The Works of Lord Bolingbroke: With a Life, Prepared Expressly for this Edition, Containing Additional Information Relative to His Personal and Public Character, Volume 4Carey and Hart, 1841 - Great Britain |
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... truth that any orthodox belief was settled so soon , we must not believe . There were many such , and the proofs are at hand , both in their writings , and much more in the anecdotes concerning them . But that which deserves our ...
... truth that any orthodox belief was settled so soon , we must not believe . There were many such , and the proofs are at hand , both in their writings , and much more in the anecdotes concerning them . But that which deserves our ...
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... truth they submitted to that of the emperor , who would have a decision at any rate . The council made no converts . He made some hypocrites , who answered his purpose enough , by playing with words so dextrously as to adopt Athanasian ...
... truth they submitted to that of the emperor , who would have a decision at any rate . The council made no converts . He made some hypocrites , who answered his purpose enough , by playing with words so dextrously as to adopt Athanasian ...
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... truth is , that whether laymen came into these synods or not , as St. Gregory of Nazianzen complains bitterly that they did , the spirit of the court was the spirit that directed the determinations of councils . A succession of princes ...
... truth is , that whether laymen came into these synods or not , as St. Gregory of Nazianzen complains bitterly that they did , the spirit of the court was the spirit that directed the determinations of councils . A succession of princes ...
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... truth , and contradicted human reason less , yet this held out more of the marvellous : and the marvellous in matters of religion , that is presumed to be revealed , will impose and affect more than truth and reason . This was an ...
... truth , and contradicted human reason less , yet this held out more of the marvellous : and the marvellous in matters of religion , that is presumed to be revealed , will impose and affect more than truth and reason . This was an ...
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... truth is , that the church has been in every age an hydra , such a monster as the poets feign with many heads . All these heads hissed and barked and tore one another with fury . As fast as some were cut off , others sprouted out , and ...
... truth is , that the church has been in every age an hydra , such a monster as the poets feign with many heads . All these heads hissed and barked and tore one another with fury . As fast as some were cut off , others sprouted out , and ...
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Page 26 - Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and, if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life...
Page 129 - In effect, it is something imperfect that cannot exist, an idea wherein some parts of several different and inconsistent ideas are put together.
Page 47 - And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Page 312 - It was foretold, that to him should the gathering of the people be ; and that God would give him the Heathen for his inheritance, and the utmost parts of the earth for his possession, which was punctually fulfilled by the wonderful success of the gospel, and its universal propagation throughout the world.
Page 49 - AND he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.
Page 195 - And if we may not suppose men ever to have been in the state of Nature, because we hear not much of them in such a state, we may as well suppose the armies of Salmanasser or Xerxes were never children, because we hear little of them till they were men and embodied in armies.
Page 99 - That also of the procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son...
Page 180 - The laws of nature are, truly, what lord Bacon styles his aphorisms, laws of laws. Civil laws are always imperfect, and often false deductions from them, or applications of them ; nay, they stand, in many instances, in direct opposition to them.
Page 230 - And every daughter that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers.
Page 405 - As in matters of sense, the reason why a thing is visible is not because it is seen, but it is therefore seen because it is visible : so in matters of natural reason and morality, that which is holy and good...