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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... observations . The former is to me far the more probable on many accounts , but chiefly on this ; that the first principles of the two founders of the chief sects of philosophers , viz . the Ionic and Italic , ( for all the other were ...
... observations . The former is to me far the more probable on many accounts , but chiefly on this ; that the first principles of the two founders of the chief sects of philosophers , viz . the Ionic and Italic , ( for all the other were ...
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... observation of things as they are at present in the world . Which is 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 ...
... observation of things as they are at present in the world . Which is 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 ...
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... observe upon what grounds this prin- ciple was took up by these philosophers , we have no reason to admit of it as an universal standard of na- ture . For we find by these naturalists , who thus as- serted this principle , that when ...
... observe upon what grounds this prin- ciple was took up by these philosophers , we have no reason to admit of it as an universal standard of na- ture . For we find by these naturalists , who thus as- serted this principle , that when ...
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... observed such a mutation in the world , neither is there any appearance of it ; ἀλλ ̓ ἀεὶ κατὰ τ ̓ αὐτὸ καὶ ὡσαύτως ... observe in the world ? For we assert an infinite and eternal Being , which was the efficient cause of the world , who ...
... observed such a mutation in the world , neither is there any appearance of it ; ἀλλ ̓ ἀεὶ κατὰ τ ̓ αὐτὸ καὶ ὡσαύτως ... observe in the world ? For we assert an infinite and eternal Being , which was the efficient cause of the world , who ...
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... observe the laws of demonstration ; but in- stead of them , proceeded only upon opinions and con- jectures . And as to this particular of the possibility of another way of production , besides that of genera- tion , he proves it from ...
... observe the laws of demonstration ; but in- stead of them , proceeded only upon opinions and con- jectures . And as to this particular of the possibility of another way of production , besides that of genera- tion , he proves it from ...
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