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" Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. "
General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most Eminent ... - Page 183
by John Aikin - 1807
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Enchiridion theologicum anti-Romanum, tracts on the points at ..., Volume 1

Enchiridion - 1836 - 730 pages
...essence remains without the essence," that is, " without itself." The other, that " this doctrine makes a thing to be and not to be at the same time." I shall use them both but promiscuously, because they are reducible to one. 11. The doctrine of transubstantiation...
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The works of Thomas Chalmers, Volume 1

Thomas Chalmers - 1836 - 434 pages
...that involves in it either a logical or a mathematical contradiction. He could not, for example, make a thing to be and not to be at the same time — or he could not make a circle whose circumference shall be precisely three times its diameter....
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The Works of Rev. Jesse Appleton...: Embracing His Course of ..., Volume 1

Jesse Appleton - 1837 - 562 pages
...produce infinite effects ; and 2. Unless he can cause a part to be greater than the whole, and cause a thing to be and not to be at the same time. I answer, that neither of these effects is conceivable. They both imply absurdity. If there could be,...
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Notes on the Four Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles ..., Volume 1

Frederic Martin (of London.) - 1838 - 418 pages
...itself: because these things are as plainly impossible, and as directly opposed to reason and nature, as for a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time; insomuch that nothing could be more, absurd than an attempt to prove their impossibility. Here, then,...
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Lectures on Theology, Volume 1

John Dick - 1838 - 564 pages
...of any of hw attributes, or to possess them in a less or a greater degree, as it would be to suppose a thing to be and not to be at the same time. The essences in fact of all things are immutable. They may be annihilated by the power which created...
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Discourses Upon the Existence and Attributes of God, Volume 1

Stephen Charnock - 1840 - 792 pages
...things are impossible in their own nature. Such are all those things which imply a contradiction ; as for a thing to be, and not to be at the same time ; for the sun to shine, and not to shine at the same moment of time; for a creature to act, and not...
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Discussion on the Existence of God and the Authenticity of the Bible Between ...

Origen Bacheler, Robert Dale Owen - 1840 - 386 pages
...understand me to mean ; which is not that he can do what would involve contradictions, lilte causing a thing to be and not to be at the same time ; nor that he can do any thing which in the nature of things is impossible, like moving matter by persuasion,...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the...
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The Oracle of Reason; Or, Philosophy Vindicated ...

1842 - 420 pages
...But it is clear that he could, for he is " all powerful," by which I do not mean that he can cause a thing to be and not to be at the same time ; but, that he is " alt the power that is in the universe, AND NO MORE ; and it would be difficult...
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The Existence of Evil Spirits Proved: And Their Agency, Particularly in ...

Walter Scott - 1843 - 552 pages
...in the plain common maxim, or axiom, as it may be called ; — for surely it is as self-evident as that it is impossible for a thing to be and not to be at the same time, or that the whole is greater than the parts, — " Quod nullibi est, nan est, — what exists nowhere...
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