| Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 518 pages
...reaches, We have already lost, several times over, a great part, or perhaps the whole of our bodies, according to certain common established laws of nature...death, why may we not also remain the same ? That the alteration has been gradual in one case, and in the other prompt, does not prove any thing to the contrary:... | |
| Joseph Butler - 1804 - 462 pages
...the living agents. We have already, several times over, lost a great • • * See Dissertation I. part, or perhaps the whole of our body, according to certain common established laws of nature; yet \ve remain the same living agents : when we shall lose as great a part, or the whole, by another common... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 272 pages
...of a rational or moral nature. It is well known that the bodies of animals are in constant flux: we have already, several times over, lost a great part, or perhaps the whole of our bodies; yet we remain the same living agents—why then should we not remain the same after death?... | |
| Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1819 - 362 pages
...conclude, what befalls those systems of matter at death, to be the destruction of the living agents.. We have already, several times over, lost a great part,...according to certain common established laws of nature j yet we Firstj That we have no way of determining by experience, what is the certain bulk of the living... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 750 pages
...bodies as we have at present. It is well known that the bodies of animals are in constant flux : we have already, several times over, lost a great part: or perhaps the whole of our bodies ; yet we remain the same living agents — why then should we not remain the same after death... | |
| Joseph Butler - 1824 - 484 pages
...conclude, what befals those systems of matter at death, to be the destruction of the living agents. We have already, several times over, lost a great part...common established laws of nature ; yet we remain the * See Dissertation I. p. 357. same living agents : when we shall lose as great a part, or the whole,... | |
| Joseph Butler - 1834 - 408 pages
...conclude, what befalls those systems of matter at death, to be the destruction of the living agents. We have already several times over lost a great part...perhaps the whole of our body, according to certain 1 See Dissertation 1. common established laws of nature ; yet we remain the same living agents : when... | |
| Richard Cattermole - 1834 - 414 pages
...conclude, what befalls those systems of matter at death, to be the destruction of the living agents. We have already several times over lost a great part...perhaps the whole of our body, according to certain 1 See Dissertation 1. common established laws of nature ; yet we remain the same living agents : when... | |
| Lady, A Lady - 1836 - 338 pages
...organs of sense, and even the greatest part of their bodies, and yet remain the same living agents. We have already, several times over, lost a great part,...perhaps the whole of our body, according to certain established laws of nature ; yet we remain the same living agents ; when we shall lose as great a part,... | |
| Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - 1838 - 632 pages
...conclude, what befalls those systems of matter at death, to be the destruction of the living agents. We have already several times over lost a great part...nature, death ; why may we not also remain the same P That the alienation has been gradual in one case, and in the other will be more at once, does not... | |
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