Origines Sacrae: Or a Rational Account of the Grounds of Natural and Revealed Religion ... Together with a Letter to a Deist, Volume 2Clarendon Press, 1797 - Apologetics |
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... tion of Epicurus's Atoms , and the Phænomena of the Univerfe ; efpecially the Production and Nature of Animals . XVIII . Of the Cartefian Hypothefis , that it cannot falve the Origin of the Universe without a Deity giving Motion to ...
... tion of Epicurus's Atoms , and the Phænomena of the Univerfe ; efpecially the Production and Nature of Animals . XVIII . Of the Cartefian Hypothefis , that it cannot falve the Origin of the Universe without a Deity giving Motion to ...
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... tion , I fuppofe , of what Thales meant by his water , which is the fame with that ixus , or mixture of mud and water together , which others fpeak of as the prin- ciple of the univerfe ; as Orpheus in Athenagoras , Grot . An- and the ...
... tion , I fuppofe , of what Thales meant by his water , which is the fame with that ixus , or mixture of mud and water together , which others fpeak of as the prin- ciple of the univerfe ; as Orpheus in Athenagoras , Grot . An- and the ...
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... tion itself fufpected among other philofophers , elpe- cially when the humour of innovating in philofophy was got among them ; and they thought they did no- thing unless they contradicted their masters : thence came that multiplicity of ...
... tion itself fufpected among other philofophers , elpe- cially when the humour of innovating in philofophy was got among them ; and they thought they did no- thing unless they contradicted their masters : thence came that multiplicity of ...
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... tion and production of the world , from this prin- ciple : If the world be dissolved , faith he , it must either be ἤτοι εἰς τὸ ὂν , ἢ εἰς τὸ μὴ ὂν , either into that which is , or into that which is not . It cannot be diffolved into ...
... tion and production of the world , from this prin- ciple : If the world be dissolved , faith he , it must either be ἤτοι εἰς τὸ ὂν , ἢ εἰς τὸ μὴ ὂν , either into that which is , or into that which is not . It cannot be diffolved into ...
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... tion by . For fuppofing a production of the world , feveral things muft of neceffity be fuppofed in it dif- ferent from what the prefent order of the world is ; and it is an unreasonable thing to argue from a thing when it is in its ...
... tion by . For fuppofing a production of the world , feveral things muft of neceffity be fuppofed in it dif- ferent from what the prefent order of the world is ; and it is an unreasonable thing to argue from a thing when it is in its ...
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