10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OMNIPOTENCY»
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omnipotency in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
omnipotency and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
For I see no contradiction in it, that the first eternal thinking Being should, if he
pleased, give to certain systems of created senseless matter, put together as he
thinks fit, some degrees " If it be asked, why they limit the omnipotency of God in ...
By the same reason it is plain that neither of them can move itself : now I would
ask why Omnipotency cannot give to either of these substances, which are
equally in a state of perfect inactivity, the same power that it can give to the other
?
John Locke, James Augustus St. John, 1854
Now I would ask, why omnipotency cannot give to either of these substances,
which are equally in a state of perfect inactivity, the fame power, that it can give to
the other ? Let it be, for example, that of spontaneous, or self-motion, which is a ...
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The living temple; or, A designed improvement of that ...
And why must we so difference the object of omnisciency and omnipotency, as to
make that so much narrower than this ? And then how is it 'all things,' when so
great a number of things will be left excluded? Whereas from the object of ...
John Howe, Henry Rogers, 1870
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An essay concerning human understanding. To which are now ...
If it be asked, why they limit the omnipotency of God, in reference to the one
rather than the other of these substances ? all that can be said to it is, that they
cannot conceive, how the solid substance should ever be able to move itself. And
as ...
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Essay concerning human understanding (concluded) Defence of ...
If it be asked, why they limit the omnipotency of God, in reference to the one
rather than the other of these substances ? all that can be said to it is, that they
cannot conceive, how the solid substance should ever be able to move itself. And
as ...
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The Works of John Locke: Essay concerning human ...
If it be asked, why they limit the omnipotency of God, in reference to the one
rather than the other of these substances ? all that can be said to it is, that they
cannot conceive, how the solid substance should ever be able to move itself. And
as ...
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The Works of the Rev --- as published during his life.edit. 1724
not to leave the blessed God equally entitled to omnisciency, as the latter to
omnipotency. For all things should not be alike the object of both; and why should
not that be understood to signify the knowledge of simply all things, as well as
this ...
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The works of John Locke. To which is added the life of the ...
But for that reason, to deny that God, who had power enough to give them both a
being out of nothing, can, by the same omnipotency, give them what other
powers and perfections he pleases; has no better a foundation than to deny his
power ...
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An essay concerning human understanding. To which are now ...
Jf it be asked, why they limit the omnipotency of God, in reference to the one
rather than the other of these substances ? all that can be said to it is, that they
cannot conceive, how the solid substance should ever be able to move itself. And
as ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OMNIPOTENCY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
omnipotency is used in the context of the following news items.
LeBron-mania overshadowing solid work by David Blatt: Jeff …
I realize this might be considered blasphemous among the NBA cognoscenti. It doesn't fit the LeBron James omnipotency narrative. But Blatt's ... «NOLA.com, Jun 15»
13 Big Questions Left Unanswered By Avengers: Age of Ultron
... is that he's somehow waltzed right into Odin's secret lock box to take the glove he needs to combine the rocks which grant near-omnipotency. «Film School Rejects, May 15»
Learning From Yesterday By Wole Soyinka
Augmented by the omnipotency of a sitting governor, now himself definitively exposed as a product of a conspiratorial and criminal electoral ... «SaharaReporters.com, Mar 15»
Watch And Pray, Watch And Prey By Wole Soyinka
Does our home-bred Double-O-Seven believe in anything outside his own Omnipotency? Could he possibly have mistaken the Christian ... «SaharaReporters.com, Dec 14»
Lynne Barrett-Lee: What it feels like to be a real girl
Girls start out, just like boys, full of glorious omnipotency. Yet how soon the rules change for adolescent females. Just as Ginger Rogers pointed ... «WalesOnline, Aug 14»
Socialism from below
Bellamy's notebooks reveal him as a classic case: he writes about the longing "for absorption into the grand omnipotency of the universe;" his ... «Socialist Worker Online, Jun 14»
Razer's Class Warfare: you call that a protest?
That degeneration of journalism seems to happen a lot, as they get older and take themselves and their omnipotency of opinions too seriously? «Crikey, May 14»
Love it, hate it but IPL is too big to be ignored
By the way, if you can feel the IPL's omnipotency here, imagine what it is like every year when it is staged in India. It was not for nothing that the ... «The National, Apr 14»
New English translation of Dante an impressive feat
... but then that's forgivable as a secular translation of divine omnipotency. He can, on the other hand, return us to a sense of the original: when ... «The Japan Times, Aug 13»
ATP Synthase: The power plant of the cell
So what I wanted to say with this additional post is this: If intelligent design is true, God is a pretty shitty engineer. And that's not omnipotency at ... «YouTube, Jan 13»
