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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... never at rest , but in continual disorderly motion and agitation : which is a full explication , I suppose , of what Thales meant by his water , which is the same with that iùs , or mixture of mud and water together , which others speak ...
... never at rest , but in continual disorderly motion and agitation : which is a full explication , I suppose , of what Thales meant by his water , which is the same with that iùs , or mixture of mud and water together , which others speak ...
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... never had a begin- ning , nor would have an end , but always did , and would continue in the state they were in . This opinion , though Aristotle seems to make all before him to be of another mind , yet was hatched , as far as we can ...
... never had a begin- ning , nor would have an end , but always did , and would continue in the state they were in . This opinion , though Aristotle seems to make all before him to be of another mind , yet was hatched , as far as we can ...
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... never saw any female of either man or beast ; suppose now this person to inquire of the first man he speaks with , how men are born , and how they come into the world ? The other tells him , that every man is bred in the womb of one of ...
... never saw any female of either man or beast ; suppose now this person to inquire of the first man he speaks with , how men are born , and how they come into the world ? The other tells him , that every man is bred in the womb of one of ...
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... never so little , to live and move in the womb for so many months , when it is so close , and shut up , and in the middle of the body ? If one of us , saith he , should swallow a little bird , it would presently die as soon as it came ...
... never so little , to live and move in the womb for so many months , when it is so close , and shut up , and in the middle of the body ? If one of us , saith he , should swallow a little bird , it would presently die as soon as it came ...
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... if God and matter have it both , they can never have power upon each other , or without themselves ; which is a far greater absurdity than the mere asserting a Ep . II . power to produce something out of nothing , 20 ORIGINES SACRE .
... if God and matter have it both , they can never have power upon each other , or without themselves ; which is a far greater absurdity than the mere asserting a Ep . II . power to produce something out of nothing , 20 ORIGINES SACRE .
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