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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... hath nothing else to do in the world but to set the great wheel of the heavens going . So much is it our con- cernment to inquire into the true original of the world , and on what evidence of reason those opinions are built , which are ...
... hath nothing else to do in the world but to set the great wheel of the heavens going . So much is it our con- cernment to inquire into the true original of the world , and on what evidence of reason those opinions are built , which are ...
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... hath not been a little beholden , as Ludov . Nogarola hath in part manifested in his notes on Ocellus ; although Aristotle had not the ingenuity of Pliny , agnoscere per quos profecerit . From Ari- stotle this opinion , together with ...
... hath not been a little beholden , as Ludov . Nogarola hath in part manifested in his notes on Ocellus ; although Aristotle had not the ingenuity of Pliny , agnoscere per quos profecerit . From Ari- stotle this opinion , together with ...
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... hath been so taken for granted , that it hath been looked on as a common notion of human nature , viz . ex nihilo nihil fit , which was the main argument used Vid . Laert . by them to prove the eternity of the world , and by mocriti ...
... hath been so taken for granted , that it hath been looked on as a common notion of human nature , viz . ex nihilo nihil fit , which was the main argument used Vid . Laert . by them to prove the eternity of the world , and by mocriti ...
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... hath two ob- servable mutations in it : the one is whereby it grows from less to greater , and from worse to better ; and this is called generation , and the height of this muta- tion , perfection . The other begins from better to worse ...
... hath two ob- servable mutations in it : the one is whereby it grows from less to greater , and from worse to better ; and this is called generation , and the height of this muta- tion , perfection . The other begins from better to worse ...
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... hath ever observed such a mutation in the world , neither is there any appearance of it ; ἀλλ ̓ ἀεὶ κατὰ τ ̓ αὐτὸ καὶ ὡσαύτως διατελεῖ καὶ ἴσον ὅμοιον αὐτὸ EAUTOũ : but the world is semper idem ; it varies not , nor alters any thing ...
... hath ever observed such a mutation in the world , neither is there any appearance of it ; ἀλλ ̓ ἀεὶ κατὰ τ ̓ αὐτὸ καὶ ὡσαύτως διατελεῖ καὶ ἴσον ὅμοιον αὐτὸ EAUTOũ : but the world is semper idem ; it varies not , nor alters any thing ...
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