Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself as for a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time. Lion - Sivu 1701828Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| John Dick - 1850 - 560 sivua
...this perfection which are afforded by his works. First, God cannot work contradictions, as to make a thing to be and not to be at the same time ; to make a part greater than the whole ; to make what is past, present ; or what is present, future.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 sivua
...they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - 1850 - 430 sivua
...that involves in it either a logical or a mathematical contradiction. He could not, for example, make a thing to be and not to be at the same time — or he could not make a circle whose circumference shall be precisely three times its diameter.... | |
| Joseph Bellamy - 1850 - 760 sivua
...reconciled to a character against which he was not at enmity, implies a contradiction ; for it supposes a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time. For a call to a reconciliation supposes enmity ; therefore the gospel did not call Adam after his fall... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 356 sivua
...they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the... | |
| Charles Elliott - 1851 - 504 sivua
...a thing remains without the essence ; that is, without itself;" and also that " this doctrine makes a thing to be and not to be at the same time and in the same respect." The doctrine of transubstantiation is against the nature and essence of a... | |
| Leonard Woods - 1851 - 612 sivua
...or absurd, or what is, from the very nature of the case, impossible. For example ; he cannot cause a thing to be and not to be, at the same time, and in the same respect. Or, he cannot cause a part of a thing to be greater than the whole of it.... | |
| Leonard Woods - 1851 - 604 sivua
...or absurd, or what is, from the very nature of the case, impossible. For example ; he cannot cause a thing to be and not to be, at the same time, and in the same respect. Or, he cannot cause a part of a thing to be greater than the whole of it.... | |
| Lyman Beecher - 1852 - 456 sivua
...belongs to omnipotence to give to error the effect of truth, on the minds of free agents, than to cause a thing to be, and not to be. at the same time. A law without rewards or punishments cannot be made as influential on moral beings as a law with sanctions,... | |
| 1850 - 426 sivua
...they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes' on itself the... | |
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