 First, by this method of reasoning you renounce all claim to infinity in any of the attributes of the Deity. For, as the cause ought only to be proportioned to the effect, and the effect, so far as it falls under our cognizance, is not infinite, what...  Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion - Page 104by David Hume - 1779 - 264 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1779 - 508 pages
...occafions ; but found philofophy Ought carefully to guard againll fo natural an illufion. ' By your method of reafoning you renounce all claim to infinity...in any of the attributes of the Deity. For as the canfe ought cnly to be proportioned to the tffecl ; and the effect, fo far as it falls under our cognizance,... | |
 | David Hume - 1788 - 600 pages
...THES. Now, CLEANTHES, faid PHILO, with an air of alacrity and triumph, mark the confequences. Firjlf By this method of reafoning, you renounce all claim...proportioned to the effect ; and the effect, fo far as jt falls under our cognifance, is not infinite; what pretenfions have G g 3 we, * De nat. Deor. lib.... | |
 | William Honyman Gillespie - God - 1843 - 422 pages
...May, 1843. INQUIRY INTO THE DEFECTS MERE A POSTERIORI ARGUMENTS A GOD. " By this method of reasoning, you renounce all claim to infinity in any of " the attributes of the DEITY. For, as the cause ought only to be propor" tioned to the effect, and the effect, so far as it falls under our cognizance,... | |
 | Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1845 - 560 pages
...Triumph — Mark the consequence. First By this Method of claim Reasoning, you renounce all P*ctcnaiono to Infinity in any of the attributes of the Deity. For as the Cause ought only to be proportion'd to the Effect, andlhe Effect so far as it falls under yon wiH ,... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Authors - 1845 - 582 pages
...Triumph—Mark the consequence. First By this Method of claim Reasoning, you renounce all Pi-ctcnBieno to Infinity in any of the attributes of the Deity. For as the Cause ought only to be proportion'd to the Effect, and the Effect so far as it falls under you will... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 572 pages
...Philo, with an air of alacrity and triumph, mark the consequences. First, By this method of reasoning, you renounce all claim to infinity in any of the attributes of the Deity. For, as the cause ought only to be proportioned to the effect, and the effect, so far as it falls under our cognizance,... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 564 pages
...Philo, with an air of alacrity and triumph, mark the consequences. First, By this method of reasoning, you renounce all claim to infinity in any of the attributes of the Deity. For, as the cause ought only to be proportioned to the effect, and the effect, so far as it falls under our cognizance,... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - English literature - 1856 - 470 pages
...Triumph — Mark the consequence. First By this Method claim of Keasoning, you renounce all Frctcnciono to Infinity in any of the attributes of the Deity. For as the Cause ought only to be proportion'd to the Effect, and the Effect so far as it falls under our cognisance... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 458 pages
...Triumph — Mark the consequence. First By this Method claim of Reasoning, you renounce all Frctcndono to Infinity in any of the attributes of the Deity. For as the Cause ought only to be proportion'd to the Effect, and the Effect so far as it falls under our cognisance... | |
 | David Hume - Knowledge, Theory of - 1882 - 524 pages
...PHILO, with an air of alacrity and triumph, mark the consequences. First, By this method of reasoning, you renounce all claim to infinity in any of the attributes of the Deity. For as the cause ought only to be proportioned to the effect, and the effect, so far as it falls under our cognisance,... | |
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