DescartesJ.B. lippincott Company, 1887 - 211 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 9 - Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.
الصفحة 175 - I say, that you should consider that these functions in the machine naturally proceed from the mere arrangement of its organs, neither more nor less than do the movements of a clock, or other automaton, from that of its weights and its wheels; so that, so far as these are concerned, it is not necessary to conceive any other vegetative or sensitive soul...
الصفحة 180 - ... is of the same kind ; and finally that of dogs and cats, which scratch the earth to bury their excrements, though they hardly ever really do so ; which shows that they do it by instinct, without thinking. We can only say that though the beasts perform no acts which can prove to us that they think, still, because of the likeness of their organs to ours, we may conjecture that there is some thought joined to them, as we perceive in our own case, although theirs must be far less perfect To this...
الصفحة 51 - What other country where you can enjoy such perfect liberty, where you can sleep with more security, where there are always armies on foot for the purpose of protecting us, where poisoning, treacheries, calumnies are less known, and where there has survived more of the innocence of our ancestors...
الصفحة 106 - Hague, and return in the evening, making this excursion by the most beautiful road in the world, through meadows and houses of pleasance, then through a great wood bordering this village, which is not inferior to the fairest towns of Europe, and boasted at that time the residence of three courts. That of the prince of Orange was quite military.
الصفحة 51 - If there be pleasure in seeing the fruit grow in your orchard . . . think you there is not as much in seeing the vessels arrive which bring an abundance of all the produce of the Indies and all that is rare in Europe?
الصفحة 106 - He was in a little chateau of fine situation, close to a great and fair university, three leagues from the Court, and hardly two hours from the sea. He had a sufficient staff of servants, all well chosen and comely people ; a nice garden, with an orchard beyond it ; and all around pastures, from which stood out many steeples of various heights, till in the far horizon they seemed mere points. He could go in a day by canal to Utrecht, Delft, Rotterdam, Dordrecht, Haarlem, or Amsterdam. He could spend...