Reflexions upon the Books of the Holy Scriptures to establish the Truth of the Christian Religion, by Peter Allix, D.
The Abbe Dubos was a writer of some merit on a great variety of subjects; his Reflexions sur la Poesie et la Peinture being of value.
Certainly," replied the other, "and not only this, but all serious reflexionslead to the great question.
Such reflexionsmust have filled his mind; nor was it possible that he should have driven them away.
A bright, peaceful morning; the rays of the sun crept warm and agreeably through the foliage of the apricot trees, and threw green reflexions into the station-room.
About two o'clock the lake was as smooth as a sheet of glass, and showed curious confused reflexions of the mountains.
And where the sunbeams played on the gold of Buddha's robe and broke on the leaves of the golden lotus-flower, out of which he rises, reflexions were scattered through the fairy hall, and the pillars shone like transparent rubies.
In 1794, she issued a pamphlet, entitled "Reflexions sur la Paix, adressees a M.
The next pamphlet she published, was in 1795: "Reflexions sur la Paix Interieure.
At first the conversation was of a languid and weary character; Don Calixto, the judge, and Cæsar started in to exchange political reflexions of crass vulgarity.
We see now that the impulses, which in politics are called evolution and revolution, are only reflexions of Nature's movements.
Miss Chancellor made her reflexions on all this, and the first of them was that it was happy for her that she had determined for the present to accept these accidents, for otherwise might she not now have had a deeper alarm?
Yet such reflexions would, in the main, be just, and surely they would greatly tend to quiet the minds of the unsuccessful.
Such spontaneous reflexions cannot be expected in persons who are engaged in unceasing labour, to procure a very moderate share (in their estimation at least) of the comforts of life.
Few, I suppose, would be hardy enough to print reflexions on the conduct of government, or its principal officers, as such publications would be attended with certain ruin.
What reflexions does it not awake, of the dreadful heartless state in which the creature (a female too) must have lived, who in death wants the accompaniment of one genuine tear.
The play itself abounds in maxims and reflexions beyond any other, and therefore we consider it as a proper vehicle for conveying moral instruction.
These reflexions roused him to action, and produced a scheme worthy of himself.
Had he been the amiable man Mr. Wolsely represents him, he needed not have suffered so many pangs of remorse, nor felt the horrors of conscience, nor been driven almost to despair by his reflexions on a mispent life.
I have had many melancholy reflexions on the forlorn and helpless situation you must be in, if it should please God to remove me from you, before you arrive at that period of life, when you will be able to think and act for yourselves.
I shall throw my reflexions together without any studied order; and shall only, to avoid confusion, range them under a few general heads.
The vertical symmetry of a Gothic cathedral strikes us at once, whereas we can travel up and down the whole length of the Rhine or the Hudson without becoming aware of the symmetry between objects and their reflexions in the water.
Footnote 5: Like reflexionsare found in Quételet, Du système sociale.
The foregoing reflexions will gain in lucidity from a consideration of the conformity which obtains in the behavior of all energies, a point to which I called attention long ago.
The sentiment of these reflexions was very just; but it was not exactly true that Ralph Touchett had had a key put into his hand.
By the time she had made these reflexions she became aware that the lady at the piano played remarkably well.
The girl made these reflexions while the three ladies sat at their tea, but that ceremony was interrupted before long by the arrival of the great doctor from London, who had been immediately ushered into the drawing-room.
That personage drove over from Lockleigh and brought the elder of his sisters with him, a measure presumably dictated by reflexions of the same order as Mr. Touchett's.
The colours of the secondary bow are much fainter than those of the primary, because they undergo two reflexions instead of one.
Hence the secondary is formed in the outside of the primary bow, with its colours reversed, in consequence of their being produced by two reflexions and two refractions.
The Abbe de Saint-Pierre applied it to explain the origin of the Mohammedan religion, and the Abbe Du Bos in his Reflexions on Poetry and Painting maintained that climate helps to determine the epochs of art and science.
Arnauld to Father Malebranche (in hisReflexions on the New System of Nature and Grace, vol.
Leibniz has done me the honour to examine: and now I shall make somereflexions upon his answers.
He also sent them to Locke, hoping that Locke would write a reply, and that Leibniz's reflexions and Locke's reply might be appended to the projected French translation.
A second explanation in the same year appeared in Basnage's Histoire des Ouvrages des Savants, in answer to reflexions by the editor.
On these foundations he makes some good reflexions (ch.
And I do not know if it would be easy, apart from the reflexions we have just entertained, to untie the Gordian knot of contingency and freedom.
I find in the arguments that have just been quoted nothing which thesereflexions fail to satisfy.
They are sheer datum for us, and so are those reflexions of our environment which they mediate to us.
Reflexions on the System of Malebranche, from Thomas Aquinas, on the antecedent and consequent will of God).
Bayle combats those inward experiences, whereon [306] the Cartesians make freedom rest: but he begins by reflexionswith which I cannot agree.
For now, it will be well to continue our examination of the important question of the use of reason in theology, and to make reflexions upon what M.
I could not but reply in a suitable way to expressions so civil and to reflexions so instructive as his.
He admitted having examined them also for some long time already, and having sometimes been minded to publish upon this matter some reflexions whose chief aim should be such knowledge of God as is needed to awaken piety and to foster virtue.
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