The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding].

  • Henry Fielding
Date:
1755
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Credit: The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    € therefore co-eval with the fupreme s Being, and therefore anterior to all 4 other natures. In this intelle&ual c chaos God fees, and man muft endea- 4 vour to fee, the natures, the real 4 eflences of things: and thus the foun- 4 dations of morality are laid higher than 4 the exiftence of any moral agents, he- 4 fore there was any fyftem of being 4 from which the obligations to it could 4 refult, or to which they could be ap- 4 plied : juft as the fame philofophers 4 fuppofe the incorporeal efiences of * white and black to have exifted when 4 there was no fuch thing as colour, and 4 thofe of a fquare and circle, when 4 there was neither form nor figure \y Here I am afraid the learned peer hath gone no farther for his erudition than the firft or fecond pages of Ovid’s Metamorphofis: for could he be recall¬ ed from the dead, contrary to his own doctrine, as he hath recalled Defcartes, a Ibid, page 6. N 3 and