| John Brewster - Church year meditations - 1834 - 382 pages
...which we existed when in the womb; but a continuation of both with such and such great alterations. Death may immediately in the natural course of things,...which our capacities, and sphere of perception, and action, may be greater than at present." — " Our present powers and capacities of reason, memory,... | |
| Apologetics - 1834 - 588 pages
...when in the womb, but a continuation of both, with such and such great alterations. Nay, for ought we know of ourselves, of our present life, and of...and more enlarged state of life, as our birth does ;-f- a state in which our capacities and sphere of perception, and of action, may be much greater than... | |
| Richard Cattermole - Christianity - 1834 - 414 pages
...when in the womb; but a continuation of both, with such and such great alterations. Nay, for ought we know of ourselves, of our present life and of death;...higher and more enlarged state of life, as our birth does;2 a state in which our capacities, and sphere of 1 There are three distinct questions relating... | |
| Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1838 - 616 pages
...when in the womb, but a continuation of both, with such and such great alterations. Nay, for aught we know of ourselves, of our present life, and of...higher and more enlarged state of life, as our birth doest; a state in which our capacities and sphere of perception, and of action, may be much greater... | |
| Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - Theology - 1838 - 632 pages
...when in the womb ; but a continuation of both, with such and such great alterations. Nay, for ought we know of ourselves, of our present life and of death...higher and more enlarged state of life, as our birth doesjt a state in which our capacities, and sphere of perception and of action, may be much greater... | |
| Henry Fergus - Natural theology - 1838 - 332 pages
...upon it, his life in the world would appear a problem as difficult as immortality does at present. Death may immediately, in the natural course of things,...and more enlarged state of life, as our birth does. The one, like the other, may be a continuation and enlargement of powers.* After birth there is a continuation... | |
| Henry Fergus - Natural theology - 1838 - 332 pages
...upon it, his life in the world would appear a problem as difficult as immortality does at present. Death may immediately, in the natural course of things,...and more enlarged state of life, as our birth does. The one, like the other, may be a continuation and enlargement of powers.* After birth there is a continuation... | |
| James Stamford Caldwell - Literature and morals - 1843 - 372 pages
...evolaverunt: vestra vero, qute dicitur vita, mors est." 4 See Barrow's Serm. vol. ii. 109. fol. c 3 natural course of things, put us into a higher and...and of action may be much greater than at present. 1 It is impossible that any thing so certain, and so universal, as death, can be intended as an evil... | |
| Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1843 - 358 pages
...continuation of both, with such and such great alterations. Nay, for ought we know of ourselves, of our pres and of death, death may immediately, in the natural...things, put us into a higher and more enlarged state ofv"« "^ life, as our birth does ;| a state in which our capacities and '^'< sphere of perception,... | |
| United States - 1847 - 606 pages
...gradual in oncease, and ia the other will be more at once, does not prove anything to the contrary." Death may immediately, in the natural course of things,...which our capacities and sphere of perception and action may be much greater than at present, for as our relation to our external organs of sense renders... | |
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