The Connexion of Natural and Divine Truth: Or, The Study of the Inductive Philosophy, Considered as Subservient to Theology |
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... whole Doc- trine of Final Causes , & c . , by the Rev. W. J. Irons , of Queen's College , Oxford . London , 1836 . This writer , upon professedly philosophical prin- ciples , and by an elaborate metaphysical argument , has undertaken to ...
... whole Doc- trine of Final Causes , & c . , by the Rev. W. J. Irons , of Queen's College , Oxford . London , 1836 . This writer , upon professedly philosophical prin- ciples , and by an elaborate metaphysical argument , has undertaken to ...
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... whole manner and appearance of the volume , has tended , perhaps , to indispose some readers from doing justice to its real excellencies , and even to doubt its tendency . To return to the general subject : Upon long con- tinued ...
... whole manner and appearance of the volume , has tended , perhaps , to indispose some readers from doing justice to its real excellencies , and even to doubt its tendency . To return to the general subject : Upon long con- tinued ...
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... whole nature of the argu- ment . The order and chain of proof , indeed , seems to require but little consideration to render it evident . Yet it is very generally misconceived . That prolific source of mistake , the ambiguity of terms ...
... whole nature of the argu- ment . The order and chain of proof , indeed , seems to require but little consideration to render it evident . Yet it is very generally misconceived . That prolific source of mistake , the ambiguity of terms ...
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... whole broken and destroyed . The importance and precise office of physical science in the support of Divine truth , altogether , has been too commonly overlooked , or misunder- stood ; and often so totally misconceived as to give rise ...
... whole broken and destroyed . The importance and precise office of physical science in the support of Divine truth , altogether , has been too commonly overlooked , or misunder- stood ; and often so totally misconceived as to give rise ...
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... whole solar system . When the laws of the motion of one planet were established , a single conjecture sufficed to point out , with the highest degree of probability , the laws of all the other planetary orbits : and a single calcula ...
... whole solar system . When the laws of the motion of one planet were established , a single conjecture sufficed to point out , with the highest degree of probability , the laws of all the other planetary orbits : and a single calcula ...
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