An Enquiry After Philosophy and Theology: Tending to Show when and Whence Mankind Came at the Knowledge of These Two Important PointsSands, Donaldson, Murray, and Cochran. Sold by A. Kincaid & A. Donaldson, 1755 - Philosophy - 425 pages |
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... nature and God muft be , his ambition prompts him to print . He garnishes out his notions with all the embellishments of ftyle , and seasons them to the prevailing taste of the age . If they happen to meet with a general run of credit ...
... nature and God muft be , his ambition prompts him to print . He garnishes out his notions with all the embellishments of ftyle , and seasons them to the prevailing taste of the age . If they happen to meet with a general run of credit ...
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... natural fickleness and giddinefs of mankind , prone to novelty , re- ceive it as fuch . The laft and present age ... nature and its au- thor , makes it highly reasonable to believe , that either God has given man a faculty , whereby ...
... natural fickleness and giddinefs of mankind , prone to novelty , re- ceive it as fuch . The laft and present age ... nature and its au- thor , makes it highly reasonable to believe , that either God has given man a faculty , whereby ...
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... natural abilities . Their method in the fearch of these truths plainly fhews they never dream- ed of any fuch thing ; for they ran about from place to place , to pick up what blind accounts they could from tradition , and from the ...
... natural abilities . Their method in the fearch of these truths plainly fhews they never dream- ed of any fuch thing ; for they ran about from place to place , to pick up what blind accounts they could from tradition , and from the ...
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... nature fufficient for the discoveries ; is an hypothe- fis which looks more like infpiration , or a certain revelation made to a particular fa- vourite of Heaven , than a natural faculty implanted in the minds of all men , improve- able ...
... nature fufficient for the discoveries ; is an hypothe- fis which looks more like infpiration , or a certain revelation made to a particular fa- vourite of Heaven , than a natural faculty implanted in the minds of all men , improve- able ...
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... nature , as they are common to all men , though not in the fame degree , if they are to be the guide of our actions , the teft of our faith in all matters here , and the rule whereby we are to be tried or judged hereafter , should shine ...
... nature , as they are common to all men , though not in the fame degree , if they are to be the guide of our actions , the teft of our faith in all matters here , and the rule whereby we are to be tried or judged hereafter , should shine ...
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