 | Charles Elliott - 1851 - 504 pages
...a thing remains without the essence ; that is, without itself;" and also that " this doctrine makes a thing to be and not to be at the same time and in the same respect." The doctrine of transubstantiation is against the nature and essence of a... | |
 | Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller - 1852 - 416 pages
...directed against the first great law of logic, which logicians call the Principle of Contradiction, viz., that it is impossible for a thing to be and not to be at the same tune; or, as Schiller expresses it, that it is impossible for ten to be both ten and twelve; a truth... | |
 | 1850 - 426 pages
...that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as & There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes' on itself the... | |
 | Lyman Beecher - 1852 - 452 pages
...can do all things which are in their nature possible. Contradictions are impossibilities. To cause a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time, is an impossibility. To make a circle square, and a square round ; to make happiness misery, and misery... | |
 | Lyman Beecher - 1852 - 432 pages
...can do all things which are in their nature possible. Contradictions are impossibilities. To cause a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time, is an impossibility. To make a circle square, and a square round ; to make happiness misery, and misery... | |
 | Lyman Beecher - 1852 - 456 pages
...belongs to omnipotence to give to error the effect of truth, on the minds of free agents, than to cause a thing to be, and not to be. at the same time. A law without rewards or punishments cannot be made as influential on moral beings as a law with sanctions,... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe - 1853 - 428 pages
...sovereignty of the divine omnipotence that ever lived, it is said, " God cannot work contradictions, as make a thing to be and not to be at the same time, to make a part greater than the whole ; to make what is past present, or what is present future." (Lecture... | |
 | Lyman Beecher - 1853 - 348 pages
...can do all things which are in their nature possible. Contradictions are impossibilities. To cause a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time, is an impossibility. To make a circle square, and a square round; to make happiness misery, and misery... | |
 | American Unitarian Association. Western Conference - 1854 - 100 pages
...cannot be any contradiction in His government. He cannot make it light and dark in the same place, or a thing to be and not to be at the same time. A comparison is sometimes jnade between the union of our bodies and 'spirits, and two natures in Christ.... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1855 - 766 pages
...jumps), and the law of continuity is exactly preserved. The two great principles of Leibnitz were, that it is impossible for a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time; and that nothing is without a sufficient reason why it should be so, rather than otherwise. Descartes... | |
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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. 
