The Works of the Late Reverend Mr. Robert Riccaltoun, Minister of the Gospel at Hobkirk, Volume 1A. Murray & J. Cochran, 1771 |
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... direct and in- tuitive manner , without any of those round - about ways which we find our- felves obliged to take , even with such things as lie next to our hands . From the fame views of life we readily conclude , there muft , in the ...
... direct and in- tuitive manner , without any of those round - about ways which we find our- felves obliged to take , even with such things as lie next to our hands . From the fame views of life we readily conclude , there muft , in the ...
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... direct ways of at- taining this neceffary piece of knowledge ; an immediate intuitive perception of every thing belonging to the conftitution itfelf ; or , where that cannot be had , fuch a nar- row examination of those qualities and ...
... direct ways of at- taining this neceffary piece of knowledge ; an immediate intuitive perception of every thing belonging to the conftitution itfelf ; or , where that cannot be had , fuch a nar- row examination of those qualities and ...
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... direct view of its fubftance or effence : but in this re- spect likewise it is no more inconceivable than the groffeft matter . The most that can be made , even of fuch things as fall most fully under our obfervation , is fome cir ...
... direct view of its fubftance or effence : but in this re- spect likewise it is no more inconceivable than the groffeft matter . The most that can be made , even of fuch things as fall most fully under our obfervation , is fome cir ...
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... direct and intuitive knowledge of the whole of the procedure to every man who has patience and attention enough to obferve it . There the mind becomes her own object ; and , by the intuitive con- sciousness she has of her actings and ...
... direct and intuitive knowledge of the whole of the procedure to every man who has patience and attention enough to obferve it . There the mind becomes her own object ; and , by the intuitive con- sciousness she has of her actings and ...
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... direct intuition of its own fubftance , nor can know any more of its nature than can be gathered from its operations and act- ings , it must continue in a state of stupid inactivity , without fo much as being con- fcious of its own ...
... direct intuition of its own fubftance , nor can know any more of its nature than can be gathered from its operations and act- ings , it must continue in a state of stupid inactivity , without fo much as being con- fcious of its own ...
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