 | David Hume - 1817 - 540 sider
...over a material one, that the most refined thought is able to actuate the grossest matter ? Were we empowered, by a secret wish, to remove mountains,...would not be more extraordinary, nor more beyond our comprehension. But if VOL. n. T by consciousness we perceived any power or energy in tho will, we must... | |
 | David Hume - 1817 - 528 sider
...over a material one, that the most refined thought is able to actuate the grossest matter ? Were we empowered, by a secret wish, to remove mountains, or control the planets in their orbit 5 this extensive authority would not be more extraordinary, nor more beyond our comprehension. But... | |
 | David Hume - 1825 - 546 sider
...over a material one, that the most refined thought is able to actuate the grossest matter? Were we empowered, by a se,cret wish, to remove mountains, or control the planets in their orbits; .this extensive authority would not be more extraordinary, nor more beyond our comprehension.... | |
 | David Hume - 1826 - 628 sider
...over a material one, that the most refined thought is able to actuate the grossest matter ? Were we empowered, by a secret wish, to remove mountains,...would not be more extraordinary, nor more beyond our comprehension. But if, by consciousness, we perceived any power or energy in the will, we must know... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 480 sider
...OVER A MATERIAL ONE, THAT THE MOST REFINED THOUGHT IS ABLE TO ACTUATE THE GROSSEST MATTER ? WERE WE EMPOWERED, BY A SECRET WISH, TO REMOVE MOUNTAINS, OR CONTROL THE PLANETS IN THEIR ORBITS, THIS EXTENSIVE AUTHORITY WOULD NOT BE MORE EXTRAORDINARY NOR MORE BEYOND OUR COMPREHENSION."... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 474 sider
...OVER A MATERIAL ONE, THAT THE MOST REFINED THOUGHT IS ABLE TO ACTUATE THE GROSSEST MATTER ? WERE WE EMPOWERED, BY A SECRET WISH, TO REMOVE MOUNTAINS, OR CONTROL THE PLANETS IN THEIR ORBITS, THIS EXTENSIVE AUTHORITY WOULD NOT III. MORE EXTRAORDINARY NOR MORE BEYOND OUR COMPREHENSION."... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 576 sider
...they also are possessed of it." — EDITIONS K. h. is able to actuate the grossest matter ? Were we empowered, by a secret wish, to remove mountains,...would not be more extraordinary, nor more beyond our comprehension. But if, by consciousness, we perceived any power or energy in the will, we must know... | |
 | Plato - 1854 - 352 sider
...secret wish, to remove mounIMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. 179 tains, or control the planets in their orbits, this extensive authority would not be more extraordinary, nor more beyond our comprehension. — David Hume. Death is the great divider, but it is of things that are divisible.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 514 sider
...material one, that the most refined thought is able to actuate the grossest matter 1 Were we empowered, hy a secret wish, to remove mountains, or control the planets in their orbits, this extensive author!/y imu/d not he more extraordinary, nor more beyond our comprenension."... | |
 | John Henry Freese - 1864 - 292 sider
...influence over a material one that the most refined thought is able to actuate the grossest matter? Were we empowered by a secret wish to remove mountains or...enlightened age ; when he might have been informed that this inexplicable phenomenon was, after all, the result of the most simple contrivance, arising from nothing... | |
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Is there any principle in all nature more mysterious than the union of soul with body; by which a supposed spiritual substance acquires such an influence over a material one, that the most refined thought is able to actuate the grossest matter? Were we... 
