| Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807 - 464 pages
...dread ? What beings surround me ? and on whom have I any " influence, or who have any influence on me ? I am confounded with all " these questions, and begin...deprived of *' the use of every member and faculty." And is this the fruit of those boasted philosophical discoveries ? this the only end to which the most... | |
| Thomas Cogan - 1807 - 540 pages
...From what .causes do I derive my existence, and (o what condition shall I return? I am confounded with these questions, and begin to fancy myself In the...imaginable, environed with the deepest darkness."}: The trifler Voltaire has no claim to be placed in a Una •with the above Philosophers. They appeared... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1808 - 690 pages
...dread ? What beings surround me ? And on whom have I any influence, or who have any influence on me ? I am confounded with all these questions, and begin...environed with, the deepest darkness, and utterly dep-ived of the use of every member and faculty." Treat, of Human Nature, vol. I. p. 457. The foregoing... | |
| Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - Judges - 1814 - 482 pages
...in question. His Orations against Verres, however, are an exception ; though that plunderer was so " all these questions, and begin to fancy myself in...deprived of the use of every member '!* and faculty." And is this the fruit of those boasted philosophical discoveries ? this the only end to which the most... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1815 - 398 pages
...From what eausea do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I rcturn? I am confounded with these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the...imaginable, environed with the deepest darkness." It was this which pcopled with terrors the imagination of the dying Voltaire, when he dishurdened his... | |
| 1822 - 526 pages
...I dread ? What beings surround me ? On whom have I any influence, or who have any influence on me ? I am confounded with all these questions, and begin...deprived of the use of every member and faculty." But scepticism is no part of the system of Doctor Brown, though he has followed many of the errors... | |
| Theology - 1824 - 492 pages
...I derive existence, or to what condition do I return ? I am confounded with these questions ; and I begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition imaginable, environed with the deepest darkness ! — p. 332. ZOROASTER AND HIS RELIGION. THE religion of the Persians had followed the fate of then... | |
| Unitarianism - 1830 - 456 pages
...have I any influence, and who have any influence over me? I am confounded with all these questions; I begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition...with the deepest darkness, and utterly deprived of every member and faculty."* Is such a man an object of envy? Can any one wish to become, or wilfully... | |
| James Douglas (of Cavers.) - Christian heresies - 1831 - 334 pages
...whom have I any influence, or who have any influence on me ? I am confounded with all these quesiions, and begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition...utterly deprived of the use of every member and faculty. Most fortunately it happens, that since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself... | |
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