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 2University Press, 1836 - 542 pages |
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... bodies are shewed to spring from no other material principle than the particles of fluid matter : of which you may read a discourse of that ingenious and learned gentleman , Mr. Boyle , in his Sceptical Chymist . Only thus much may here ...
... bodies are shewed to spring from no other material principle than the particles of fluid matter : of which you may read a discourse of that ingenious and learned gentleman , Mr. Boyle , in his Sceptical Chymist . Only thus much may here ...
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... bodies are . All which arguments signify no more than this , that the world was not generated as plants or animals are ; and who ever , right in his wits , asserted that it was ? But do any of these arguments prove it impossible that ...
... bodies are . All which arguments signify no more than this , that the world was not generated as plants or animals are ; and who ever , right in his wits , asserted that it was ? But do any of these arguments prove it impossible that ...
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... bodies , ( it being better for them to enjoy themselves than not , ) they must be before they come into these bodies . Wherefore the preexistence of souls is a necessary result of the wisdom and good- ness of God , who can no more fail ...
... bodies , ( it being better for them to enjoy themselves than not , ) they must be before they come into these bodies . Wherefore the preexistence of souls is a necessary result of the wisdom and good- ness of God , who can no more fail ...
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... bodies of the universe were III . -framed into that order they now are in . Which is fully expressed by Dionysius in Eusebius , and very agreeably to the sense of Epicurus , in his Epistles to 1. xiv . c . 23. Herodotus and Pythocles ...
... bodies of the universe were III . -framed into that order they now are in . Which is fully expressed by Dionysius in Eusebius , and very agreeably to the sense of Epicurus , in his Epistles to 1. xiv . c . 23. Herodotus and Pythocles ...
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... bodies which we see ; so that all the account we are able to give , according to this hypothesis , of all the phenomena of the uni- verse , is from the fortuitous concourse of the atoms in the first forming of the world , and the ...
... bodies which we see ; so that all the account we are able to give , according to this hypothesis , of all the phenomena of the uni- verse , is from the fortuitous concourse of the atoms in the first forming of the world , and the ...
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