 | Thomas Chalmers - 1850 - 430 страници
...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.... | |
 | Henry Augustus Rowland - 1850 - 320 страници
...and then destroy it ; but he cannot create a world and not create it at the same time. He cannot make a thing to be and not to be at the same time ; he cannot make two and two five ; nor a triangle and circle of the same linear shape, because these... | |
 | Charles Elliott - 1851 - 504 страници
...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... | |
 | Leonard Woods - 1851 - 612 страници
...or absurd, or what is, from the very nature of the case, impossible. For example ; he cannot cause a thing to be and not to be, at the same time, and in the same respect. Or, he cannot cause a part of a thing to be greater than the whole of it.... | |
 | Leonard Woods - 1851 - 604 страници
...or absurd, or what is, from the very nature of the case, impossible. For example ; he cannot cause a thing to be and not to be, at the same time, and in the same respect. Or, he cannot cause a part of a thing to be greater than the whole of it.... | |
 | Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller - 1852 - 416 страници
...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... | |
 | Lyman Beecher - 1852 - 456 страници
...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,... | |
 | Lyman Beecher - 1852 - 432 страници
...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 - 452 страници
...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... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe - 1853 - 428 страници
...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... | |
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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. 
