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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... 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 so contrary to that account given of it in the very entrance 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 so contrary to that account given of it in the very entrance of the ...
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... heavens , that they are not capable of ge- neration and corruption as other 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 ...
... heavens , that they are not capable of ge- neration and corruption as other 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 ...
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... heavens and earth ; for , saith he , the heavens , which are called the firmament , were created after ; and on the third day , when the waters were separated , the dry land appeared , which was called earth . Qui tumultuario contenti ...
... heavens and earth ; for , saith he , the heavens , which are called the firmament , were created after ; and on the third day , when the waters were separated , the dry land appeared , which was called earth . Qui tumultuario contenti ...
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... heavens , and so to all that immense space of the universe ; so that all those heavy bodies which should fall downwards in any parts of the widest distance on the earth , as in Europe , Asia , and Africa , would never meet ( if they ...
... heavens , and so to all that immense space of the universe ; so that all those heavy bodies which should fall downwards in any parts of the widest distance on the earth , as in Europe , Asia , and Africa , would never meet ( if they ...
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... heavens , thence he supposes that those triangular particles come to be wreathed . Now , from these things being thus supposed , Des Cartes hath ingenuously , and consonantly to his principles , under- taken to give an account of the ...
... heavens , thence he supposes that those triangular particles come to be wreathed . Now , from these things being thus supposed , Des Cartes hath ingenuously , and consonantly to his principles , under- taken to give an account of the ...
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