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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... perfect pleafurę ; and thereby compenfate the want , and even the loss , of every other thing . A most ne- cessary expedient , could they have put the world in poffeffion of it . But how unhap- py they were in their gueffes what this ...
... perfect pleafurę ; and thereby compenfate the want , and even the loss , of every other thing . A most ne- cessary expedient , could they have put the world in poffeffion of it . But how unhap- py they were in their gueffes what this ...
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... perfect happiness , and that which is limited , dependent , and reaching only to a certain degree ; fuch as the conftitution and capacity of inferior beings will admit of ; and the feveral mea- fures and degrees of the latter , as they ...
... perfect happiness , and that which is limited , dependent , and reaching only to a certain degree ; fuch as the conftitution and capacity of inferior beings will admit of ; and the feveral mea- fures and degrees of the latter , as they ...
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... perfect poffeffion and enjoyment of complete and abfolutely perfect good ; that the matter , the poffef- fion , and the enjoyment , must all be per- fect , and abfolutely fo , to make out a hap- piness of this kind : the leaft remiffion ...
... perfect poffeffion and enjoyment of complete and abfolutely perfect good ; that the matter , the poffef- fion , and the enjoyment , must all be per- fect , and abfolutely fo , to make out a hap- piness of this kind : the leaft remiffion ...
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... perfect poffeffion of this fame perfect good , is as evident ; and that can- not fubfift without the abfolute property of it , independent of , and altogether a- bove the reach of , every other being : or , to ufe the Stoics phrafe ...
... perfect poffeffion of this fame perfect good , is as evident ; and that can- not fubfift without the abfolute property of it , independent of , and altogether a- bove the reach of , every other being : or , to ufe the Stoics phrafe ...
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... perfect being . The word is very common , but very general , and ap- plied to every thing that is , or rather that we have any knowledge of . Every body thinks he knows the meaning of it ; but when put upon explaining his concep- tions ...
... perfect being . The word is very common , but very general , and ap- plied to every thing that is , or rather that we have any knowledge of . Every body thinks he knows the meaning of it ; but when put upon explaining his concep- tions ...
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