Origines Sacrae Or a Rational Account of the Grounds of Natural and Revealed Religion: To which is Added Part of Another Book Upon the Same Subject, Left Unfinished by the Author : Together with a Letter to a Deist, Volume 1 |
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... greatest ambition of the author of it is , to have it received into your patronage and protection . But although the contexture and frame of this treatise be far below the excellency and worth of the subject , ( as you know the ark in ...
... greatest ambition of the author of it is , to have it received into your patronage and protection . But although the contexture and frame of this treatise be far below the excellency and worth of the subject , ( as you know the ark in ...
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... greatest evidence that they come from God . And al- though I have had the happiness of so near relation to you , as to know how little you need such discourses which tend to settle the foundations of religion , which you have raised so ...
... greatest evidence that they come from God . And al- though I have had the happiness of so near relation to you , as to know how little you need such discourses which tend to settle the foundations of religion , which you have raised so ...
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... greatest gallantry , we shall find it made up of such pitiful ingredients which any skilful and rational mind will be ashamed to plead for , much less to mention them in competition with true goodness and unfeigned piety . For how easy ...
... greatest gallantry , we shall find it made up of such pitiful ingredients which any skilful and rational mind will be ashamed to plead for , much less to mention them in competition with true goodness and unfeigned piety . For how easy ...
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... greatest gallants ? Is there nothing more graceful and pleasing in the sweetness , candour , and ingenuity of a truly Christian temper and disposition , than in the revengeful , implacable spirit of such whose honour lives and is fed by ...
... greatest gallants ? Is there nothing more graceful and pleasing in the sweetness , candour , and ingenuity of a truly Christian temper and disposition , than in the revengeful , implacable spirit of such whose honour lives and is fed by ...
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... greatest folly , and irreligion , madness . It cannot be then but matter of great pity to consider that any persons , whose birth and education hath raised them above the common people of the world , should be so far their own enemies ...
... greatest folly , and irreligion , madness . It cannot be then but matter of great pity to consider that any persons , whose birth and education hath raised them above the common people of the world , should be so far their own enemies ...
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