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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... evident to any con- siderative person , that those philosophers of Greece , who conversed most abroad in the world , did speak far more agreeably to the true account of things , than such who only endeavoured by their own wits to im ...
... evident to any con- siderative person , that those philosophers of Greece , who conversed most abroad in the world , did speak far more agreeably to the true account of things , than such who only endeavoured by their own wits to im ...
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... evident from the ground of Aristotle's condemning the opinion of Empedocles ; who asserted the production of the world , and yet the incorruptibility of it : Tò μèv ovv ye- νέσθαι μὲν , ἀΐδιον δ ̓ ὅμως εἶναι φάναι , τῶν ἀδυνάτων , which ...
... evident from the ground of Aristotle's condemning the opinion of Empedocles ; who asserted the production of the world , and yet the incorruptibility of it : Tò μèv ovv ye- νέσθαι μὲν , ἀΐδιον δ ̓ ὅμως εἶναι φάναι , τῶν ἀδυνάτων , which ...
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... evident , that not only Jews and Christians , but even the heathens themselves , Galen . de understood Moses , as is plain by Galen , where he com- pares the opinion of Moses with that of Epicurus , and ingenuously confesseth that of ...
... evident , that not only Jews and Christians , but even the heathens themselves , Galen . de understood Moses , as is plain by Galen , where he com- pares the opinion of Moses with that of Epicurus , and ingenuously confesseth that of ...
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... evident by Numenius , that he looked on the undetermined and confused matter to have been coeval with God himself , and not produced by him . And if Numenius be as much to be credited in this , as when he calls Plato Moses Atticus ...
... evident by Numenius , that he looked on the undetermined and confused matter to have been coeval with God himself , and not produced by him . And if Numenius be as much to be credited in this , as when he calls Plato Moses Atticus ...
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... evident that it was not so much the truth , as the ser- viceableness of this hypothesis , which hath given it entertainment among men of atheistical spirits . Epi- curus himself , in his Epistle to Pythocles , urgeth that as a ...
... evident that it was not so much the truth , as the ser- viceableness of this hypothesis , which hath given it entertainment among men of atheistical spirits . Epi- curus himself , in his Epistle to Pythocles , urgeth that as a ...
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