, how can man know these things? |
3743 | and in the same manner, what beyond the next boundary? |
3743 | are we sure that the Creator of man commissioned those things to be done? |
3743 | or why should we( the readers) believe him? |
3743 | that is, were they written by Ezekiel and Daniel? |
3743 | were they written by the persons to whom they are ascribed? |
60488 | And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? 60488 And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? |
60488 | He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? 60488 Is he the God of the Jews only? |
60488 | Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore? 60488 Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? |
60488 | What is the object of this unparalleled, this mysterious incarnation? 60488 When Jesus came into the coasts of CÃ ¦ sarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? |
60488 | Wherewith shall I come before the Lord( said the prophet Micah),"and bow myself before the high God? |
60488 | Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? 60488 And he said unto them, What would ye that I should do for you? 60488 And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? 60488 And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? 60488 And why did God make himself man? 60488 Are we then to pronounce all divine incarnation false, every tradition of it spurious? 60488 Are we to infer that these faults have the same origin as the doctrines with which they are intermixed, and that they are both divinely inspired? 60488 Are we, therefore, to affirm that those laws are necessary, and that no deviation from them is possible in nature? 60488 But He answered and said unto them,Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? |
60488 | But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites? |
60488 | But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? |
60488 | But he is pre- eminently the seer:"Is not the seer here?" |
60488 | But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?" |
60488 | But what images so strike, so penetrate the soul? |
60488 | But why an attack of this character, so indirect and little complete? |
60488 | By a voice from without or by an internal inspiration? |
60488 | By what marks can we distinguish the Divine origin of this special revelation that became the Christian religion? |
60488 | By what ways did Jesus Christ penetrate the human soul to accomplish this great work? |
60488 | Did they act up to their teachings, and accomplish what they attempted? |
60488 | Did they cause humanity to make any great progress, and open to it horizons which it had not before known? |
60488 | Did they really change the moral and social condition of nations? |
60488 | Do these two monuments form but one single edifice? |
60488 | For what is it that unites in a church if it is not faith? |
60488 | Had He not to do so when invested with the attributes of humanity, among contemporaries, and even in his own family? |
60488 | Has God need of man''s concurrence? |
60488 | Has it a rightful claim to all this power? |
60488 | Have they, or not, a meaning and an object? |
60488 | Have we not daily the example and the spectacle before our eyes? |
60488 | Have you then completely forgotten, or have you never thoroughly comprehended, humanity and the history of humanity? |
60488 | He acts, it is said, only by general and permanent laws: how can we implore His interference in favour of our special and exceptional desires? |
60488 | He has himself his moments of sadness, of disquietude:"And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, What shall I do unto this people? |
60488 | He is immutable, ever perfect, and ever the same: how is it conceivable that He lends Himself to the fickleness of human sentiments and wishes? |
60488 | He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? |
60488 | How did He win the human soul to the Christian faith, in order to snatch it from evil and to save it? |
60488 | How did he, in each instance, reach such a haven of repose? |
60488 | How did those who were its witnesses and instruments think and speak of it at the moment when it was manifested? |
60488 | How does life become sad? |
60488 | How had God spoken to Abraham? |
60488 | How has he come there? |
60488 | How is his liberty compatible with the laws which govern him and the world? |
60488 | How is it that we find it so charming to give it this name, and regard it under this aspect? |
60488 | How is the great event thus characterised by M. Ewald proved? |
60488 | How lead them back to Christianity? |
60488 | How sound closely the mysteries of such a person and such a purpose? |
60488 | How was the Divine Incarnation accomplished in man? |
60488 | If good, how then has evil found admission? |
60488 | Impossible that men should not feel themselves bound to act towards each other as God has done to them; and towards what man is not charity a duty? |
60488 | In holding this language, what in effect is Dr. Chalmers doing? |
60488 | Is good or is evil the condition and the law of man and of the world? |
60488 | Is he a passive instrument of fate, or a responsible agent? |
60488 | Is it by virtue of experience that the child trusts to the words of its mother, that it has faith in all she tells it? |
60488 | Is it destined to fall with the monarchy of Solomon, or to languish and die out in the midst of the struggles and disasters of Judah and of Israel? |
60488 | Is it, then, in His own name that Jesus Christ teaches and commands? |
60488 | Is its influence legitimate, as well as efficacious? |
60488 | Is this the normal and definitive state of man and of the world? |
60488 | Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? |
60488 | Laws there are which govern them;--is there a legislator? |
60488 | Miracles formerly constituted the great force of the sermon, at the present day what are they but a secret source of embarrassment? |
60488 | Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? |
60488 | That second history, is it comprised and written beforehand in the first? |
60488 | They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away? |
60488 | What are its source and its nature? |
60488 | What are the elements and the essential facts which constitute it, and upon which it is founded? |
60488 | What are the ties and relations which connect him with the Legislator of the world? |
60488 | What are their beginning and their end? |
60488 | What are they in comparison and in contact with Christian nations? |
60488 | What connection and harmony between the purest, the most generous, instincts of the human soul, and the dogma of God''s Redemption? |
60488 | What did Moses do to obtain a renown so great and so enduring? |
60488 | What does it affirm itself in support of its claim to the moral conquest of mankind? |
60488 | What great progress, what salutary changes, have been effected? |
60488 | What is man himself, but an incomplete and imperfect incarnation of God? |
60488 | What is the full import of this title? |
60488 | What is the full meaning of these words? |
60488 | What is the meaning of this? |
60488 | What is the origin of each, and whither does each tend? |
60488 | What is to become, in this absolute ruin of the nationality of the Jews, of their God, and their faith? |
60488 | What mean these inward disquietudes,--these alternate impulses of pride and weakness? |
60488 | What need to add more? |
60488 | What need to mention that in speaking of the finite world, I do not mean to speak of the material world alone? |
60488 | What passed in that divine soul during that human existence? |
60488 | What shall I say unto them? |
60488 | What sincerity and what firmness ever showed themselves more strikingly than those that grew out of the faith of St. Paul? |
60488 | What teach, what command, in that speech full of authority? |
60488 | What the signification of the inspiration of the sacred volumes? |
60488 | What then ensues? |
60488 | What then is this but to pretend to comprehend God? |
60488 | What was the positive extent of this primal revelation, the necessary attendant upon creation, which occurred in the first relation of God with man? |
60488 | What wonder if Christ has in these days to encounter such adversaries? |
60488 | When it has no other God than the universe, no other man than the chief of the mammalia, what is it but a mere system of Zoology? |
60488 | Whence come this commingling and this strife? |
60488 | Whence comes this Utopia of innocence and bliss in the cradle of the human race? |
60488 | Whence does the world proceed, and whence does man appear in the midst of it? |
60488 | Whence in him this harmony between the philosopher and the Christian? |
60488 | Where are these nations at the present day, more than two thousand years after the appearance of these glorious characters in their history? |
60488 | Wherefore suffering and death? |
60488 | Who does not see how this sublime fact exalts man''s dignity at the same time that it illustrates the worth of man''s nature? |
60488 | Who is there that does not discern an essential, an absolute difference between what is general and what is necessary? |
60488 | Who shall define the possible contingencies, or fathom the mysteries of this relation? |
60488 | Who shall sound the depth of the fall, and of the change which it brought into the moral condition of its author? |
60488 | Who shall weigh the consequences of this change to the state and the moral dispositions of man''s descendants? |
60488 | Why did these four essential systems-- sensualism, idealism, scepticism, and mysticism, appear from the most ancient times? |
60488 | Why has he left Chaldà ¦ a? |
60488 | Why prayer? |
60488 | Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? |
60488 | and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? |
60488 | and by what right do they oppose his nature to his providence, if his nature is, to us, an impenetrable mystery? |
60488 | how does it lose its illusions? |
60488 | is he not also of the Gentiles? |
60488 | or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk? |
60488 | shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? |
60488 | shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? |
60488 | why is it that the intimate experience of my own heart can not express itself in a forcible protest against any such opinion? |
60488 | wist ye not that I must be about my Father''s business? |
60488 | { 147} Is it possible to determine in words of greater precision the religious and moral object of the inspiration? |
60488 | { 178} Can He not, if He will, accomplish all his designs by himself, and through the fulness of his omnipotence?" |
60488 | { 206} But what, in this decline, will become of the law revealed on Sinai to Moses? |
60488 | { 212} And shall, then, the Hebrews oppose no efficacious resistance to these reverses? |
60488 | { 245} What Reformer, other than Jesus Christ, ever held to his followers such language? |
60488 | { 248} What does He say to them? |
60488 | { 258} Need I say more? |
60488 | { 278} Is it lawful to give tribute unto Cesar, or not? |
60488 | { 287} Another day,"came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? |
60488 | { 36} In what does this dogma consist? |
60488 | { 3} Under the empire of these laws, man feels and calls himself free: is he so in reality? |
60488 | { 47} To what does this idea of a primal time, without strife, without sin, and without pain, correspond? |
60488 | { 49} Is this a pleasure foreign to all personal sentiment, to all secret reference to ourselves, the pleasure, that is to say, of a simple spectator? |
60488 | { 5} I borrow the following admirable observations from M. de Châteaubriand:--"Why does not the ox as I do? |
60488 | { 62} Whence comes this power? |
60488 | { 80} And are we then to regard this merely as a pious, a generous illusion, a devotedness as vain as admirable? |
60488 | { 87} Do you ignore absolutely what the people really is, and what all those nations are that cover the surface of the earth? |
60488 | { 95}''Whither, whither, O Lord, marches the earth in the heavens?''" |
60488 | { 97} Have you well weighed all this? |
60488 | { xiii} Does it comprehend properly, does it suitably carry on the warfare in which it is engaged? |
621 | ( 118) Our great American revivalist Finney writes:I said to myself:''What is this? |
621 | ( 202) Well, what were its good fruits for Margaret Mary''s life? 621 Heavens, how can I speak of it? |
621 | How are we to conceive,Principal Caird writes,"of the reality in which all intelligence rests?" |
621 | How does it work when we thus anticipate God by going our own way? 621 I then closed my eyes for a few minutes, and seemed to be refreshed with sleep; and when I awoke, the first inquiry was, Where is my God? |
621 | Is there, then,our author continues,"no solution of the contradiction between the ideal and the actual? |
621 | It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do?--deeper than hell; what canst thou know? |
621 | She burst out weeping, and said,''O Richard, what made you fight?'' 621 The spiritual life,"he writes,"justifies itself to those who live it; but what can we say to those who do not understand? |
621 | What for? |
621 | What is the answer which Jesus sends to John the Baptist? |
621 | What shall I think of it? |
621 | Wherefore? |
621 | ''And where shall I do that, Lord?'' |
621 | ''But,''said I,''is that possible?'' |
621 | ''Some one ought to do it, but why should I?'' |
621 | ''Some one ought to do it, so why not I?'' |
621 | ''What is it that is finished?'' |
621 | ''Why,''I asked of myself,''does the author use these terms? |
621 | ( 328) Ought it to be assumed that in all men the mixture of religion with other elements should be identical? |
621 | ( 333) How indeed could it be otherwise? |
621 | ); H. L. HASTINGS: The Guiding Hand, or Providential Direction, illustrated by Authentic Instances, Boston, 1898(?). |
621 | --"How did I come to be? |
621 | ------------------------------------- What shall we now say of the attributes called moral? |
621 | ------------------------------------- What, now, must we ourselves think of this question? |
621 | --or shall we do so with enthusiastic assent? |
621 | ..."Why does man go out to look for a God?... |
621 | ; Brainerd''s, 212; Alline''s, 217; Oxford graduate''s, 221; Ratisbonne''s, 223; instantaneous, 227; is it a natural phenomenon? |
621 | ?_ A. |
621 | After this distinct revelation had stood for some little time before my mind, the question seemed to be put,''Will you accept it now, to- day?'' |
621 | After this, with difficulty I got to sleep; and when I awoke in the morning my first thoughts were: What has become of my happiness? |
621 | Again, are men the factors of some dream, the dream- like unsubstantiality of which they comprehend at such eventful moments? |
621 | And how should I have cried, since I was swooning with happiness within? |
621 | And if it be so, how can any possible judge or critic help being biased in favor of the religion by which his own needs are best met? |
621 | And in what form should we conceive of that"union"with it of which religious geniuses are so convinced? |
621 | And it being said to her in the going out,_ Where is thy faith? |
621 | And second, What is its importance, meaning, or significance, now that it is once here? |
621 | And second, ought we to consider the testimony true? |
621 | And what could it matter, if all propositions were practically indifferent, which of them we should agree to call true or which false? |
621 | And what had they exactly in their several individual minds, when they delivered their utterances? |
621 | And what then? |
621 | And why may not religion be a conception equally complex? |
621 | Are the men of this world right, or are the saints in possession of the deeper range of truth? |
621 | Are there not hereabouts some points of application for a renovated and revised ascetic discipline? |
621 | Are you any more prepared for heaven, or fitter to appear before the impartial bar of God, than when you first began to seek? |
621 | Are you any nearer to conversion now than when you first began? |
621 | At once I replied,''Will you take the desire away?'' |
621 | But I can not keep myself from being either crazy or an idiot; and, as things are, from whom should I ask pity? |
621 | But do you wish, Lord, that I should inclose in poor and barren words sentiments which the heart alone can understand?" |
621 | But how came I, then, to this perception of it? |
621 | But in all seriousness, can such bald animal talk as that be treated as a rational answer? |
621 | But make a mother of her, and what have you? |
621 | But now, I ask you, how can such an existential account of facts of mental history decide in one way or another upon their spiritual significance? |
621 | But the idea of him, I said, how did I ever come by the idea? |
621 | But verily, how stands it with her arguments? |
621 | But what matters it in the end whether we call such a state of mind religious or not? |
621 | But why in the name of common sense need we assume that only one such system of ideas can be true? |
621 | Can modern idealism give faith a better warrant, or must she still rely on her poor self for witness? |
621 | Can philosophy stamp a warrant of veracity upon the religious man''s sense of the divine? |
621 | Can things whose end is always dust and disappointment be the real goods which our souls require? |
621 | Can you believe it? |
621 | Did I stop to ask a single question? |
621 | Did he not love me? |
621 | Do mystical states establish the truth of those theological affections in which the saintly life has its root? |
621 | Do they deduce a new spiritual judgment from their new doctrine of existential conditions? |
621 | Do they frankly forbid us to admire the productions of genius from now onwards? |
621 | Do we accept it only in part and grudgingly, or heartily and altogether? |
621 | Do you not blush with shame at wishing that a knife should be your master? |
621 | Does God really exist? |
621 | Does it act, as well as exist? |
621 | Does it furnish any_ warrant for the truth_ of the twice- bornness and supernaturality and pantheism which it favors? |
621 | Does this temperamental origin diminish the significance of the sudden conversion when it has occurred? |
621 | Everything in me awoke and received a meaning.... Why do I look farther? |
621 | Finney, what ails you?'' |
621 | First of all, then, I ask, What does the expression"mystical states of consciousness"mean? |
621 | First, is there, under all the discrepancies of the creeds, a common nucleus to which they bear their testimony unanimously? |
621 | First, what is the nature of it? |
621 | For what seriousness can possibly remain in debating philosophic propositions that will never make an appreciable difference to us in action? |
621 | Had I not found my God and my Father? |
621 | Had he not called me? |
621 | Has he made religion universal by coercive reasoning, transformed it from a private faith into a public certainty? |
621 | Has he rescued its affirmations from obscurity and mystery? |
621 | Has science made too wide a claim? |
621 | Have I not said the state is utterly beyond words?" |
621 | He came and, placing his hand upon my shoulder, said:''Do you not want to give your heart to God?'' |
621 | He then said,''Are you in pain?'' |
621 | How can I learn aught when naught I know? |
621 | How can the devotee show his loyalty better than by sensitiveness in this regard? |
621 | How do we part off mystical states from other states? |
621 | How does he exist? |
621 | How is success to be absolutely measured when there are so many environments and so many ways of looking at the adaptation? |
621 | How should you know their true nature, since one knows only what one can comprehend? |
621 | How, then, should we_ act_ on these facts? |
621 | How_ can_ you measure their worth without considering whether the God really exists who is supposed to inspire them? |
621 | I ask you, what is human life? |
621 | I asked them what place that was? |
621 | I feel the pressure of his hand, I feel something else which fills me with a serene joy; shall I dare to speak it out? |
621 | I halted but a moment, and then, with a breaking heart, I said,''Dear Jesus, can you help me?'' |
621 | I now turn to my second question: What is the objective"truth"of their content? |
621 | I say God, but why? |
621 | If I, being a wretch and damned sinner, could be redeemed by any other price, what needed the Son of God to be given? |
621 | If it did not, wherein would its superiority consist? |
621 | If one with Omnipotence, how can weariness enter the consciousness, how illness assail that indomitable spark? |
621 | If so, in what shape does it exist? |
621 | If the inner dispositions are right, we ask, what need of all this torment, this violation of the outer nature? |
621 | If the natural world is so double- faced and unhomelike, what world, what thing is real? |
621 | If we are sick souls, we require a religion of deliverance; but why think so much of deliverance, if we are healthy- minded? |
621 | If we can not explain physical light, how can we explain the light which is the truth itself? |
621 | If we were to ask the question:"What is human life''s chief concern?" |
621 | If, then, the entire work is finished, all the debt paid, what remains for me to do?'' |
621 | In other words, is the existence of so many religious types and sects and creeds regrettable? |
621 | In our own attitude, not yet abandoned, of impartial onlookers, what are we to say of this quarrel? |
621 | In the healthiest and most prosperous existence, how many links of illness, danger, and disaster are always interposed? |
621 | In the mean time while thus exercised, a thought arose in my mind, what can it mean? |
621 | In what facts does it result? |
621 | Into what definite description can these words be translated, and for what definite facts do they stand? |
621 | Is an instantaneous conversion a miracle in which God is present as he is present in no change of heart less strikingly abrupt? |
621 | Is it necessary, some of you have asked, as one example after another came before us, to be quite so fantastically good as that? |
621 | Is it not surprising that health exists at all? |
621 | Is it possible that I, in that moment, felt what some of the saints have said they always felt, the undemonstrable but irrefragable certainty of God? |
621 | Is not it a maimed happiness-- care and weariness, weariness and care, with the baseless expectation, the strange cozenage of a brighter to- morrow? |
621 | Is not its blessedness a fragile fiction? |
621 | Is not your joy in it a very vulgar glee, not much unlike the snicker of any rogue at his success? |
621 | Is such a"more"merely our own notion, or does it really exist? |
621 | Is the saint''s type or the strong- man''s type the more ideal? |
621 | Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death which awaits me does not undo and destroy? |
621 | May not voluntarily accepted poverty be"the strenuous life,"without the need of crushing weaker peoples? |
621 | Of what I shall do to- morrow? |
621 | Oh, happy child, what should I do? |
621 | Or how does it assist me to plan my behavior, to know that his happiness is anyhow absolutely complete? |
621 | Or is dogmatic or scholastic theology less doubted in point of fact for claiming, as it does, to be in point of right undoubtable? |
621 | Ought all men to have the same religion? |
621 | Ought it, indeed, to be assumed that the lives of all men should show identical religious elements? |
621 | Ought they to approve the same fruits and follow the same leadings? |
621 | Ought we not, whether we dig or plough or eat, to sing this hymn to God? |
621 | Pray, what specific act can I perform in order to adapt myself the better to God''s simplicity? |
621 | Religion, whatever it is, is a man''s total reaction upon life, so why not say that any total reaction upon life is a religion? |
621 | Severed like cobwebs, broken like bubbles in the sun--"Wo sind die Sorge nun und Noth Die mich noch gestern wollt''erschlaffen? |
621 | She asked always earnestly,''When shall I be perfectly thine, O my God?'' |
621 | Should we not love it; should we not feel buoyed up by the Eternal Arms?" |
621 | So what good will it do you to think all your lives,''Oh, I have done evil, I have made many mistakes''? |
621 | The mere possibility of producing milk from grass, cheese from milk, and wool from skins; who formed and planned it? |
621 | The poet says, Dear City of Cecrops; and wilt thou not say, Dear City of Zeus? |
621 | The question, What are the religious propensities? |
621 | The questions"Why?" |
621 | The subject of Saintliness left us face to face with the question, Is the sense of divine presence a sense of anything objectively true? |
621 | The whole feud revolves essentially upon two pivots: Shall the seen world or the unseen world be our chief sphere of adaptation? |
621 | Then I flung myself on the ground, and at last awoke covered with blood, calling to the two surgeons( who were frightened),''Why did you not kill me? |
621 | Then there crept in upon me so gently, so lovingly, so unmistakably, a way of escape, and what was it after all? |
621 | Then what was to me an audible voice said:''Are you willing to give up everything to the Lord?'' |
621 | There was a sincerity about this man that carried conviction with it, and I found myself saying,''I wonder if God can save_ me_?'' |
621 | These questions"Why?" |
621 | They drew the cord tight with all their strength and asked me,''Does it hurt you?'' |
621 | Thy cowl, thy shaven crown, thy chastity, thy obedience, thy poverty, thy works, thy merits? |
621 | To the believer in moralism and works, with his anxious query,"What shall I do to be saved?" |
621 | To what psychological order do they belong? |
621 | Under just what biographic conditions did the sacred writers bring forth their various contributions to the holy volume? |
621 | Under what form will this fear crush me? |
621 | Was there not a Church into which I might enter?... |
621 | We are It already; how to know It?" |
621 | Well, how is it with these fruits? |
621 | Well, what did I do? |
621 | What are we to think of all this? |
621 | What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? |
621 | What could I do? |
621 | What have I done to deserve this excess of severity? |
621 | What is he? |
621 | What is it, indeed, that keeps existence exfoliating? |
621 | What is its cash- value in terms of particular experience? |
621 | What is more injurious to others? |
621 | What is the particular truth in question_ known as_? |
621 | What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? |
621 | What may the practical fruits for life have been, of such movingly happy conversions as those we heard of? |
621 | What more have we to say now than God said from the whirlwind over two thousand five hundred years ago? |
621 | What must I do to please thee? |
621 | What single- handed man was ever on the whole as successful as Luther? |
621 | What then must the person do? |
621 | What will be the outcome of all my life? |
621 | What will be the outcome of what I do to- day? |
621 | What would happen if the final stage of the trance were reached? |
621 | When I came to him he burst into tears and said:''Richard, will you forgive me for striking you?'' |
621 | When I waked in the morning, the first thought would be, Oh, my wretched soul, what shall I do, where shall I go? |
621 | When S. had finished his prayer and was turning to sleep, the brother said,''Do you still keep up that thing?'' |
621 | When could it be evil when thou wert near? |
621 | When such a conquering optimist as Goethe can express himself in this wise, how must it be with less successful men? |
621 | When we think certain states of mind superior to others, is it ever because of what we know concerning their organic antecedents? |
621 | Whence am I? |
621 | Wherefore did I come? |
621 | Why are twice two four? |
621 | Why can I not write down the inconceivable influences, consolations, and peace which I felt interiorly? |
621 | Why do n''t you manage it somehow?" |
621 | Why does he not say"the atoning work"?'' |
621 | Why not simply leave pathological questions out? |
621 | Why regret a philosophy of evil, a mind- curer would ask us, if I can put you in possession of a life of good? |
621 | Why should I do anything? |
621 | Why should I live? |
621 | Why then not call these reactions our religion, no matter what specific character they may have? |
621 | Why would you not let me die?'' |
621 | Will you be the slave of a knife or the slave of Jesus Christ? |
621 | Would martyrs have sung in the flames for a mere inference, however inevitable it might be? |
621 | Yet he finds himself forced to write:--"What right have we to believe Nature under any obligation to do her work by means of complete minds only? |
621 | Yet how believe as the common people believe, steeped as they are in grossest superstition? |
621 | You have been seeking, praying, reforming, laboring, reading, hearing, and meditating, and what have you done by it towards your salvation? |
621 | _ Have you had any experiences which appeared providential?_ A. |
621 | _ Je m''en fiche_ is the vulgar French equivalent for our English ejaculation"Who cares?" |
621 | _ Things are wrong with them_; and"What shall I do to be clear, right, sound, whole, well?" |
621 | _ What does Religion mean to you?_ A. |
621 | _ What is your notion of sin?_ A. |
621 | _ What is your temperament?_ A. |
621 | _ What things work most strongly on your emotions?_ A. Lively songs and music; Pinafore instead of an Oratorio. |
621 | a common person says to himself about a vexed question; but in a"cranky"mind"What must I do about it?" |
621 | and in what proportion may it need to be restrained by other elements, to give the proper balance? |
621 | and must our means of adaptation in this seen world be aggressiveness or non- resistance? |
621 | and say outright that no neuropath can ever be a revealer of new truth? |
621 | and the question, What is their philosophic significance? |
621 | and"What next?" |
621 | how did it come about? |
621 | in a penny?_ she threw it away, begging pardon of God for her fault, and saying,''No, Lord, my faith is not in a penny, but in thee alone.'' |
621 | until this came:''Why do you not accept it_ now_?'' |
621 | what is its constitution, origin, and history? |
621 | what shall I do now?'' |
621 | what shall I do?'' |
621 | what shall all these do? |
621 | what shall the law of Moses avail? |
14328 | Man,she might say,"why dost thou pursue me with thy daily complainings? |
14328 | ''And he who lacks something is not in all points self- sufficing?'' |
14328 | ''And how can that be?'' |
14328 | ''And that those who are wicked are unhappy is clear in manifold ways?'' |
14328 | ''And that which either tries or amends advantageth?'' |
14328 | ''And what is that?'' |
14328 | ''And why so?'' |
14328 | ''But a man lacks that of which he is in want?'' |
14328 | ''But can God do evil, then?'' |
14328 | ''But dost not thou allow that all which is good is good by participation in goodness?'' |
14328 | ''But if anything should, will it have the least success against Him whom we rightly agreed to be supreme Lord of happiness?'' |
14328 | ''But if the bad were to attain the good which is_ their_ object, they could not be bad?'' |
14328 | ''But it is certain that by the attainment of good men become good?'' |
14328 | ''But that same highest good can not do evil?'' |
14328 | ''Canst thou, then, doubt that he whom thou seest to have accomplished what he willed had also the power to accomplish it?'' |
14328 | ''Did I not say truly that something is missing, whereby, as through a breach in the ramparts, disease hath crept in to disturb thy mind? |
14328 | ''Does the beauty of the fields delight you? |
14328 | ''Dost thou understand?'' |
14328 | ''Dost thou, then, see the consequence of all that we have said?'' |
14328 | ''Hast thou discerned also the causes why this is so?'' |
14328 | ''How should I not?'' |
14328 | ''How so?'' |
14328 | ''How so?'' |
14328 | ''How, pray?'' |
14328 | ''In what way, pray?'' |
14328 | ''In what way?'' |
14328 | ''Is good, then?'' |
14328 | ''Is there anyone, then, who thinks that men are able to do all things?'' |
14328 | ''Is there aught, thinkest thou, amid these mortal and perishable things which can produce a state such as this?'' |
14328 | ''Is this thy question: Whether I know myself for a being endowed with reason and subject to death? |
14328 | ''Nay; what consequence?'' |
14328 | ''Or perhaps it is a long train of servants that makes thee happy? |
14328 | ''So wert thou, then, in the plenitude of thy wealth, supporting this insufficiency?'' |
14328 | ''That which advantageth thou callest good, dost thou not?'' |
14328 | ''Then, again, who does not see how empty, how foolish, is the fame of noble birth? |
14328 | ''Then, all men, good and bad alike, with one indistinguishable purpose strive to reach good?'' |
14328 | ''Then, canst thou say what man is?'' |
14328 | ''Then, do the good attain their object?'' |
14328 | ''Then, in respect of what he can accomplish a man is to be reckoned strong, in respect of what he can not accomplish weak?'' |
14328 | ''Then, the injurer would seem more wretched than the injured?'' |
14328 | ''Then, thou didst want the presence of the one, the absence of the other?'' |
14328 | ''Then, what seek ye by all this noisy outcry about fortune? |
14328 | ''Then, what shall I say of the pleasures of the body? |
14328 | ''Thinkest thou I had laid up for myself store of enmities enough? |
14328 | ''Thinkest thou, then, this combination of qualities to be obscure and without distinction, or rather famous in all renown? |
14328 | ''Thou dost not doubt, I suppose, that it is natural for the feet to discharge this function?'' |
14328 | ''Thou dost not doubt, then, that those who deserve punishment are wretched?'' |
14328 | ''Walking is man''s natural motion, is it not?'' |
14328 | ''Was it not because either something was absent which thou wouldst not have absent, or present which thou wouldst have away?'' |
14328 | ''We judge happiness to be good, do we not?'' |
14328 | ''Well,''said I,''what then?'' |
14328 | ''What is it, then, poor mortal, that hath cast thee into lamentation and mourning? |
14328 | ''What is it?'' |
14328 | ''What is that?'' |
14328 | ''What is that?'' |
14328 | ''What is that?'' |
14328 | ''What is that?'' |
14328 | ''What need to speak of the forged letters by which an attempt is made to prove that I hoped for the freedom of Rome? |
14328 | ''What now shall I say of rank and power, whereby, because ye know not true power and dignity, ye hope to reach the sky? |
14328 | ''What of the good fortune which is given as reward of the good-- do the vulgar adjudge it bad?'' |
14328 | ''What then?'' |
14328 | ''Whither?'' |
14328 | ''Who can venture to deny it?'' |
14328 | ''Why, then, ye children of mortality, seek ye from without that happiness whose seat is only within us? |
14328 | ''Why, what other way is there beside these?'' |
14328 | ''Why, what?'' |
14328 | ''Why, who would venture to deny it?'' |
14328 | ''Wouldst thou deny that every wicked man deserves punishment?'' |
14328 | ''Yet how is it possible that thou knowest not what is the end of existence, when thou dost understand its source and origin? |
14328 | ''Yet they are able to do evil?'' |
14328 | Again I ask, Is Fortune''s presence dear to thee if she can not be trusted to stay, and though she will bring sorrow when she is gone? |
14328 | Am I alone to be forbidden to do what I will with my own? |
14328 | And do not also the things believed inanimate on like grounds of reason seek each what is proper to itself? |
14328 | And if there is in them no beauty to be desired, why shouldst thou either grieve for their loss or find joy in their continued possession? |
14328 | And what plague is more effectual to do hurt than a foe of one''s own household?'' |
14328 | Are friends any protection who have been attached by fortune, not by virtue? |
14328 | Are not the limbs of the wealthy sensitive to the winter''s cold? |
14328 | Are riches, I pray thee, precious either through thy nature or in their own? |
14328 | Are willed actions, then, tied down to any necessity in_ this_ case?'' |
14328 | Art fain to lead a life of pleasure? |
14328 | Art thou minded to put on the splendour of official dignity? |
14328 | Art thou, then, minded to cast up a reckoning with Fortune? |
14328 | Art_ thou_ decked with spring''s flowers? |
14328 | Brutus, Cato-- where are they? |
14328 | But answer this also, I pray thee: rememberest thou that thou art a man?'' |
14328 | But did I deserve such a fate from the Fathers also? |
14328 | But didst thou see a man endued with wisdom, couldst thou suppose him not worthy of reverence, nor of that wisdom with which he was endued?'' |
14328 | But does their repute last for ever, even in the land of their origin? |
14328 | But how can it be that things foreseen should ever fail to come to pass? |
14328 | But how can man''s freedom be reconciled with God''s absolute foreknowledge? |
14328 | But how? |
14328 | But in this series of linked causes is there any freedom left to our will, or does the chain of fate bind also the very motions of our souls?'' |
14328 | But what if Sense and Imagination were to gainsay Thought, and declare that universal which Thought deems itself to behold to be nothing? |
14328 | But, close in fleshly wrappings held, The blinded mind of man can never Discern-- so faint her taper shines-- The subtle chain that all combines? |
14328 | But, tell me, dost thou remember the universal end towards which the aim of all nature is directed?'' |
14328 | Can it be that Thou disdainest Only man? |
14328 | Can not the rich feel hunger? |
14328 | Can not they thirst? |
14328 | Can the fame of a single Roman penetrate where the glory of the Roman name fails to pass? |
14328 | Can ye ever surpass the elephant in bulk or the bull in strength? |
14328 | Can ye excel the tiger in swiftness? |
14328 | Canst thou force from its due tranquillity the mind that is firmly composed by reason? |
14328 | Consequently, if anything is about to be, and yet its occurrence is not certain and necessary, how can anyone foreknow that it will occur? |
14328 | Did I not often in days of old, before my servant Plato lived, wage stern warfare with the rashness of folly? |
14328 | Did it make them fit accusers that my condemnation was a foregone conclusion? |
14328 | Did not all pronounce thee most happy in the virtues of thy wife, the splendid honours of her father, and the blessing of male issue? |
14328 | Did, then, high power a curb impose On Nero''s phrenzied will? |
14328 | Didst thou not learn in thy childhood how there stand at the threshold of Zeus''two jars,''''the one full of blessings, the other of calamities''? |
14328 | Do my words sink into thy mind? |
14328 | Do they fall into error who deem that which is best to be also best deserving to receive the homage of reverence? |
14328 | Do they know what they ought to follow, but lust drives them aside out of the way? |
14328 | Do ye never consider, ye creatures of earth, what ye are, and over whom ye exercise your fancied lordship? |
14328 | Does the act of vision add any necessity to the things which thou seest before thy eyes?'' |
14328 | Dost not see what infamy high position brings upon the bad? |
14328 | Dost thou count him to possess power whom thou seest to wish what he can not bring to pass? |
14328 | Dost thou imagine that which lacketh nothing can want power?'' |
14328 | Dost thou know me? |
14328 | Dost thou long for power? |
14328 | Dost thou venture to boast thyself of the beauty of any one of them? |
14328 | Doth not the very aspect of this place move thee? |
14328 | Else how could ye the answer due Untaught to questions give, Were''t not that deep within the soul Truth''s secret sparks do live? |
14328 | Else, whence come lawsuits, except in seeking to recover moneys which have been taken away against their owner''s will by force or fraud?'' |
14328 | For many have won a great name through the mistaken beliefs of the multitude-- and what can be imagined more shameful than that? |
14328 | For since nothing can be imagined better than God, how can we doubt Him to be good than whom there is nothing better? |
14328 | For this cause, not without reason, one of thy disciples asked,"If God exists, whence comes evil? |
14328 | For why do they forsake virtue and follow vice? |
14328 | Friends, why did ye once so lightly Vaunt me happy among men? |
14328 | Has fortune no shame-- if not at the accusation of the innocent, at least for the vileness of the accusers? |
14328 | Has it''scaped thee how Paullus paid a meed of pious tears to the misfortunes of King Perseus, his prisoner? |
14328 | Has man, then, any freedom, if the reign of law is thus absolute? |
14328 | Hath God decreed''twixt truth and truth There may such lasting warfare be, That truths, each severally plain, We strive to reconcile in vain? |
14328 | Have we no worth, We poor men, of all creation? |
14328 | Have we not counted independence in the category of happiness, and agreed that God is absolute happiness?'' |
14328 | Have ye no good of your own implanted within you, that ye seek your good in things external and separate? |
14328 | Have, then, offices of state such power as to plant virtue in the minds of their possessors, and drive out vice? |
14328 | How e''en when haply found Hail that strange form he never knew? |
14328 | How find? |
14328 | How if thou hast drawn over- liberally from the good jar? |
14328 | How in the world, then, can want be driven away by riches? |
14328 | How often have I encountered and balked Conigastus in his assaults on the fortunes of the weak? |
14328 | How often have I thwarted Trigguilla, steward of the king''s household, even when his villainous schemes were as good as accomplished? |
14328 | In what way, then, are we to suppose that God foreknows these uncertainties as about to come to pass? |
14328 | Indeed, of what avail are written records even, which, with their authors, are overtaken by the dimness of age after a somewhat longer time? |
14328 | Is glory thy aim? |
14328 | Is it from ignorance of what is good? |
14328 | Is it shame or amazement that hath struck thee dumb? |
14328 | Is it that thou, too, even as I, mayst be persecuted with false accusations?'' |
14328 | Is it thy endeavour to heap up money? |
14328 | Is not the cruelty of fortune against me plain enough? |
14328 | Is there anything more precious to thee than thyself? |
14328 | Is this the recompense of my obedience? |
14328 | Is this untrue? |
14328 | It is this: If one who had been many times consul chanced to visit barbaric lands, would his office win him the reverence of the barbarians? |
14328 | Knows he already what he seeks? |
14328 | Lastly, since every prize is desired because it is believed to be good, who can account him who possesses good to be without reward? |
14328 | Moreover, what is there that one man can do to another which he himself may not have to undergo in his turn? |
14328 | Nevertheless, to deprecate thy determination to be thought wretched, I ask thee, Hast thou forgotten the extent and bounds of thy felicity? |
14328 | Now, is any one of these movements compelled by any necessity?'' |
14328 | Now, tell me, since thou doubtest not that God governs the world, dost thou perceive by what means He rules it?'' |
14328 | Oh, why With rash and wilful hand provoke death''s destined day? |
14328 | Old? |
14328 | Or art thou dull"as the ass to the sound of the lyre"? |
14328 | Or do they knowingly and wilfully forsake the good and turn aside to vice? |
14328 | Or does he count the possibility of this loss a trifling matter? |
14328 | Or dost thou indeed set value on a happiness that is certain to depart? |
14328 | Or dost thou think otherwise?'' |
14328 | Or is it that man''s inmost soul Once knew each part and knew the whole? |
14328 | Or is it the glitter of gems that allures the eye? |
14328 | Or is renown to be thought of no account? |
14328 | Or is the discord not in truth, Since truth is self consistent ever? |
14328 | Perhaps thou wonderest what is the sum of the charges laid against me? |
14328 | See''st thou, then, how all things in cognizing use rather their own faculty than the faculty of the things which they cognize? |
14328 | Shall I admit it? |
14328 | Shall I call the wish for the preservation of that illustrious house a crime? |
14328 | Shall I deny the charge, lest I bring shame on thee? |
14328 | Shall man''s insatiate greed bind_ me_ to a constancy foreign to my character? |
14328 | Shall we go over to those whom we have shown to be like brute beasts? |
14328 | Shall we, then, deem them truly blessed Whom such preferment hath made great? |
14328 | Suppose, now, that in the mouse tribe there should rise up one claiming rights and powers for himself above the rest, would ye not laugh consumedly? |
14328 | The other for awhile affected to be patient, and, having endured to be abused, cried out derisively:"_ Now_, do you see that I am a philosopher?" |
14328 | Then I, gathering together what strength I could, began:''Is there still need of telling? |
14328 | Then art thou fain Clear and most plain Truth to discern, In the right way Firmly to stay, Nor from it turn? |
14328 | Then said she:''Have we not agreed that the good are happy, and the evil wretched?'' |
14328 | Then said she:''What value wouldst thou put upon the boon shouldst thou come to the knowledge of the absolute good?'' |
14328 | Then she:''Dost know nothing else that thou art?'' |
14328 | Then what bounds can e''er restrain This wild lust of having, When with each new bounty fed Grows the frantic craving? |
14328 | Then, is power not to be reckoned in the category of good? |
14328 | Then, thinkest thou that man hath any power who can not prevent another''s being able to do to him what he himself can do to others? |
14328 | Think you they are wrong who strive to escape want? |
14328 | Thinkest thou that now, for the first time in an evil age, Wisdom hath been assailed by peril? |
14328 | Thinkest thou there is any stability in human affairs, when man himself vanishes away in the swift course of time? |
14328 | To escape your mortal doom? |
14328 | V.''Well, then, does sovereignty and the intimacy of kings prove able to confer power? |
14328 | Well, what is more weak and feeble than the blindness of ignorance? |
14328 | Wert thou ignorant of my character? |
14328 | What are they but mere gold and heaps of money? |
14328 | What better is this than the absurd vaticination of Teiresias? |
14328 | What curse shall I call down On hearts so dull? |
14328 | What difference, then, thinkest thou, is there, whether thou leavest her by dying, or she leave thee by fleeing away?'' |
14328 | What else do tragedies make such woeful outcry over save the overthrow of kingdoms by the indiscriminate strokes of Fortune? |
14328 | What goods of thine have I taken from thee? |
14328 | What if not even now have I departed wholly from thee? |
14328 | What if this very mutability of mine is a just ground for hoping better things? |
14328 | What law can lovers move? |
14328 | What place can be left for random action, when God constraineth all things to order? |
14328 | What price wouldst thou not have given for this service in the fulness of thy prosperity when thou seemedst to thyself fortunate? |
14328 | What the power that doth restrain In his place the restless main, That within fixed bounds he keeps, Nor o''er earth in deluge sweeps? |
14328 | What to leaguèd peace hath bent Every warring element? |
14328 | What would exceed the rigour of this severity? |
14328 | What wrong have I done thee? |
14328 | What, then? |
14328 | Where are now the bones of stanch Fabricius? |
14328 | Wherefore doth the rosy morn Rise on Phoebus''car upborne? |
14328 | Wherefore, if wealth can not get rid of want, and makes new wants of its own, how can ye believe that it bestows independence?'' |
14328 | While if they are beautiful in their own nature, what is that to thee? |
14328 | Who can an unknown end pursue? |
14328 | Who is so blest by Fortune as not to wish to change his state, if once he gives rein to a rebellious spirit? |
14328 | Who was there to join these distinct essences? |
14328 | Why all this furious strife? |
14328 | Why are Nature''s changes bound To a fixed and ordered round? |
14328 | Why art thou moved with empty transports? |
14328 | Why art thou silent? |
14328 | Why boast ye, then, so loud of race and high ancestral line? |
14328 | Why do tears stream from thy eyes? |
14328 | Why do they all draw their nourishment from roots as from a mouth dipped into the earth, and distribute the strong bark over the pith? |
14328 | Why does a strange discordance break The ordered scheme''s fair harmony? |
14328 | Why does it so happen? |
14328 | Why dost thou weep? |
14328 | Why should Phoebe rule the night, Led by Hesper''s guiding light? |
14328 | Why toil to seek it, if he knows? |
14328 | Why, can that which is plainly more efficacious than anything else be esteemed a thing feeble and void of strength? |
14328 | Why, if she can not be kept at pleasure, and if her flight overwhelms with calamity, what is this fleeting visitant but a token of coming trouble? |
14328 | Why, if thou scannest the infinite spaces of eternity, what room hast thou left for rejoicing in the durability of thy name? |
14328 | Why, surely does not the happiness of kings endure for ever? |
14328 | Why, then, dost bemoan thyself? |
14328 | Why, then, shouldst thou feel affright At the tyrant''s weakling might? |
14328 | Why, what amplitude or magnificence has glory when confined to such narrow and petty limits? |
14328 | Why, what hope of freedom is left to us? |
14328 | Why, who enjoys such settled felicity as not to have some quarrel with the circumstances of his lot? |
14328 | Yes; but have men in real life such soundness of mind that their judgments of righteousness and wickedness must necessarily correspond with facts? |
14328 | Yet is any of these thy concern? |
14328 | Yet what rights can one exercise over another, save only as regards the body, and that which is lower than the body-- I mean fortune? |
14328 | Yet whence comes good, if He exists not?" |
14328 | Yet who does not scorn and contemn one who is the slave of the weakest and vilest of things-- the body? |
14328 | Yet who was it brought the charges by which I have been struck down? |
14328 | Yet, haply if he knoweth not, Why blindly seek he knows not what? |
14328 | Yet, when rank and power have fallen to the worst of men, did ever an Etna, belching forth flame and fiery deluge, work such mischief? |
14328 | [ G] What sort of power, then, is this which can not drive away the gnawings of anxiety, or shun the stings of terror? |
14328 | [ Q] Who for a good he knows not sighs? |
14328 | art thou but now come suddenly and a stranger to the scene of this life? |
14328 | art thou verily striving to stay the swing of the revolving wheel? |
14328 | had I deserved this by my way of life? |
14328 | is it_ thy_ fertility that swelleth in the fruits of autumn? |
14328 | then why burns man''s restless mind Truth''s hidden portals to unclose? |
14328 | why embracest thou an alien excellence as thine own? |
14328 | why,''I cried,''mistress of all excellence, hast thou come down from on high, and entered the solitude of this my exile? |
14328 | wilt thou bind with thy mandates the free spirit? |
8909 | _ If, then, it be enquired of him,_ can not God give to matter the faculty of thought?_ he will answer,_no! |
8909 | ARE NOT TRAITORS DISTINGUISHED BY PUBLIC HONORS? |
8909 | Adopting this supposition, it may be inquired, why Nature does not produce under our own eyes new beings-- new species? |
8909 | An unfaithful wife, does she outrage his heart? |
8909 | Are his organs sound? |
8909 | Are nations reduced to despair? |
8909 | Are these animals so indispensably requisite to Nature, that without them she can not continue her eternal course? |
8909 | Are these bonds cut asunder? |
8909 | Are they completely miserable? |
8909 | Are they not promised eternal salvation for their orthodoxy? |
8909 | Are they not the incessant dupes to their prejudices? |
8909 | Are we acquainted with the mechanism which produces attraction in some substances, repulsion in others? |
8909 | Are we in a condition to explain the communication of motion from one body to another? |
8909 | As soon as they are enriched by the means which you censure, are they not cherished, considered, and respected? |
8909 | At the same time nature refuses him every happiness, she opens to him a door by which he quits life; does he refuse to enter it? |
8909 | But does it depend on man to be sensible or not? |
8909 | But does not a profound sleep help to give him a true idea of this nothing? |
8909 | But has truth the power to injure him? |
8909 | But how can he foresee effects of which he has not yet any knowledge? |
8909 | But how can he, without experience, assure himself of the accuracy, of the justness of this association? |
8909 | But how has he become sensible? |
8909 | But in this case, does not the theologian, according to his own assertion, acknowledge himself to be the true atheist? |
8909 | But is not this organization itself the work of Nature? |
8909 | But it will be asked, and not a little triumphantly, from whence did she derive her motion? |
8909 | But it will be urged, has man always existed? |
8909 | But the question is, what gives birth to this idea in his brain? |
8909 | But what is the end? |
8909 | But what is the general direction, or common tendency, we see in all beings? |
8909 | But, how is he to acquire experience upon ideal objects, which his senses neither enable him to know nor to examine? |
8909 | But, what is it that constitutes climate? |
8909 | By what authority, then, do you object to my amassing treasure? |
8909 | Can I alter the received opinions of the world? |
8909 | Can any moral good spring from such blind assurance? |
8909 | Can be, with his dim optics, with his limited vision, fathom the human heart? |
8909 | Can he prevent his eyes, cast without design upon any object whatever, from giving him an idea of this object, from moving his brain? |
8909 | Can it not be perceived they are inherent in his nature? |
8909 | Can man at last flatter himself with having arrived at a fixed being, or must the human species again change? |
8909 | Can this imagination in one individual ever be the same as in another? |
8909 | Chagrin, remorse, melancholy, and despair, have they disfigured to him the spectacle of the universe? |
8909 | Do I not ardently love my God? |
8909 | Do I not behold, that no one is ashamed of adultery but the husband it has outraged? |
8909 | Do not nations unceasingly suffer from their follies? |
8909 | Do not thy follies, thy shameful habits, thy debaucheries, damage thine health? |
8909 | Do not thy vices every day dig thy grave? |
8909 | Do they not assure me that zeal is pleasing to him; that sanguinary inhuman persecutors have been his friends? |
8909 | Do they not know that they are hateful and contemptible? |
8909 | Do they wish to be undeceived? |
8909 | Do we not ourselves change? |
8909 | Does disgrace hold him out to the finger of scorn; does indigence menace him in an obdurate world? |
8909 | Does he not, in fact, circumscribe the attributes of the Deity, and deny his power, to suit his own purpose? |
8909 | Does it not appear to annihilate the universe to him, and him to the universe? |
8909 | Does it not furnish its disciples with the means of extricating themselves from the punishments with which it has so frequently menaced them? |
8909 | Does not Mahometanism cut off from all chance of future existence, consequently from all hope of reaching heaven, the female part of mankind? |
8909 | Does not all change around us? |
8909 | Does not either his happiness or his misery depend on the part he plays? |
8909 | Does not listlessness punish thee for thy satiated passions? |
8909 | Does not that deprive him of every thing? |
8909 | Dost thou not behold in those eccentric comets with which thine eyes are sometimes astonished, that the planets themselves are subject to death? |
8909 | Dost thou not know the Sesostris''s, the Alexanders, the Caesars are dead? |
8909 | Dost thou not linger out life in disgust, fatigued with thine own excesses? |
8909 | Each idea is an effect, but however difficult it may be to recur to the cause, can we possibly suppose it is not ascribable to a cause? |
8909 | Every time thou hast stained thyself with crime, hast thou dared without horror to return into thyself, to examine thine own conscience? |
8909 | From whence came these elements? |
8909 | From whence comes these opinions, which according to the theologians are so displeasing to God? |
8909 | Has any or the whole of them rendered him better, more enlightened to his duties, more faithful in their performance? |
8909 | Has he placed his happiness exclusively on some object which it is impossible for him to procure? |
8909 | Has not thy vigour, thy gaiety, thy content, already yielded to feebleness, crouched under infirmities, given place to regret? |
8909 | Has the human species existed from all eternity; or is it only an instantaneous production of Nature? |
8909 | Hast thou not dreaded the scrutiny of thy fellow man? |
8909 | Hast thou not found remorse, error, shame, established in thine heart? |
8909 | Have I not seen my fellow- citizens envy them-- the nobles of my country sacrifice every thing to obtain them? |
8909 | Have the Jews exalted no one to the celestial regions, save the virtuous? |
8909 | Have there been always men like ourselves? |
8909 | Have there been, in all times, males and females? |
8909 | Have they led him to the least acquaintance with the great_ Cause of Causes?_ Alas! |
8909 | Have they not remorse? |
8909 | Have they not, then, a consciousness of their own iniquities? |
8909 | He adds from himself,"who knows, if to live, be not to die; and if to die, be not to live?" |
8909 | His ignorance, his prejudices, his imbecility, his vices, his passions, his weakness, are they not the inevitable consequence of vicious institutions? |
8909 | His physical evils, are they violent? |
8909 | How can a being without extent be moveable; how put matter in action? |
8909 | How can a substance devoid of parts, correspond successively with different parts of space? |
8909 | How can he judge whether there objects be favorable or prejudicial to him? |
8909 | How can it cease to think? |
8909 | How could man occupy himself with a perishable world, ready every moment to crumble into atoms? |
8909 | How dream of rendering himself happy on earth, when it is only the porch to an eternal kingdom? |
8909 | How is he to assure himself of the existence, how ascertain the qualities of beings he is not able to feel? |
8909 | How much pain, how much anxiety, has he not endured in this perpetual conflict with himself? |
8909 | How, if he does not reiterate this experience, can he compare it? |
8909 | However this may be, the sensibility of the brain, and all its parts, is a fact: if it be asked, whence comes this property? |
8909 | I agree to it without any difficulty: but in reply, I again ask, Is his nature susceptible of this modification? |
8909 | If his senses are vitiated, how is it possible they can convey to him with precision, the sensations, the facts, with which they store his brain? |
8909 | If however it be asked, what is a spirit? |
8909 | If it be enquired how, or for why, matter exists? |
8909 | If it be inquired, whence proceeds the motion that agitates matter? |
8909 | If it was asserted,"All men naturally desire to be rich; therefore all men will one day be rich,"how many partizans would this doctrine find? |
8909 | If our country is attacked, do we not voluntarily sacrifice our lives in its defence? |
8909 | If the calendar of the Romish saints was examined, would it be found to contain none but righteous, none but good men? |
8909 | If we can only form ideas of material substances, how can we suppose the cause of our ideas can possibly be immaterial? |
8909 | If, again, it be asked, what origin we give to beings of the human species? |
8909 | If, then, it be demanded, whence came man? |
8909 | If, therefore, it be asked, whence came matter? |
8909 | In a passage reported by Arrian, he says,"but where are you going? |
8909 | In attributing to spirits the phenomena of Nature, as well as those of the human body, do we, in fact, do any thing more than reason like savages? |
8909 | In fact, will not every thing conduct to indulgence the fatalist whom experience has convinced of the necessity of things? |
8909 | In the country I inhabit, do I not see all my fellow- citizens covetous of riches? |
8909 | In the puissant Nature that environs thee, shalt thou pretend to be the only being who is able to resist her power? |
8909 | In thy actual being, art not thou submitted to continual alterations? |
8909 | In what moment is he a free agent? |
8909 | Indeed what is his soul, save the principle of sensibility? |
8909 | Indeed, how can we flatter ourselves we shall ever be enabled to compass the true principle of that gravity by which a stone falls? |
8909 | Indeed, what right have we to hate or despise man for his opinions? |
8909 | Is death any thing more than a profound, a permanent steep? |
8909 | Is erring, feeble man, with all his imbecilities, competent to form a judgment of the heavenly deserts of his fellows? |
8909 | Is he master of feeling or not feeling pain? |
8909 | Is he not obliged to play a part against his will? |
8909 | Is he not sufficiently punished by the multitude of evils that afflict him on every side? |
8909 | Is he the master of desiring or not desiring an object that appears desirable to him? |
8909 | Is he the master of preventing the qualities which render an object desirable from residing in it? |
8909 | Is he the master of willing, not to withdraw his hand from the fire when he fears it will be burnt? |
8909 | Is it consistent with sound doctrine, with philosophy, or with reason? |
8909 | Is it in his power to add to these consequences all the weight necessary to counterbalance his desire? |
8909 | Is it not evident that the whole universe has not been, in its anterior eternal duration, rigorously the same that it now is? |
8909 | Is it not this divine being who chooses and rejects? |
8909 | Is it possible that evil can result to man from a correct understanding of the relations he has with other beings? |
8909 | Is man more the master of his opinions? |
8909 | Is not God the absolute master of their destiny? |
8909 | Is not Mahomet himself enthroned in the empyrean by this superstition? |
8909 | Is not Nature herself a vast machine, of which the human species is but a very feeble spring? |
8909 | Is not audacious crime encouraged? |
8909 | Is not compassion laughed to scorn? |
8909 | Is not cunning vice rewarded? |
8909 | Is not honesty contemned? |
8909 | Is not its descent the necessary effect of its own specific gravity? |
8909 | Is not love of the public weal taxed as folly; exactitude in fulfilling duties looked upon as a bubble? |
8909 | Is not man brought into existence without his own knowledge? |
8909 | Is not subtle intrigue eulogized? |
8909 | Is not virtue discouraged? |
8909 | Is their condition happy? |
8909 | Is there any thing in the world that perishes totally?" |
8909 | Is there one wicked individual who enjoys a pure, an unmixed, a real happiness? |
8909 | Is this species without beginning? |
8909 | Is virtue in this situation amongst men? |
8909 | It may be asked of man, is he any thing more than matter combined, of which the former varies every instant? |
8909 | It ought not to excite surprise if such a system is of no efficacy; what can reasonably be the result of such an hypothesis? |
8909 | It will be asked, perhaps, by what road has man been conducted to form to himself these gratuitous ideas of another world? |
8909 | Justice, does she hold her scales with a firm, with an even hand, between all the citizens of the state? |
8909 | Let us see if it is a barren speculation, that his not any influence upon the felicity of the human race? |
8909 | Might it not be a question to the Malebranchists, was it in the Divinity that SPINOZA beheld his system? |
8909 | Mistaken the laws of Nature, did I say? |
8909 | Nevertheless, how many persons say they are, and even believe themselves, restrained by the fears of the life to come? |
8909 | On the other hand, does not superstition itself, does not even religion, annihilate the effects of those fears which it announces as salutary? |
8909 | Or has he the power to take away from fire the property which makes him fear it? |
8909 | Perfidious friends, do they forsake him in adversity? |
8909 | Rebellious, ungrateful children, do they afflict his old age? |
8909 | Religion, which alone pretends to regulate his manners, does it render him sociable-- does it make him pacific-- does it teach him to be humane? |
8909 | Society, or those who represent it, do they use him with harshness, do they treat him with injustice, do they render his existence painful? |
8909 | Suppose the argument retorted on them; would it be believed? |
8909 | That those who do not think as I do are his enemies? |
8909 | The arbiters, the sovereigns of society, are they faithful in recompensing, punctual in rewarding, those who have best served their country? |
8909 | The examples spread before him, are they suitable to innocence and manners? |
8909 | The laws, do they never support the strong against the weak-- favor the rich against the poor-- uphold the happy against the miserable? |
8909 | The motion or impulse to action, of which he is susceptible, is that not physical? |
8909 | The question then arises, how can we conceive such a substance, which is only the negation of every thing of which we have a knowledge? |
8909 | The species itself, is it indestructible, or does it pass away like its individuals? |
8909 | The_ choleric_ man vociferates,--You advise me to put a curb on my passions; to resist the desire of avenging myself: but can I conquer my nature? |
8909 | Thou pretendest to exist for ever; whit thou, then, that for thee alone eternal Nature shall change her undeviating course? |
8909 | Thus the organic structure once destroyed, can it be reasonably doubted the soul will be destroyed also? |
8909 | Thus, when even the soul should be admitted to be immaterial, what conclusion must be drawn? |
8909 | Thus, when it shall be inquired, what is man? |
8909 | Was Constantine, was St. Cyril, was St. Athanasius, was St. Dominic, worthy beatification? |
8909 | Was the animal anterior to the egg, or did the egg precede the animal? |
8909 | Was there a first man, from whom all others are descended? |
8909 | Were Jupiter, Thor, Mercury, Woden, and a thousand others, deserving of celestial diadems? |
8909 | What absurdity then, or what want of just inference would there be, to imagine that the man, the horse, the fish, the bird, will be no more? |
8909 | What are these, but notions which he must necessarily put aside, in order that human association may subsist? |
8909 | What benefit could arise from education itself? |
8909 | What did I say? |
8909 | What did I say? |
8909 | What do I say? |
8909 | What do I say? |
8909 | What does it present to the mind, but a substance which possesses nothing of which our senses enable us to have a knowledge? |
8909 | What does the man in power, except shew to others, that he is in a state to supply the requisites to render them happy? |
8909 | What harmony, what unison, then, can possibly exist between them, when they discourse with each other, upon objects only known to their imagination? |
8909 | What is it that represents the word_ intelligence_, if he does not connect it with a certain mode of being and of acting? |
8909 | What is it, to think, to enjoy, to suffer; is it not to feel? |
8909 | What is life, except it be the assemblage of modifications, the congregation of motion, peculiar to an organized being? |
8909 | What is the aim of man in the sphere he occupies? |
8909 | What is the object that unites all these qualities? |
8909 | What is the visible and known end of all their motion? |
8909 | What is there that is terrible or grievous in that? |
8909 | What it is that authorizes them to believe this sterility in Nature? |
8909 | What moral reliance ought we to have on such people? |
8909 | What motive, indeed, except it be this, remains for him in the greater part of human societies? |
8909 | What the scale by which to measure who has the best regulated imagination? |
8909 | What, then, must be the diversity of these ideas, if the objects meditated upon do not act upon the senses? |
8909 | What, then, shall be, the common standard that shall decide which is the man that thinks with the greatest justice? |
8909 | When Samson wished to be revenged on the Philistines, did he not consent to die with them as the only means? |
8909 | When a theologian, obstinately bent on admitting into man two substances essentially different, is asked why he multiplies beings without necessity? |
8909 | When the father either menaces his son with punishment, or promises him a reward, is he not convinced these things will act upon his will? |
8909 | When to resolve these problems, man is obliged to have recourse to miracles or to make the Divinity interfere, does he not avow his own ignorance? |
8909 | Where are now the priests of Apollo, of Juno, of the Sun, and a thousand others? |
8909 | Wherefore is it not exacted that all men shall have the same features? |
8909 | Will it also be without end? |
8909 | Will the assertion be ventured, that the stone and earth do not act? |
8909 | Will there always be such? |
8909 | Will you have me renounce my happiness? |
8909 | With respect to those who may ask why Nature does not produce new beings? |
8909 | You call my pleasures disgraceful; but in the country in which I live, do I not witness the most dissipated men enjoying the most distinguished rank? |
8909 | and what is its end? |
8909 | but do I not also witness that they are little scrupulous in the means of obtaining wealth? |
8909 | do not I see men making trophies of their debaucheries, boasting of their libertinism, rewarded, with applause? |
8909 | does not every thing tell me, that in this world money is the greatest blessing; that it is amply sufficient to render me happy? |
8909 | dost thou not see all the threads which enchain thee? |
8909 | has he the power either to prevent it from presenting itself, or from renewing itself in his brain? |
8909 | his experience will be true: are they unsound? |
8909 | how prove its truth? |
8909 | in punishing those who have pillaged, who have robbed, who have plundered, who have divided, who have ruined it? |
8909 | that it is impossible, in its posterior eternal duration, it can be rigidly in the same state that it now is for a single instant? |
8909 | we may enquire of them in turn, upon what foundation they suppose this fact? |
8909 | what advantage will he discover in restraining the fury of his passions? |
8909 | what right have you to prevent my using means, which although you call them sordid and criminal, I see approved by the sovereign? |
8909 | wilt thou never conceive, that thou art but an ephemeron? |
8910 | _ We may fairly inquire what is this Being? 8910 A theist, very estimable for his talents, asks,if there can be any other cause than an evil disposition, which can make men atheists?" |
8910 | Above all, when there is a question of its own interests, does it not dispense with engagements, however solemn, made with those whom it condemns? |
8910 | Again, is it an ascertained fact, does experience warrant the conclusion, that superstition has a useful influence over the morals of the people? |
8910 | Again, upon what do they found the existence of these theories, by whose aid they pretend to solve all difficulties? |
8910 | Again; do we not see that either enthusiasm or interest is the only standard of their decisions? |
8910 | Are not the most horrid crimes perpetrated in all parts of the world? |
8910 | Are not the sovereigns of almost every country in a continual state of warfare with their subjects? |
8910 | Are not those dreamers, who are incapable of attaching any one positive idea to the causes of which they unceasingly speak, true deniers? |
8910 | Are not those visionaries, who make a pure nothing the source of all beings, men really groping in the dark? |
8910 | Are not those who have thus given loose to their imagination, who have given birth to this system, themselves men? |
8910 | Are they agreed upon the conduct to be adopted; upon the manner of explaining their texts; upon the interpretation of the various oracles? |
8910 | Are they also to be ascribed to the Divinity, because we do not refuse him qualities possessed by his creatures? |
8910 | Are they ever contented with the proofs offered by their colleagues? |
8910 | Are they in a condition to maturely weigh theories that require the utmost depth of thought? |
8910 | Are they not delirious fanatics, on whom the law, dictated by the most inhuman prejudices, imposes the necessity of acting like ferocious brutes? |
8910 | Are they not savage tyrants, who have the rank injustice to violate thought; who have the folly to believe they can enslave it? |
8910 | Are they, in fact, in a condition to be charged with this knowledge? |
8910 | Are we better acquainted with the cause of polar attraction? |
8910 | Are we in a condition to explain the phenomena of light, electricity, elasticity? |
8910 | Are, therefore, the philosophers atheists, because they do not reply, it is God who is the author of these effects? |
8910 | As soon as they subscribe to a principle fatally opposed to reason, by what right do they dispute its consequences, however absurd they may be found? |
8910 | Besides, wherefore should we leave it to the judgment of men, who are, themselves, only enabled to act after our manner? |
8910 | But are not these gods the thing in question? |
8910 | But does he not frequently offer up his thanksgivings for actions that overwhelm his neighbour with misery? |
8910 | But does this afford us one single, correct idea of the_ Divinity_? |
8910 | But is it possible to derogate from the necessary laws of existence? |
8910 | But is not this wilful idleness? |
8910 | But what is this grace? |
8910 | But what is this man, who is so foully calumniated as an atheist? |
8910 | But where are the people or the clergy who will allow, either that their Divinity is false, or their worship irrational? |
8910 | But where is the necessity for mystery in points of such vast importance? |
8910 | But wherefore, it might be inquired, should I take this system upon your authority? |
8910 | But, seriously, does this prove that they do not deceive? |
8910 | Can any thing be more rational than to probe to the core these astounding theories? |
8910 | Can it make man either better or worse, that he should consider the whole that exists as material? |
8910 | Can it really be that reason is dangerous? |
8910 | Can men have stronger motives for the practise of virtue? |
8910 | Can that which exists necessarily, act but according to the laws peculiar to itself? |
8910 | Can they shew the test that will lead to an acquaintance with them? |
8910 | Can we at all flatter ourselves that to please us, to gratify our discordant wishes, he will alter his immutable laws? |
8910 | Can we conceive that immateriality could ever draw matter from its own source? |
8910 | Can we imagine that at our entreaty he will take from the beings who surround us their essences, their properties, their various modes of action? |
8910 | Can we, or can we not admit their argument to be conclusive, such as ought to be received by beings who think themselves sane? |
8910 | Could I, by the aid of these senses, discover thy spiritual essence, of which no one could furnish me any idea? |
8910 | Could atheists, however irrational they may be supposed, if assembled together in society, conduct themselves in a more criminal manner? |
8910 | Could the great_ Cause of causes_ make the whole, without also making its part? |
8910 | Did princes really become more powerful; were nations rendered more happy; did they grow more flourishing; did men become more rational? |
8910 | Did the morals of the people improve under the pastoral care of these guides, who were so liberally rewarded? |
8910 | Do not all your oracles breathe inconsistency? |
8910 | Do they ever last longer than for the season of their convenience? |
8910 | Do they unanimously subscribe to each other''s ideas? |
8910 | Do we find substantive virtues adorn those who most abjectly submit themselves to all the follies of superstition? |
8910 | Do we know why the magnet attracts iron? |
8910 | Do we understand the mechanism by which that modification of our brain, which we tall volition, puts our arm or our legs into motion? |
8910 | Does he, in fact, do more than collect together that which becomes, in consequence of its association, perfectly unintelligible? |
8910 | Does it procure for its agents the marvellous faculty of having distinct ideas of beings composed of so many contradictory properties? |
8910 | Does not the disproportion, of which they speak with such amazing confidence, attach to themselves as well as to others? |
8910 | Does not their more sober judgment unceasingly condemn the extravagancies to which their undisciplined passions deliver them up? |
8910 | Does not this somewhat remind us of what Rabelais describes as the employment of Queen Whim''s officers, in his fifth book and twenty- second chapter? |
8910 | Does then theology impart to the mind the ineffable boon of enabling it to conceive that which no man is competent to understand? |
8910 | Does, he, however, elucidate his embarrassments, by submitting her action to the agency of a being of which he makes himself the model? |
8910 | Dost thou not behold ambition tormented day and night, with an ardour which nothing can extinguish? |
8910 | Generally speaking, is there the least sincerity in the alliances which these rulers form among themselves? |
8910 | Granted: but is he quite certain these oracles have emanated from themselves? |
8910 | Granted: who has ever doubted it? |
8910 | Has he laid down false principles? |
8910 | Has it not in a great measure confounded the notions of virtue and vice, of justice and injustice? |
8910 | Has it not legitimatized murder; given a system to perfidy; organized rebellion; made a virtue of regicide? |
8910 | Has it not, in many instances, rendered the most essential duties of our nature problematical? |
8910 | Has it not, on the contrary, had a tendency to obscure the wore certain science of morals? |
8910 | Has not its altars been drenched with human gore? |
8910 | Has the human understanding progressed a single step by the assistance of this metaphysical science? |
8910 | Have I been able to render homage to the justice of thy priests, whilst I so frequently beheld crime triumphant, virtue in tears? |
8910 | Have they flattered thee that thou art something supernatural? |
8910 | Have they sufficiently reflected on the tendency of this mode of reasoning? |
8910 | Have they then assured thee that thou art a god? |
8910 | He gives it thought and intelligence, but how conceive these qualities without a subject to which they may adhere? |
8910 | How are we to know that? |
8910 | How can a corporeal being make an incorporeal being experience incommodious sensations? |
8910 | How can he imitate that goodness, that justice, that mercy, which does not resemble either his own, or any thing he can conceive? |
8910 | How can it even be conceived by mortals? |
8910 | How can it give impulse to matter, how set it in motion? |
8910 | How can the gross organs of the one, comprehend the subtile quality of the other? |
8910 | How can these happy effects ever be expected from the polluted fountains of superstition, whose waters do nothing more than degrade mankind? |
8910 | How can we acquire a knowledge of their will? |
8910 | How could he perceive the beautiful order which they had introduced into the world, while he groaned under such a multitude of calamities? |
8910 | How did he discover the end proposed by the Deity? |
8910 | How do we understand this term? |
8910 | How do you become acquainted with these impenetrable mysteries? |
8910 | How doth it act upon man? |
8910 | How follow a conduct suitable to please them-- to render himself acceptable in their sight? |
8910 | How formidable a foe must not outraged reason be to falsehood? |
8910 | How is he to judge now? |
8910 | How make an immaterial being, who has neither organs, space, point, or contact, understand that modification of matter called voice? |
8910 | How shall it be decided who is right, or who is wrong? |
8910 | How shall we attribute anger to beings without either blood or bile? |
8910 | How shall we know what is agreeable to a Divinity who is incomprehensible to all men? |
8910 | How then am I to understand immaterial substance? |
8910 | How then can he be induced to call men just who act after this manner? |
8910 | How then does he measure out his ideas of justice? |
8910 | How then is he to form his judgment of beings who are represented to possess both in the extremest degree? |
8910 | How was he able to discern the beneficence of men whom he beheld sporting as it were with his species? |
8910 | How will the metaphysicians draw themselves out of this perplexing intricacy? |
8910 | However this may be, we must ever inquire, Why this should not be matter? |
8910 | If after this it be asked, What is the end of nature? |
8910 | If he asked, Wherefore his reason had then been given him, since he was not to use it in matters of such high behest? |
8910 | If he does not equally partake of them with the other beings in nature? |
8910 | If it be demanded, How can we figure to ourselves, that matter by its own peculiar energy can produce all the effects we witness? |
8910 | If it be necessary to judge the opinions of mankind according to their conduct, which is the theory that would bear the scrutiny? |
8910 | If the knowledge of these systems be the most necessary thing, wherefore are they not more evident, more consistent, more manifest? |
8910 | If their gods are infinitely good, wherefore should we dread them? |
8910 | If their grace works every thing in man, what reason can there be why he should be rewarded? |
8910 | If then it be demanded, Wherefore she exists? |
8910 | If there is, which are the spurious, which are the genuine? |
8910 | If therefore we were to form our judgments after our own puny ideas of wisdom, what should we say? |
8910 | If these beings are spirits that are immaterial, how can they be able to act like man, who is a corporeal being? |
8910 | If these ways are impenetrable, by what means did he acquire his knowledge of them? |
8910 | If they are immutable, by what right shall we pretend to make them change their decrees? |
8910 | If they are inconceivable, wherefore should we occupy ourselves with them? |
8910 | If they are infinitely wise, what reason have we to disturb ourselves with our condition? |
8910 | If they are just, upon what foundation believe that they will punish those creatures whom they have filled with imbecility? |
8910 | If they are lords of all, why make sacrifices to them; why bring them offerings of what already belongs to them? |
8910 | If they are omnipotent, how can they be offended; how can we resist them? |
8910 | If they are omnipresent, of what use can it be to erect temples to them? |
8910 | If they are omniscient, wherefore inform them of our wants, why fatigue them with our requests? |
8910 | If they are rational, how can the enrage themselves against blind mortals, to whom they have left the liberty of acting irrationally? |
8910 | If they are so different in their detail, may there not be reasonable ground for suspecting some of them are not authentic? |
8910 | If this argument was to be admitted, are they aware how far it, would carry them? |
8910 | If this be admitted as a postulatum, are they prepared to follow it in all its extent? |
8910 | If this substance be spiritual, that is, devoid of extent, how can there exist in it any parts? |
8910 | If we grant his position, what is the result? |
8910 | In fact, does not superstition sometimes inculcate perfidy; prescribe violation of plighted faith? |
8910 | In reply it will be said, somewhat triumphantly, each man hath his ideas of the sun, do all these suns exist? |
8910 | In short, has it not been the signal for the most dismal follies, the most wicked outrages, the most horrible massacres? |
8910 | In the_ second_ place, which set of these oracular developements are we to adopt? |
8910 | Indeed what has resulted from the confused alliance, from the marvellous speculations, which theology has made with the most substantive realities? |
8910 | Indeed, do we not every day behold mortals in contradiction with themselves? |
8910 | Indeed, what is virtue, in the eyes of the generality of theologians? |
8910 | Ingenuously, is it possible for man to form any true notion of such a quality? |
8910 | Is he matter and motion, or is he only space or the vacuum? |
8910 | Is he willing, adopting their own hypothesis, that evil should be committed, or can he not prevent it? |
8910 | Is his system fallacious? |
8910 | Is it in the doctrines which these codes hold forth, that he is to seek for a model? |
8910 | Is it independent of its own peculiar essence, or of those properties which constitute it such as it is? |
8910 | Is it not a derogation from the severe rules of an exact, a rigorous justice, which causes a remission of some part of a merited punishment? |
8910 | Is it not inconsistent with our nature? |
8910 | Is it not just, he exclaims, to thank the Divinity for his kindness? |
8910 | Is it not to ask him to alter the eternal decrees of his justice; to change the invariable laws which he hath himself determined? |
8910 | Is it not, according to these definitions, that which can not couple together? |
8910 | Is it not, in fact, announcing these beings to be men like ourselves, who act with our imperfections on an enlarged scale? |
8910 | Is it not, in other words, to accuse him with neglecting his creatures? |
8910 | Is it ridiculous? |
8910 | Is it, then, delirium to prefer the known to the unknown? |
8910 | Is not bread the result of the combination of flour, yeast and water? |
8910 | Is not the virtuous man, from thence in a condition to ardently desire the existence of a system that remunerates the goodness of men? |
8910 | Is not this formally asserting that nature herself is God? |
8910 | Is not this, in fact, the duty we owe to the great, the universal Parent? |
8910 | Is not vice frequently triumphant, and virtue compelled to seek her own reward in retirement? |
8910 | Is there any one who has sufficient compass of comprehension to ascertain the advantages that result from the evils that besiege us on all sides? |
8910 | Is there any thing imaginable wore wild and extravagant amongst those in bedlam than this would be?" |
8910 | Is there then no remorse but for those who believe in incomprehensible systems? |
8910 | Is this question answered by heaping together the estimable qualities of man? |
8910 | Is what is termed Atheism, compatible with Morality? |
8910 | Let us seriously ask him, if he does not witness good constantly blended with evil? |
8910 | Must, then, the work be more perfect than the workman? |
8910 | Of the motives which lead to what is falsely called Atheism.--Can this System be dangerous?--Can it be embraced by the Illiterate? |
8910 | On the other hand, what could we expect from such a being, as they have supposed him to be? |
8910 | On this again, there arises two almost insuperable difficulties, in the_ first_ place, who shall assure us of their actual mission? |
8910 | Or is it a truth that you yourself are not a man, but one of those impenetrable beings whom you say you represent? |
8910 | Ought we not rather to redouble our efforts to penetrate the cause of those phenomena which strike our mind? |
8910 | Shall God, who made the eye, not himself see? |
8910 | Shall it be interior or exterior to his production? |
8910 | Suppose their argument granted, what is to be done with all those other qualities upon which man does not set so high a value? |
8910 | The most rational people argue thus:"What shall I do? |
8910 | The necessary Being of which question is here made, doth he find no obstacles to the execution of the projects which are attributed to him? |
8910 | The next question would naturally be, When, where, or to whom have these oracles spoken? |
8910 | There is nothing but superstitious follies that are pernicious to mortals; and wherefore? |
8910 | This granted, I shall inquire if matter exists; if it does not at least occupy a portion of space? |
8910 | This granted, are they nearer the point at which they labour? |
8910 | Thus each man has his God: But do all these gods exist? |
8910 | To what purpose do ye scatter thorns on the road of life? |
8910 | To what purpose then is it they speak of these things to others? |
8910 | Under such instructors what could become of youth? |
8910 | Upon this principle, how many atheists ought there to be? |
8910 | Upon what foundation do you attribute virtues which you can not penetrate? |
8910 | Very good: Is it then actually in the system of fanatics, that man should draw up his ideas of virtue? |
8910 | Was not Pandora''s box, though stuffed with evils, trifling when compared with this? |
8910 | We agree to it without hesitation; but, ingenuously, are the letters which compose a poem thrown with the hand in the manner of dice? |
8910 | We are ignorant of the mode in which even plants vegetate, how then be acquainted with that which has no affinity with ourselves? |
8910 | What advantage, then, has resulted to the human race from those opinions, so universal, at the same time so barren? |
8910 | What advantages can ye derive from systems with which the united efforts of the whole human species have not been competent to bring ye acquainted? |
8910 | What are the relations that can be supposed to exist between such very dissimilar beings? |
8910 | What avails it, that ye multiply those sorrows to which your destiny exposes ye? |
8910 | What barrier could superstition, with its imaginary motives, oppose to the general corruption? |
8910 | What conclusion, then, ought fairly, rationally, consistently, to be drawn from the whole? |
8910 | What could we consistently ask of him? |
8910 | What do I say? |
8910 | What do I say? |
8910 | What end, then, do oaths answer? |
8910 | What exposition of morality does the theories, upon which ye found all the virtue, present to man? |
8910 | What idea do we attach to mercy? |
8910 | What idea do you form to yourself of a justice that never resembles that of man? |
8910 | What idea, however, can be formed of a being who is resembled by nothing of which we have any knowledge? |
8910 | What ideas must mortals, thus overwhelmed with terror, form to themselves of the irresistible cause that could produce such extended effects? |
8910 | What interest can so many persons have to deceive?" |
8910 | What is our sun compared to those myriads of suns which at immense distances occupy the regions of space? |
8910 | What is the conduct of our adversaries? |
8910 | What is the human race compared to the earth? |
8910 | What is this earth compared to the sun? |
8910 | What is this, then, but that which no man can explain or comprehend? |
8910 | What is to be understood by either this virtue or this energy? |
8910 | What morality is this, but that of men who offer themselves as living images, as animated representatives of the Divinity? |
8910 | What motives can I have to submit my reason to thy delirium? |
8910 | What must be the inference from all this? |
8910 | What must have been the inquietude of a people taken thus unprovided, who fancied they saw nature cruelly labouring to their annihilation? |
8910 | What results from all this to a rational man? |
8910 | What standard is it necessary man should possess, to enable him to judge of these substances? |
8910 | What then is its effect? |
8910 | What was the fruit that kings and people gathered from their imprudent kindness? |
8910 | What was the harvest these men yielded to their labour? |
8910 | What was the result? |
8910 | When we have given this answer, what have we said? |
8910 | Where are these oracles? |
8910 | Where can be the propriety of such an argument? |
8910 | Where is the man filled with kindness, endowed with humanity, who does not desire with all his heart to render his fellow creatures happy? |
8910 | Where then are the beneficial effects arising, to mankind from the promulgation of this doctrine? |
8910 | Where, then, are the web who are convinced of the rectitude of these systems? |
8910 | Wherefore annihilate to me a being, whose consoling idea dries up the source of my tears-- who serves to calm my sorrows? |
8910 | Wherefore do ye not follow in peace, the simple, easy route marked out for ye by nature? |
8910 | Wherefore quit nature, which had already explained to you so much? |
8910 | Wherefore, then, do they not in all things conform themselves? |
8910 | Who are those in whom we shall find the complete certitude of these truths, so important to all? |
8910 | Who is he who would not be a plant or a stone, every time reminiscence forces upon his imagination the irreparable loss of a beloved object? |
8910 | Who is the man, that understandeth any thing of the fundamental principles of these systems? |
8910 | Who is to measure the precise quantity of misery required to derive a certain portion of good? |
8910 | Who is to say when the measure of evil will be full which it is necessary to suffer? |
8910 | Who rather will not confess that it presents a picture of human nature, where every heart may find some corresponding harmony? |
8910 | Whose capacity embraces spirituality, immateriality, incorporeity, or the mysteries of which he is every day informed? |
8910 | Why do they attempt descriptions of that which they allow to be indescribable? |
8910 | Why, in point of fact, just what the man does, who, thinking he has had too much rain, implores fine weather? |
8910 | Will Doctor Clarke permit us to put one simple question: If to be obligated to do a certain given thing, is to be free, what is it to be coerced? |
8910 | Will it in any manner make him a worse subject to his sovereign; a worse father to his children; a more unkind husband; a more faithless friend? |
8910 | Will it require any capacity, more than is the common lot of a child, to comprehend the absurd contradiction of the two assertions? |
8910 | Will the assertion of either Clarke or Plato stand absolutely in place of all evidence? |
8910 | Would not every rational man have a right to ask the priest, where is thy superiority in matters of reasoning? |
8910 | Would they themselves permit such to be convincing if used against them? |
8910 | Would this be a desirable state? |
8910 | XI Defence of the Sentiments contained in this Work.--Of Impiety.--Do there exist Atheists? |
8910 | are we quite certain none of them may be mistaken? |
8910 | how shall we be justified in giving credence to their powers? |
8910 | of mixing up its evanescent conjectures with the confirmed aphorisms of time? |
8910 | refuse to the Divinity, those qualities we discover in his creatures? |
8910 | that their morals are as variable as their caprice? |
8910 | would it be that from which humanity has the best founded prospect of that felicity, which is the desired object of his research? |
13316 | Adipiscuntur igitur boni quod appetunt? |
13316 | Ambulandi,inquit,"motum secundum naturam esse hominibus num negabis?" |
13316 | An etiam causas, cur i d ita sit, deprehendisti? |
13316 | An,inquit illa,"te alumne desererem nec sarcinam quam mei nominis inuidia sustulisti, communicato tecum labore partirer? |
13316 | And doth not a man want that,quoth she,"which he desireth?" |
13316 | And how can it be that, knowing the beginning, thou canst be ignorant of the end? 13316 And it is many ways clear that the vicious are miserable?" |
13316 | And makest thou any doubt that the function of it doth naturally belong to the feet? |
13316 | And what of the other which, being unpleasing, restraineth the evil with just punishment, doth not the people think it good? |
13316 | And what other manner shall this be,quoth I,"besides these?" |
13316 | And wilt thou doubt that he could, whom thou seest bring to pass what he desired? |
13316 | Atqui non egeret eo, nisi possideret pecuniam quam posset amittere? |
13316 | Atqui scis unde cuncta processerint? |
13316 | Bona igitur? |
13316 | But dost thou grant that all that is good is good by partaking goodness? |
13316 | But he should not need that help, unless he had money which he might lose? |
13316 | But he that wanteth anything is not altogether sufficient of himself? |
13316 | But it is granted that the chiefest good is blessedness? |
13316 | But knowest thou from whence all things had their beginning? |
13316 | But that fortune which either exerciseth or correcteth is profitable? |
13316 | But what account wilt thou make,quoth she,"to know what goodness itself is?" |
13316 | Can God do evil? |
13316 | Deniest thou,quoth she,"that every wicked man deserveth punishment?" |
13316 | Do we not think,quoth she,"that blessedness is good?" |
13316 | Dost thou ask me if I know that I am a reasonable and mortal living creature? 13316 Dost thou imagine that there is any mortal or frail thing which can cause this happy estate?" |
13316 | Dost thou not think then that that is good which is profitable? |
13316 | Egebit igitur,inquit,"extrinsecus petito praesidio quo suam pecuniam quisque tueatur?" |
13316 | Eget uero,inquit,"eo quod quisque desiderat?" |
13316 | Eiusque rei pedum officium esse naturale num dubitas? |
13316 | Essene aliquid in his mortalibus caducisque rebus putas quod huiusmodi statum possit afferre? |
13316 | Est igitur,inquit,"aliquis qui omnia posse homines putet?" |
13316 | Estne igitur,inquit,"quod in quantum naturaliter agat relicta subsistendi appetentia uenire ad interitum corruptionemque desideret?" |
13316 | Et qui fieri potest, ut principio cognito quis sit rerum finis ignores? 13316 Et qui i d,"inquam,"fieri potest?" |
13316 | Et quid,inquam,"tu in has exilii nostri solitudines o omnium magistra uirtutum supero cardine delapsa uenisti? |
13316 | Et quis erit,inquam,"praeter hos alius modus?" |
13316 | Hast thou also understood the causes why it is so? |
13316 | Have we not granted,quoth she,"that the good are happy, and the evil miserable?" |
13316 | Hocine interrogas an esse me sciam rationale animal atque mortale? 13316 How can that be?" |
13316 | How is this? |
13316 | How? |
13316 | How? |
13316 | How? |
13316 | If then,quoth she,"thou wert to examine this cause, whom wouldest thou appoint to be punished, him that did or that suffered wrong?" |
13316 | Illius igitur praesentiam huius absentiam desiderabas? |
13316 | Is the One the same as the Other? |
13316 | Is there any then,quoth she,"that think that men can do all things?" |
13316 | Is there anything,quoth she,"that in the course of nature, leaving the desire of being, seeketh to come to destruction and corruption?" |
13316 | It is good then? |
13316 | Ita est,inquam,"Quae uero aut exercet aut corrigit, prodest?" |
13316 | Nonne igitur bonum censes esse quod prodest? |
13316 | Nonne quia uel aberat quod abesse non uelles uel aderat quod adesse noluisses? |
13316 | Nonne,inquit,"beatitudinem bonum esse censemus?" |
13316 | Nostine igitur,inquit,"omne quod est tam diu manere atque subsistere quam diu sit unum, sed interire atque dissolui pariter atque unum destiterit?" |
13316 | Now thinkest thou, that which is of this sort ought to be despised, or rather that it is worthy to be respected above all other things? |
13316 | Now, what sayest thou to that pleasing fortune which is given in reward to the good, doth the common people account it bad? |
13316 | Num igitur deus facere malum potest? |
13316 | Num me,inquit,"fefellit abesse aliquid, per quod, uelut hiante ualli robore, in animum tuum perturbationum morbus inrepserit? |
13316 | Num recordaris beatitudinem ipsum esse bonum eoque modo, cum beatitudo petitur, ab omnibus desiderari bonum? |
13316 | O te alumne hac opinione felicem, si quidem hoc,inquit,"adieceris....""Quidnam?" |
13316 | Omnem,inquit,"improbum num supplicio dignum negas?" |
13316 | Omnes igitur homines boni pariter ac mali indiscreta intentione ad bonum peruenire nituntur? |
13316 | Quae igitur cum discrepant minime bona sunt, cum uero unum esse coeperint, bona fiunt; nonne haec ut bona sint, unitatis fieri adeptione contingit? |
13316 | Quaenam,inquit,"ista est? |
13316 | Quem uero effecisse quod uoluerit uideas, num etiam potuisse dubitabis? |
13316 | Qui igitur supplicio digni sunt miseros esse non dubitas? |
13316 | Qui uero eget aliquo, non est usquequaque sibi ipse sufficiens? |
13316 | Qui? |
13316 | Quid igitur homo sit, poterisne proferre? |
13316 | Quid igitur,inquam,"nihilne est quod uel casus uel fortuitum iure appellari queat? |
13316 | Quid igitur? |
13316 | Quid reliqua, quae cum sit aspera, iusto supplicio malos coercet, num bonam populus putat? |
13316 | Quid uero iucunda, quae in praemium tribuitur bonis, num uulgus malam esse decernit? |
13316 | Quid uero,inquit,"obscurumne hoc atque ignobile censes esse an omni celebritate clarissimum? |
13316 | Quid? |
13316 | Quid? |
13316 | Quid? |
13316 | Quid? |
13316 | Quid? |
13316 | Quidnam? |
13316 | Quidnam? |
13316 | Quidni fateare, cum eam cotidie ualentior aliquis eripiat inuito? 13316 Quidni,"inquam,"meminerim?" |
13316 | Quidni? |
13316 | Quidni? |
13316 | Quidni? |
13316 | Quis i d neget? |
13316 | Quis i d,inquam,"neget?" |
13316 | Quod igitur nullius egeat alieni, quod suis cuncta uiribus possit, quod sit clarum atque reuerendum, nonne hoc etiam constat esse laetissimum? |
13316 | Quod si conetur,ait,"num tandem proficiet quidquam aduersus eum quem iure beatitudinis potentissimum esse concessimus?" |
13316 | Quod uero huiusmodi sit, spernendumne esse censes an contra rerum omnium ueneratione dignissimum? |
13316 | Quonam modo? |
13316 | Quonam,inquam"modo?" |
13316 | Quonam,inquam,"modo?" |
13316 | Quonam,inquam,"modo?" |
13316 | Quonam? |
13316 | Sed dic mihi, quoniam deo mundum regi non ambigis, quibus etiam gubernaculis regatur aduertis? |
13316 | Sed omne quod bonum est boni participatione bonum esse concedis an minime? |
13316 | Sentisne,inquit,"haec atque animo inlabuntur tuo, an[ Greek: onos luras]? |
13316 | Shall we,quoth she,"frame our speech to the vulgar phrase, lest we seem to have as it were forsaken the use of human conversation?" |
13316 | Should I,saith she,"forsake thee, my disciple, and not divide the burden, which thou bearest through hatred of my name, by partaking of thy labour? |
13316 | Si igitur cognitor,ait,"resideres, cui supplicium inferendum putares, eine qui fecisset an qui pertulisset iniuriam?" |
13316 | So that every man needeth some other help to defend his money? |
13316 | So that thou feltest this insufficiency, even the height of thy wealth? |
13316 | The offerer of the injury then would seem to thee more miserable than the receiver? |
13316 | Then thou desiredst the presence of that, and the absence of this? |
13316 | Then you do not doubt that those who deserve punishment are wretched? |
13316 | Those things, then, which, when they differ, are not good and when they are one, become good, are they not made good by obtaining unity? |
13316 | Tu itaque hanc insufficientiam plenus,inquit,"opibus sustinebas?" |
13316 | Understandest thou these things,saith she,"and do they make impression in thy mind? |
13316 | Visne igitur,inquit,"paulisper uulgi sermonibus accedamus, ne nimium uelut ab humanitatis usu recessisse uideamur?" |
13316 | Was it not because thou either wantedst something which thou wouldst have had, or else hadst something which thou wouldst have wanted? |
13316 | Well then, canst thou explicate what man is? |
13316 | What if anything doth endeavour,quoth she,"can anything prevail against Him, whom we have granted to be most powerful by reason of His blessedness?" |
13316 | What is that? |
13316 | What is that? |
13316 | What now,quoth she,"thinkest thou this to be obscure and base, or rather most excellent and famous? |
13316 | What then,quoth I,"is there nothing that can rightly be called chance or fortune? |
13316 | What then? |
13316 | What? |
13316 | What? |
13316 | What? |
13316 | What? |
13316 | What? |
13316 | What? |
13316 | What? |
13316 | Whither? |
13316 | Who can deny that? |
13316 | Who denies that? |
13316 | Why not? |
13316 | Why not? |
13316 | Why not? |
13316 | Why should I not remember it? |
13316 | Why shouldst thou not grant it, since that every day those which are more potent take it from others perforce? 13316 Why?" |
13316 | Wilt thou deny,quoth she,"that the motion of walking is agreeable to the nature of men?" |
13316 | ''For what cause, O man, chargest thou me with daily complaints? |
13316 | ''Quid tu homo ream me cotidianis agis querelis? |
13316 | 10 Quid tantum miseri saeuos tyrannos Mirantur sine uiribus furentes? |
13316 | 10 Sed cur tanto flagrat amore Veri tectas reperire notas? |
13316 | 10 Vis aptam meritis uicem referre? |
13316 | 15 Quis enim quidquam nescius optet Aut quis ualeat nescita sequi? |
13316 | 20 Quid me felicem totiens iactastis amici? |
13316 | 5 An nulla est discordia ueris Semperque sibi certa cohaerent? |
13316 | Agnoscisne me? |
13316 | Am I deceived in this? |
13316 | An claritudo nihili pendenda est? |
13316 | An cum mentem cerneret altam, 20 Pariter summam et singula norat? |
13316 | An distant quia dissidentque mores, Iniustas acies et fera bella mouent Alternisque uolunt perire telis? |
13316 | An ego sola meum ius exercere prohibebor? |
13316 | An est aliquid, tametsi uulgus lateat, cui uocabula ista conueniant?" |
13316 | An gemmarum fulgor oculos trahit? |
13316 | An ignoras illam tuae ciuitatis antiquissimam legem, qua sanctum est ei ius exulare non esse quisquis in ea sedem fundare maluerit? |
13316 | An illos accusatores iustos fecit praemissa damnatio? |
13316 | An in bonis non est numeranda potentia? |
13316 | An optasse illius ordinis salutem nefas uocabo? |
13316 | An praesidio sunt amici quos non uirtus sed fortuna conciliat? |
13316 | An quia inrationabiles substantiae non possunt habere personam qua[64] Christi uocabulum excipere possint[65]? |
13316 | An scientes uolentesque bonum deserunt, ad uitia deflectunt? |
13316 | An sectanda nouerunt? |
13316 | An tu aliter existimas?" |
13316 | An tu arbitraris quod nihilo indigeat egere potentia?" |
13316 | An tu in hanc uitae scaenam nunc primum subitus hospesque uenisti? |
13316 | An tu mores ignorabas meos? |
13316 | An tu potentem censes quem uideas uelle quod non possit efficere? |
13316 | An ubi Romani nominis transire fama nequit, Romani hominis gloria progredietur? |
13316 | An uel si amiserit, neglegendum putat? |
13316 | An uernis floribus ipse distingueris aut tua in aestiuos fructus intumescit ubertas? |
13316 | An uero te longus ordo famulorum facit esse felicem? |
13316 | An uero tu pretiosam aestimas abituram felicitatem? |
13316 | An uos agrorum pulchritudo delectat? |
13316 | An ut tu quoque mecum rea falsis criminationibus agiteris? |
13316 | And after what manner do riches expel penury? |
13316 | And except they be all one and the same thing, that they have nothing worth the desiring?" |
13316 | And how far doth this error of yours extend, who think that any can be adorned with the ornaments of another? |
13316 | And if there be no God, from whence cometh any good?'' |
13316 | And if there is nothing in these worthy to be desired, why art thou either glad when thou hast them or sorry when thou losest them? |
13316 | And if they light upon wicked men, what Aetnas, belching flames, or what deluge can cause so great harms? |
13316 | And if this strength of kingdoms be the author of blessedness, doth it not diminish happiness and bring misery, when it is in any way defective? |
13316 | And is the present fortune dear unto thee, of whose stay thou art not sure, and whose departure will breed thy grief? |
13316 | And shall the insatiable desire of men tie me to constancy, so contrary to my custom? |
13316 | And then she said:"Thinkest thou that this world is governed by haphazard and chance? |
13316 | And what if they were destitute of this so great and almost invincible help of the direction of nature? |
13316 | And what plague is able to hurt us more than a familiar enemy? |
13316 | And when, we answer, will this not be so? |
13316 | And who either conserveth goodness or expelleth evils, but God the Ruler and Governor of men''s minds? |
13316 | Are riches precious in virtue either of their own nature or of yours? |
13316 | Are these the rewards which thy obedient servants have? |
13316 | Are they not thirsty? |
13316 | Are we the better for those friends which love us not for our virtue but for our prosperity? |
13316 | Art thou come to bear me company in being falsely accused?" |
13316 | Art thou thyself adorned with May flowers? |
13316 | Art thou''like the ass, deaf to the lyre''? |
13316 | At cuius praemii? |
13316 | At si ad hominum iudicia reuertar, quis ille est cui haec non credenda modo sed saltem audienda uideantur?" |
13316 | At si nescit, quid caeca petit? |
13316 | At si noua ueraque non ex homine sumpta caro formata est, quo tanta tragoedia generationis? |
13316 | At si quando, quod perrarum est, probis deferantur, quid in eis aliud quam probitas utentium placet? |
13316 | At si quem sapientia praeditum uideres, num posses eum uel reuerentia uel ea qua est praeditus sapientia non dignum putare? |
13316 | Auaritia feruet alienarum opum uiolentus ereptor? |
13316 | Aut quid habeat amplum magnificumque gloria tam angustis exiguisque limitibus artata? |
13316 | Aut quid hoc refert uaticinio illo ridiculo Tiresiae? |
13316 | Because their famous names in books we read, Come we by them to know the dead? |
13316 | Because this soul the highest mind did view, Must we needs say that it all nature knew? |
13316 | Bona uero unde, si non est?'' |
13316 | But I pray thee, leavest thou no punishments for the souls after the death of the body?" |
13316 | But I would have thee answer me to this also; dost thou remember that thou art a man?" |
13316 | But are men so completely wise that whomsoever they judge wicked or honest must needs be so? |
13316 | But by whose accusations did I receive this blow? |
13316 | But did I deserve the same of the Senators themselves? |
13316 | But do they always last among them where they had their beginning? |
13316 | But how is it possible those things should not happen which are foreseen to be to come? |
13316 | But if I return to the judgments of men, who is there that will think them worthy to be believed or so much as heard?" |
13316 | But if flesh had been formed new and real and not taken from man, to what purpose was the tremendous tragedy of the conception? |
13316 | But if thou seest any man endued with wisdom, canst thou esteem him unworthy of that respect or wisdom which he hath? |
13316 | But in this rank of coherent causes, have we any free- will, or doth the fatal chain fasten also the motions of men''s minds?" |
13316 | But in what Scriptures is the name of Christ ever made double? |
13316 | But now have you laid hold of him who hath been brought up in Eleatical and Academical studies? |
13316 | But now, if we follow Nestorius, what happens that is new? |
13316 | But tell me, dost thou remember what is the end of things? |
13316 | But thou wilt say,''If it is in my power to change my purpose, shall I frustrate providence if I chance to alter those things which she foreknoweth?'' |
13316 | But what crime was laid to my charge? |
13316 | But what great or heroical matter can that glory have, which is pent up in so small and narrow bounds? |
13316 | But what if thou hast tasted more abundantly of the good? |
13316 | But what is more devoid of strength than blind ignorance? |
13316 | But what is this excellent power which you esteemed so desirable? |
13316 | But what reward hath he? |
13316 | But who would not despise and neglect the service of so vile and frail a thing as his body? |
13316 | But why should he call God Himself by the name of Christ? |
13316 | But wilt thou have our arguments contend together? |
13316 | By ignorance of that which is good? |
13316 | Can they therefore behold, as is wo nt to be said of bodies, that inward complexion of souls? |
13316 | Canst thou ever imperiously impose anything upon a free mind? |
13316 | Canst thou remove a soul settled in firm reason from the quiet state which it possesseth? |
13316 | Celsa num tandem ualuit potestas Vertere praui rabiem Neronis? |
13316 | Comest thou now first as a pilgrim and stranger into the theatre of this life? |
13316 | Consider you not, O earthly wights, whom you seem to excel? |
13316 | Could Nestorius, I ask, dare to call the one man and the one God in Christ two Christs? |
13316 | Could so many dangers ever make thee think to bear office with Decoratus,[124] having discovered him to be a very varlet and spy? |
13316 | Could this glorious might Restrain the furious rage of wicked Nero''s spite? |
13316 | Cur enim flammas quidem sursum leuitas uehit, terras uero deorsum pondus deprimit, nisi quod haec singulis loca motionesque conueniunt? |
13316 | Cur enim omnino duos audeat Christos uocare, unum hominem alium deum? |
13316 | Cur enim relicta uirtute uitia sectantur? |
13316 | Cur inertes Terga nudatis? |
13316 | Cur ita prouenit? |
13316 | Cur uero non elementa quoque ipsa simili audeat appellare uocabulo per quae deus mira quaedam cotidianis motibus operatur? |
13316 | Darest thou boast of the beauty which any of them have? |
13316 | Deo uero atque homini quid non erit diuersa ratione disiunctum, si sub diuersitate naturae personarum quoque credatur mansisse discretio? |
13316 | Deum uero ipsum Christi appellatione cur uocet? |
13316 | Did my dealing deserve it? |
13316 | Didst thou not know my fashion? |
13316 | Didst thou not learn in thy youth that there lay two barrels, the one of good things and the other of bad,[105] at Jupiter''s threshold? |
13316 | Dignitatibus fulgere uelis? |
13316 | Diuitiaene uel uestra uel sui natura pretiosae sunt? |
13316 | Do any of these belong to thee? |
13316 | Does this square with catholic doctrine? |
13316 | Dost thou esteem it a small benefit that this rough and harsh Fortune hath made known unto thee the minds of thy faithful friends? |
13316 | Dost thou esteem that happiness precious which thou art to lose? |
13316 | Dost thou not know me? |
13316 | Doth not the very countenance of this place move thee? |
13316 | Doth the glittering of jewels draw thy eyes after them? |
13316 | Doth the light and unconstant change his courses? |
13316 | Doth the outrageous fret and fume? |
13316 | Doth the pleasant prospect of the fields delight you? |
13316 | Doth the treacherous fellow rejoice that he hath deceived others with his hidden frauds? |
13316 | Ea etiam quae inanimata esse creduntur nonne quod suum est quaeque simili ratione desiderant? |
13316 | Endeavourest thou to stay the force of the turning wheel? |
13316 | Estne aliquid tibi te ipso pretiosius? |
13316 | Et illa:"Bonos,"inquit,"esse felices, malos uero miseros nonne concessimus?" |
13316 | Et illa:"Nihilne aliud te esse nouisti?" |
13316 | Et quid si hoc tam magno ac paene inuicto praeeuntis naturae desererentur auxilio? |
13316 | Ex meane dispositione scientia diuina mutabitur, ut cum ego nunc hoc nunc aliud uelim, illa quoque noscendi uices alternare uideatur? |
13316 | Fatebimur? |
13316 | Ferox atque inquies linguam litigiis exercet? |
13316 | First then, I ask thee thyself, who not long since didst abound with wealth; in that plenty of riches, was thy mind never troubled with any injuries?" |
13316 | Foedis inmundisque libidinibus immergitur? |
13316 | For are not rich men hungry? |
13316 | For being askt how can we answer true Unless that grace within our hearts did dwell? |
13316 | For can you be bigger than elephants, or stronger than bulls? |
13316 | For dost thou think that this is the first time that Wisdom hath been exposed to danger by wicked men? |
13316 | For doth thy sight impose any necessity upon those things which thou seest present?" |
13316 | For from whence proceed so many complaints in law, but that money gotten either by violence or deceit is sought to be recovered by that means?" |
13316 | For seem they to err who endeavour to want nothing? |
13316 | For what is there wanting life and members that may justly seem beautiful to a nature not only endued with life but also with reason? |
13316 | For what liberty remaineth there to be hoped for? |
13316 | For what place can confusion have, since God disposeth all things in due order? |
13316 | For what should I speak of kings''followers, since I show that kingdoms themselves are so full of weakness? |
13316 | For what? |
13316 | For who but a very fool would hate the good? |
13316 | For who hath so entire happiness that he is not in some part offended with the condition of his estate? |
13316 | For why do they follow vices, forsaking virtues? |
13316 | For why doth levity lift up flames, or heaviness weigh down the earth, but because these places and motions are convenient for them? |
13316 | For why should I speak of those feigned letters, in which I am charged to have hoped for Roman liberty? |
13316 | For why should slippery chance Rule all things with such doubtful governance? |
13316 | For, since nothing can be imagined better than God, who doubteth but that is good than which is nothing better? |
13316 | Gloriam petas? |
13316 | Haecine est bibliotheca, quam certissimam tibi sedem nostris in laribus ipsa delegeras? |
13316 | Haecine omnia bonum-- sufficientia potentia ceteraque-- ueluti quaedam beatitudinis membra sunt an ad bonum ueluti ad uerticem cuncta referuntur?" |
13316 | Haecine praemia referimus tibi obsequentes? |
13316 | Hast thou forgotten how many ways, and in what degree thou art happy? |
13316 | Have I now made clear the difference between the categories? |
13316 | Have offices that force to plant virtues and expel vices in the minds of those who have them? |
13316 | Have we not in ancient times before our Plato''s age had oftentimes great conflicts with the rashness of folly? |
13316 | Have we not placed sufficiency in happiness, and granted that God is blessedness itself?" |
13316 | Have you no proper and inward good, that you seek your goods in those things which are outward and separated from you? |
13316 | Heu primus quis fuit ille Auri qui pondera tecti Gemmasque latere uolentes Pretiosa pericula fodit? |
13316 | Hisne accedamus quos beluis similes esse monstrauimus? |
13316 | Hoc uero qui fieri potest, si diuinitas in generatione Christi et humanam animam suscepit et corpus? |
13316 | How cometh this to pass? |
13316 | How doth God foreknow that these uncertain things shall be? |
13316 | How many are there, thinkest thou, which would think themselves almost in Heaven if they had but the least part of the remains of thy fortune? |
13316 | How often have I encountered with Conigastus, violently possessing himself with poor men''s goods? |
13316 | How often have I put back Triguilla, Provost of the King''s house, from injuries which he had begun, yea, and finished also? |
13316 | How shall she find them out? |
13316 | How should I curse these fools? |
13316 | Hunc uero Eleaticis atque Academicis studiis innutritum? |
13316 | Iam uero quam sit inane quam futtile nobilitatis nomen, quis non uideat? |
13316 | Iamne igitur uides quid haec omnia quae diximus consequatur?" |
13316 | Iamne patet quae sit differentia praedicationum? |
13316 | If heretofore one had care of the people''s provision, he was accounted a great man; now what is more abject than that office? |
13316 | If it was the manhood of that man from whom all men descend, what manhood did divinity invest? |
13316 | If not, what estate can be blessed by ignorant blindness? |
13316 | If she knows not, why strives she with blind pain? |
13316 | If she knows that which she doth so require, Why wisheth she known things to know again? |
13316 | In hoc igitur minimo puncti quodam puncto circumsaepti atque conclusi de peruulganda fama, de proferendo nomine cogitatis? |
13316 | In qua mecum saepe residens de humanarum diuinarumque rerum scientia disserebas? |
13316 | Infitiabimur crimen, ne tibi pudor simus? |
13316 | Inscitiane bonorum? |
13316 | Insidiator occultus subripuisse fraudibus gaudet? |
13316 | Inter eos uero apud quos ortae sunt, num perpetuo perdurant? |
13316 | Irae intemperans fremit? |
13316 | Is he drowned in filthy and unclean lusts? |
13316 | Is it because irrational substances can not possess a Person enabling them to receive the name of Christ? |
13316 | Is it shamefastness or insensibleness that makes thee silent? |
13316 | Is not the operation of God seen plainly in men of holy life and notable piety? |
13316 | Is the angry and unquiet man always contending and brawling? |
13316 | Is the fearful and timorous afraid without cause? |
13316 | Is the slow and stupid always idle? |
13316 | Is the violent extorter of other men''s goods carried away with his covetous desire? |
13316 | Is there anything more precious to thee than thyself? |
13316 | Itane autem nullum est proprium uobis atque insitum bonum ut in externis ac sepositis rebus bona uestra quaeratis? |
13316 | Itane nihil fortunam puduit si minus accusatae innocentiae, at accusantium uilitatis? |
13316 | Leuis atque inconstans studia permutat? |
13316 | Likewise, who seeth not what a vain and idle thing it is to be called noble? |
13316 | May I seem to have provoked enmity enough against myself? |
13316 | Modum desideras? |
13316 | Must I only be forbidden to use my right? |
13316 | My friends, why did you count me fortunate? |
13316 | Nam bonos quis nisi stultissimus oderit? |
13316 | Nam cum nihil deo melius excogitari queat, i d quo melius nihil est bonum esse quis dubitet? |
13316 | Nam cur rogati sponte recta censetis, Ni mersus alto uiueret fomes corde? |
13316 | Nam cur tantas lubrica uersat Fortuna uices? |
13316 | Nam de compositis falso litteris quibus libertatem arguor sperasse Romanam quid attinet dicere? |
13316 | Nam quae sperari reliqua libertas potest? |
13316 | Nam quid ego de regum familiaribus disseram, cum regna ipsa tantae inbecillitatis plena demonstrem? |
13316 | Nesciebas Croesum regem Lydorum Cyro paulo ante formidabilem mox deinde miserandum rogi flammis traditum misso caelitus imbre defensum? |
13316 | Nihilne te ipsa loci facies mouet? |
13316 | Nonne adulescentulus[ Greek: doious pithous ton men hena kakon ton d''heteron eaon] in Iouis limine iacere didicisti? |
13316 | Nonne in beatitudine sufficientiam numerauimus deumque beatitudinem ipsam esse consensimus?" |
13316 | Nonne in sanctis hominibus ac pietate conspicuis apertus diuinitatis actus agnoscitur? |
13316 | Nonne, o terrena animalia, consideratis quibus qui praesidere uideamini? |
13316 | Nos ad constantiam nostris moribus alienam inexpleta hominum cupiditas alligabit? |
13316 | Nostraene artes ita meruerunt? |
13316 | Now doth necessity compel any of these things to be done in this sort?" |
13316 | Now what should I speak of bodily pleasures, the desire of which is full of anxiety, and the enjoying of them breeds repentance? |
13316 | Now, how can any man exercise jurisdiction upon anybody except upon their bodies, and that which is inferior to their bodies, I mean their fortunes? |
13316 | Now, what desire you with such loud praise of fortune? |
13316 | Now, what is the health of souls but virtue? |
13316 | Now, what is there that any can enforce upon another which he may not himself be enforced to sustain by another? |
13316 | Now, why should I discourse of dignities and power which you, not knowing what true dignity and power meaneth, exalt to the skies? |
13316 | Num audes alicuius talium splendore gloriari? |
13316 | Num enim diuites esurire nequeunt? |
13316 | Num enim elephantos mole, tauros robore superare poteritis, num tigres uelocitate praeibitis? |
13316 | Num enim quae praesentia cernis, aliquam eis necessitatem tuus addit intuitus?" |
13316 | Num enim tu aliunde argumentum futurorum necessitatis trahis, nisi quod ea quae praesciuntur non euenire non possunt? |
13316 | Num enim uidentur errare hi qui nihilo indigere nituntur? |
13316 | Num frigus hibernum pecuniosorum membra non sentiunt? |
13316 | Num i d mentior? |
13316 | Num igitur ea mentis integritate homines degunt, ut quos probos improbosue censuerunt eos quoque uti existimant esse necesse sit? |
13316 | Num igitur quantum ad hoc attinet, quae ex arbitrio eueniunt ad necessitatem cogantur?" |
13316 | Num igitur quidquam illorum ita fieri necessitas ulla compellit?" |
13316 | Num imbecillum ac sine uiribus aestimandum est, quod omnibus rebus constat esse praestantius? |
13316 | Num ita quasi cum duo corpora sibimet apponuntur, ut tantum locis iuncta sint et nihil in alterum ex alterius qualitate perueniat? |
13316 | Num mentem firma sibi ratione cohaerentem de statu propriae quietis amouebis? |
13316 | Num quidquam libero imperabis animo? |
13316 | Num sitire non possunt? |
13316 | Num te horum aliquid attingit? |
13316 | Num te praeterit Paulum Persi regis a se capti calamitatibus pias inpendisse lacrimas? |
13316 | Num uero labuntur hi qui quod sit optimum, i d etiam reuerentiae cultu dignissimum putent? |
13316 | Num uis ea est magistratibus ut utentium mentibus uirtutes inserant uitia depellant? |
13316 | Nunc enim primum censes apud inprobos mores lacessitam periculis esse sapientiam? |
13316 | Or by what skill are several things espied? |
13316 | Or did the condemnation, which went before, make them just accusers? |
13316 | Or do they err who take that which is best to be likewise most worthy of respect? |
13316 | Or do they know what they should embrace, but passion driveth them headlong the contrary way? |
13316 | Or do they wittingly and willingly forsake goodness, and decline to vices? |
13316 | Or doth much money make the owners senseless of cold in winter? |
13316 | Or doth the multitude of servants make thee happy? |
13316 | Or doth thy fertility teem with the fruits of summer? |
13316 | Or having so, How shall she then their forms and natures know? |
13316 | Or in true things can we no discord see, Because all certainties do still agree? |
13316 | Or in what is this better than that ridiculous prophecy of Tiresias"Whatsoever I say shall either be or not be"[172]? |
13316 | Or is fame to be contemned? |
13316 | Or is not power to be esteemed good? |
13316 | Or is there something, though unknown to the common sort, to which these names agree?" |
13316 | Or rather dost thou believe that it is ruled by reason?" |
13316 | Or swifter than tigers? |
13316 | Or though he should lose it, doth he think that a thing of no moment? |
13316 | Or to what the whole intention of nature tendeth?" |
13316 | Or what is it to thee, if they be precious by nature? |
13316 | Or what new thing has been wrought by the coming of the Saviour? |
13316 | Or why should punishments, Due to the guilty, light on innocents? |
13316 | Or will such ignorant pursuit maintain? |
13316 | Ought, then, by parity of reason, all things to be just because He is just who willed them to be? |
13316 | Pauidus ac fugax non metuenda formidat? |
13316 | Pecuniamne congregare conaberis? |
13316 | Perceivest thou now what followeth of all that we have hitherto said?" |
13316 | Plures enim magnum saepe nomen falsis uulgi opinionibus abstulerunt; quo quid turpius excogitari potest? |
13316 | Postremo cum omne praemium idcirco appetatur quoniam bonum esse creditur, quis boni compotem praemii iudicet expertem? |
13316 | Potentem censes qui satellite latus ambit, qui quos terret ipse plus metuit, qui ut potens esse uideatur, in seruientium manu situm est? |
13316 | Potentiamne desideras? |
13316 | Primum igitur paterisne me pauculis rogationibus statum tuae mentis attingere atque temptare, ut qui modus sit tuae curationis intellegam?" |
13316 | Pudore an stupore siluisti? |
13316 | Quae diuisa recolligit 20 Alternumque legens iter Nunc summis caput inserit, Nunc decedit in infima, Tum sese referens sibi Veris falsa redarguit? |
13316 | Quae est igitur facta hominis deique coniunctio? |
13316 | Quae est igitur haec potestas quae sollicitudinum morsus expellere, quae formidinum aculeos uitare nequit? |
13316 | Quae est igitur ista potentia quam pertimescunt habentes, quam nec cum habere uelis tutus sis et cum deponere cupias uitare non possis? |
13316 | Quae iam praecipitem frena cupidinem 15 Certo fine retentent, Largis cum potius muneribus fluens Sitis ardescit habendi? |
13316 | Quae omnia non modo ad tempus manendi uerum generatim quoque quasi in perpetuum permanendi ueluti quasdam machinas esse quis nesciat? |
13316 | Quae si in improbissimum quemque ceciderunt, quae flammis Aetnae eructuantibus, quod diluuium tantas strages dederint? |
13316 | Quae si recepta futurorum necessitate nihil uirium habere credantur, quid erit quo summo illi rerum principi conecti atque adhaerere possimus? |
13316 | Quae tua tibi detraximus bona? |
13316 | Quae uero est ista uestra expetibilis ac praeclara potentia? |
13316 | Quae uero pestis efficacior ad nocendum quam familiaris inimicus? |
13316 | Quae uero, inquies, potest ulla iniquior esse confusio, quam ut bonis tum aduersa tum prospera, malis etiam tum optata tum odiosa contingant? |
13316 | Quae uis singula perspicit Aut quae cognita diuidit? |
13316 | Quaenam discors foedera rerum Causa resoluit? |
13316 | Quam multos esse coniectas qui sese caelo proximos arbitrentur, si de fortunae tuae reliquiis pars eis minima contingat? |
13316 | Quam tibi fecimus iniuriam? |
13316 | Quam uero late patet uester hic error qui ornari posse aliquid ornamentis existimatis alienis? |
13316 | Quamquam quid ipsa scripta proficiant, quae cum suis auctoribus premit longior atque obscura uetustas? |
13316 | Quando enim non fuit diuinitatis propria humanitatisque persona? |
13316 | Quando uero non erit? |
13316 | Quare si opes nec submouere possunt indigentiam et ipsae suam faciunt, quid est quod eas sufficientiam praestare credatis? |
13316 | Quare si quid ita futurum est ut eius certus ac necessarius non sit euentus, i d euenturum esse praesciri qui poterit? |
13316 | Quibus autem deferentibus perculsi sumus? |
13316 | Quibus autem umquam scripturis nomen Christi geminatur? |
13316 | Quibus si nihil inest appetendae pulchritudinis, quid est quod uel amissis doleas uel laeteris retentis? |
13316 | Quid aegritudo quam uitia? |
13316 | Quid autem de corporis uoluptatibus loquar, quarum appetentia quidem plena est anxietatis; satietas uero poenitentiae? |
13316 | Quid autem de dignitatibus potentiaque disseram quae uos uerae dignitatis ac potestatis inscii caelo exaequatis? |
13316 | Quid autem est quod in alium facere quisquam[111] possit, quod sustinere ab alio ipse non possit? |
13316 | Quid autem tanto fortunae strepitu desideratis? |
13316 | Quid dicam liberos consulares quorum iam, ut in i d aetatis pueris, uel paterni uel auiti specimen elucet ingenii? |
13316 | Quid dignum stolidis mentibus inprecer? |
13316 | Quid earum potius, aurumne an uis congesta pecuniae? |
13316 | Quid enim furor hosticus ulla Vellet prior arma mouere, 20 Cum uulnera saeua uiderent Nec praemia sanguinis ulla? |
13316 | Quid enim uel speret quisque uel etiam deprecetur, quando optanda omnia series indeflexa conectit? |
13316 | Quid enim? |
13316 | Quid est enim carens animae motu atque compage quod animatae rationabilique naturae pulchrum esse iure uideatur? |
13316 | Quid est igitur o homo quod te in maestitiam luctumque deiecit? |
13316 | Quid etiam diuina prouidentia humana opinione praestiterit; si uti homines incerta iudicat quorum est incertus euentus? |
13316 | Quid externa bona pro tuis amplexaris? |
13316 | Quid fles, quid lacrimis manas? |
13316 | Quid genus et proauos strepitis? |
13316 | Quid huic seueritati posse astrui uidetur? |
13316 | Quid igitur ingemiscis? |
13316 | Quid igitur inquies? |
13316 | Quid igitur o magistra censes? |
13316 | Quid igitur o mortales extra petitis intra uos positam felicitatem? |
13316 | Quid igitur postulas ut necessaria fiant quae diuino lumine lustrentur, cum ne homines quidem necessaria faciant esse quae uideant? |
13316 | Quid igitur referre putas, tune illam moriendo deseras an te illa fugiendo? |
13316 | Quid igitur refert non esse necessaria, cum propter diuinae scientiae condicionem modis omnibus necessitatis instar eueniet? |
13316 | Quid igitur, si ratiocinationi sensus imaginatioque refragentur, nihil esse illud uniuersale dicentes quod sese intueri ratio putet? |
13316 | Quid igitur? |
13316 | Quid igitur? |
13316 | Quid igitur? |
13316 | Quid igitur? |
13316 | Quid igitur? |
13316 | Quid inanibus gaudiis raperis? |
13316 | Quid o superbi colla mortali iugo Frustra leuare gestiunt? |
13316 | Quid quod omnes uelut in terras ore demerso trahunt alimenta radicibus ac per medullas robur corticemque diffundunt? |
13316 | Quid si a te non tota discessi? |
13316 | Quid si haec ipsa mei mutabilitas iusta tibi causa est sperandi meliora? |
13316 | Quid si uberius de bonorum parte sumpsisti? |
13316 | Quid taces? |
13316 | Quid tragoediarum clamor aliud deflet nisi indiscreto ictu fortunam felicia regna uertentem? |
13316 | Quid uero aliud animorum salus uidetur esse quam probitas? |
13316 | Quid uero noui per aduentum saluatoris effectum est? |
13316 | Quidni, cum a semet ipsis discerpentibus conscientiam uitiis quisque dissentiat faciantque saepe, quae cum gesserint non fuisse gerenda decernant? |
13316 | Quidni, quando eorum felicitas perpetuo perdurat? |
13316 | Quidni? |
13316 | Quis autem alius uel seruator bonorum uel malorum depulsor quam rector ac medicator mentium deus? |
13316 | Quis autem modus est quo pellatur diuitiis indigentia? |
13316 | Quis enim coercente in ordinem cuncta deo locus esse ullus temeritati reliquus potest? |
13316 | Quis est enim tam conpositae felicitatis ut non aliqua ex parte cum status sui qualitate rixetur? |
13316 | Quis est ille tam felix qui cum dederit inpatientiae manus, statum suum mutare non optet? |
13316 | Quis illos igitur putet beatos Quos miseri tribuunt honores? |
13316 | Quis legem det amantibus? |
13316 | Quis non te felicissimum cum tanto splendore socerorum, cum coniugis pudore, cum masculae quoque prolis opportunitate praedicauit? |
13316 | Quis tanta deus Veris statuit bella duobus, Vt quae carptim singula constent Eadem nolint mixta iugari? |
13316 | Quo uero quisquam ius aliquod in quempiam nisi in solum corpus et quod infra corpus est, fortunam loquor, possit exserere? |
13316 | Quod si aeternitatis infinita spatia pertractes, quid habes quod de nominis tui diuturnitate laeteris? |
13316 | Quod si haec regnorum potestas beatitudinis auctor est, nonne si qua parte defuerit, felicitatem minuat, miseriam inportet? |
13316 | Quod si natura pulchra sunt, quid i d tua refert? |
13316 | Quod si natura quidem inest, sed est ratione diuersum, cum de rerum principe loquamur deo, fingat qui potest: quis haec diuersa coniunxerit? |
13316 | Quod si nec ex arbitrio retineri potest et calamitosos fugiens facit, quid est aliud fugax quam futurae quoddam calamitatis indicium? |
13316 | Quod si neque i d ualent efficere quod promittunt bonisque pluribus carent, nonne liquido falsa in eis beatitudinis species deprehenditur? |
13316 | Quod tantos iuuat excitare motus Et propria fatum sollicitare manu? |
13316 | Quonam modo deus haec incerta futura praenoscit? |
13316 | Quoue inueniat, quisque[173] repertam Queat ignarus noscere formam? |
13316 | Requirentibus enim:"Ipse est pater qui filius?" |
13316 | Rursus:"Idem alter qui alter?" |
13316 | Satisne in me magnas uideor exaceruasse discordias? |
13316 | Scitne quod appetit anxia nosse? |
13316 | Secundum Nestorii uero sententiam quid contingit noui? |
13316 | Secundum hanc igitur rationem cuncta oportet esse iusta, quoniam ipse iustus est qui ea esse uoluit? |
13316 | Sed dic mihi, meministine, quis sit rerum finis, quoue totius naturae tendat intentio?" |
13316 | Sed hoc quoque respondeas uelim, hominemne te esse meministi?" |
13316 | Sed in hac haerentium sibi serie causarum estne ulla nostri arbitrii libertas an ipsos quoque humanorum motus animorum fatalis catena constringit?" |
13316 | Sed num idem de patribus quoque merebamur? |
13316 | Sed num in his eam reperiet, quae demonstrauimus i d quod pollicentur non posse conferre?" |
13316 | Sed quaeso,"inquam,"te, nullane animarum supplicia post defunctum morte corpus relinquis?" |
13316 | Sed quemadmodum bona sint, inquirendum est, utrumne participatione an substantia? |
13316 | Sed qui fieri potest ut ea non proueniant quae futura esse prouidentur? |
13316 | Sed quid eneruatius ignorantiae caecitate? |
13316 | Sed quis non spernat atque abiciat uilissimae fragilissimaeque rei corporis seruum? |
13316 | Sed quis nota scire laborat? |
13316 | Sed quod decora nouimus uocabula, Num scire consumptos datur? |
13316 | Sed uisne rationes ipsas inuicem collidamus? |
13316 | Seekest thou for glory? |
13316 | Seest thou now how all these in knowing do rather use their own force and faculty than the force of those things which are known? |
13316 | Seest thou then in what mire wickedness wallows, and how clearly honesty shineth? |
13316 | Seest thou therefore how strait and narrow that glory is which you labour to enlarge and increase? |
13316 | Segnis ac stupidus torpit? |
13316 | Shall I call it an offence to have wished the safety of that order? |
13316 | Shall I confess it? |
13316 | Shall I deny this charge, that I may not shame thee? |
13316 | Shall we join ourselves to them whom we have proved to be like beasts? |
13316 | Should I fear any accusations, as though this were any new matter? |
13316 | Si eo de cuius semine ductus est homo, quem uestita diuinitas est? |
13316 | Si nescit, quaenam beata sors esse potest ignorantiae caecitate? |
13316 | Si non confitetur ex ea traxisse, dicat quo homine indutus aduenerit, utrumne eo qui deciderat praeuaricatione peccati an alio? |
13316 | Sic rerum uersa condicio est ut diuinum merito rationis animal non aliter sibi splendere nisi inanimatae supellectilis possessione uideatur? |
13316 | Supposest thou to find any constancy in human affairs, since that man himself is soon gone? |
13316 | Tell me, since thou doubtest not that the world is governed by God, canst thou tell me also by what means it is governed?" |
13316 | Than which what can be imagined more vile? |
13316 | That things which severally well settled be Yet joined in one will never friendly prove? |
13316 | The gold or the heaps of money? |
13316 | Thinkest thou him mighty whom thou seest desire that which he can not do? |
13316 | Thinkest thou otherwise?" |
13316 | Thinkest thou that which needeth nothing, to stand in need of power?" |
13316 | Those things also which are thought to be without all life, doth not every one in like manner desire that which appertaineth to their own good? |
13316 | Thou to that certain end Governest all things; deniest Thou to intend The acts of men alone, Directing them in measure from Thy throne? |
13316 | Though what do writings themselves avail which perish, as well as their authors, by continuance and obscurity of time? |
13316 | To which she replied:"Dost thou not know thyself to be anything else?" |
13316 | Tu uero uoluentis rotae impetum retinere conaris? |
13316 | Tum ego collecto in uires animo:"Anne adhuc eget admonitione nec per se satis eminet fortunae in nos saeuientis asperitas? |
13316 | Tum illa,"Quanti,"inquit,"aestimabis, si bonum ipsum quid sit agnoueris?" |
13316 | Tum illa:"Huncine,"inquit,"mundum temerariis agi fortuitisque casibus putas, an ullum credis ei regimen inesse rationis?" |
13316 | V. An uero regna regumque familiaritas efficere potentem ualet? |
13316 | V. But can kingdoms and the familiarity of kings make a man mighty? |
13316 | Vbi ambitus passionis? |
13316 | Vbi nunc fidelis ossa Fabricii manent, 15 Quid Brutus aut rigidus Cato? |
13316 | Vel quid amplius in Iesu generatione contingit quam in cuiuslibet alterius, si discretis utrisque personis discretae etiam fuere naturae? |
13316 | Verumtamen ne te existimari miserum uelis, an numerum modumque tuae felicitatis oblitus es? |
13316 | Videsne igitur quam sit angusta, quam compressa gloria quam dilatare ac propagare laboratis? |
13316 | Videsne igitur quanto in caeno probra uoluantur, qua probitas luce resplendeat? |
13316 | Videsne igitur ut in cognoscendo cuncta sua potius facultate quam eorum quae cognoscuntur utantur? |
13316 | Videsne quantum malis dedecus adiciant dignitates? |
13316 | Visne igitur cum fortuna calculum ponere? |
13316 | Vllamne humanis rebus inesse constantiam reris, cum ipsum saepe hominem uelox hora dissoluat? |
13316 | Vllamne igitur eius hominis potentiam putas, qui quod ipse in alio potest, ne i d in se alter ualeat efficere non possit? |
13316 | Vnde enim forenses querimoniae nisi quod uel ui uel fraude nolentibus pecuniae repetuntur ereptae?" |
13316 | Vnde haud iniuria tuorum quidam familiarium quaesiuit:''Si quidem deus,''inquit,''est, unde mala? |
13316 | Voluptariam uitam degas? |
13316 | Was not fortune ashamed, if not that innocency was accused, yet at least that it had so vile and base accusers? |
13316 | Well, when had not divinity and humanity each its proper Person? |
13316 | What God between two truths such wars doth move? |
13316 | What bridle can contain in bounds this their contentless will, When filled with riches they retain the thirst of having more? |
13316 | What cause of discord breaks the bands of love? |
13316 | What could be added to this severity? |
13316 | What goods of thine have I taken from thee? |
13316 | What if I be not wholly gone from thee? |
13316 | What if this mutability of mine be a just cause for thee to hope for better? |
13316 | What injury have I done thee? |
13316 | What kind of union, then, between God and man has been effected? |
13316 | What might be the reason of this? |
13316 | What part of them can be so esteemed of? |
13316 | What sickness have they but vices? |
13316 | What then, if sense and imagination repugn to discourse and reason, affirming that universality to be nothing which reason thinketh herself to see? |
13316 | What then? |
13316 | What then? |
13316 | What then? |
13316 | What thinkest thou, O Mistress? |
13316 | What? |
13316 | When they ask"Is the Father the same as the Son?" |
13316 | Whence not without cause one of thy familiar friends[95] demanded:''If,''saith he,''there be a God, from whence proceed so many evils? |
13316 | Where the fame of the Roman name could not pass, can the glory of a Roman man penetrate? |
13316 | Where the value of His long Passion? |
13316 | Whereas, if thou weighest attentively the infinite spaces of eternity, what cause hast thou to rejoice at the prolonging of thy name? |
13316 | Wherefore if riches can neither remove wants, and cause some themselves, why imagine you that they can cause sufficiency? |
13316 | Wherefore lamentest thou? |
13316 | Wherefore what power is this that the possessors fear, which when thou wilt have, thou art not secure, and when thou wilt leave, thou canst not avoid? |
13316 | Wherefore, O man, what is it that hath cast thee into sorrow and grief? |
13316 | Wherefore, O mortal men, why seek you for your felicity abroad, which is placed within yourselves? |
13316 | Wherefore, enclosed and shut up in this smallest point of that other point, do you think of extending your fame and enlarging your name? |
13316 | Wherefore, what matter is it whether thou by dying leavest it, or it forsaketh thee by flying? |
13316 | Who after things unknown will strive to go? |
13316 | Who can for lovers laws indite? |
13316 | Who esteemed thee not most happy, having so noble a father- in- law, so chaste a wife, and so noble sons? |
13316 | Who is so happy that if he yieldeth to discontent, desireth not to change his estate? |
13316 | Who knows where faithful Fabrice''bones are pressed, Where Brutus and strict Cato rest? |
13316 | Who would esteem of fading honours then Which may be given thus by the wickedest men? |
13316 | Why brag you of your stock? |
13316 | Why do fierce tyrants us affright, Whose rage is far beyond their might? |
13316 | Why do proud men scorn that their necks should bear That yoke which every man must wear? |
13316 | Why dost thou not speak? |
13316 | Why embracest thou outward goods as if they were thine own? |
13316 | Why not, when their felicity lasteth always? |
13316 | Why not? |
13316 | Why not? |
13316 | Why rejoicest thou vainly? |
13316 | Why sheddest thou so many tears? |
13316 | Why should he not go on to call the very elements by that name? |
13316 | Why should we strive to die so many ways, And slay ourselves with our own hands? |
13316 | Why then, the hidden notes of things to find, Doth she with such a love of truth desire? |
13316 | Why weepest thou? |
13316 | Why, then, is that to be accounted feeble and of no force, which manifestly surpasses all other things? |
13316 | Wilt thou endeavour to gather money? |
13316 | Wilt thou excel in dignities? |
13316 | Wilt thou have it in one word? |
13316 | Wilt thou know the manner how? |
13316 | Wilt thou live a voluptuous life? |
13316 | Wilt thou then reckon with fortune? |
13316 | Wishest thou for power? |
13316 | Would those things which proceed from free- will be compelled to any necessity by this means?" |
13316 | Wouldst thou give due desert to all? |
13316 | Yet how can this be if Godhead in the conception of Christ received both human soul and body? |
13316 | You gallant men pursue this way of high renown, Why yield you? |
13316 | [ 103] Hast thou forgotten how Paul piously bewailed the calamities of King Perses his prisoner? |
13316 | [ 104] What other thing doth the outcry of tragedies lament, but that fortune, having no respect, overturneth happy states? |
13316 | [ 123] Seest thou what great ignominy dignities heap upon evil men? |
13316 | [ 125] What power is this, then, which can not expel nor avoid biting cares and pricking fears? |
13316 | [ 153] Do they such wars unjustly wage, Because their lives and manners disagree, And so themselves with mutual weapons kill? |
13316 | [ 86] At cuius criminis arguimur summam quaeris? |
13316 | or in what shall the divine providence exceed human opinion, if, as men, God judgeth those things to be uncertain the event of which is doubtful? |