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 2 |
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For which we have this evident reason , that Greece was far more barbarous and rude in its elder times , than those other nations were , which had means of preserving some monuments and general reports of the first ages of the world ...
For which we have this evident reason , that Greece was far more barbarous and rude in its elder times , than those other nations were , which had means of preserving some monuments and general reports of the first ages of the world ...
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Philo of Alexandria , began first to exercise his wit on the text of Moses , with Platonic notions ; yet I shall easily grant that Pythagoras , by means of his great industry and converse with the learned nations , might attain to far ...
Philo of Alexandria , began first to exercise his wit on the text of Moses , with Platonic notions ; yet I shall easily grant that Pythagoras , by means of his great industry and converse with the learned nations , might attain to far ...
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BOOK wranglings with each other ; but by means of this liti-gious humour , philosophy , from being a design , grew to be a mere art ; and he was accounted the best philosopher , not that searched further into the bowels of nature ...
BOOK wranglings with each other ; but by means of this liti-gious humour , philosophy , from being a design , grew to be a mere art ; and he was accounted the best philosopher , not that searched further into the bowels of nature ...
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And could men but rest contented with those things which concern their eternal happiness , and the means in order to it , ( which on that account are written with all imaginable perspicuity in Scripture , ) and the moment of all other ...
And could men but rest contented with those things which concern their eternal happiness , and the means in order to it , ( which on that account are written with all imaginable perspicuity in Scripture , ) and the moment of all other ...
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The reason was , as corruption increased in the world , so the means of instruction and knowledge decayed ; and so as the phenomena grew greater , the reason of them was less understood ; the knowledge of the history of the first ages ...
The reason was , as corruption increased in the world , so the means of instruction and knowledge decayed ; and so as the phenomena grew greater , the reason of them was less understood ; the knowledge of the history of the first ages ...
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| Title | 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 2 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, Edward Stillingfleet |
| Author | Edward Stillingfleet |
| Publisher | University Press, 1836 |
| Original from | the Bavarian State Library |
| Digitized | 17 Dec 2009 |
| Length | 542 pages |
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