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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... preserved in the several nations after the dispersion . II . How it came to be corrupted : by decay of knowledge , increase of idolatry , confusion of languages . III . An inquiry into the cause of that . Difficulties against the common ...
... preserved in the several nations after the dispersion . II . How it came to be corrupted : by decay of knowledge , increase of idolatry , confusion of languages . III . An inquiry into the cause of that . Difficulties against the common ...
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... preserved far better among the Phœni- cians , Egyptians , Chaldeans , and others , than among the Greeks . For which ... preserving some monuments and general re- ports of the first ages of the world , when the Grecians wanted them : and ...
... preserved far better among the Phœni- cians , Egyptians , Chaldeans , and others , than among the Greeks . For which ... preserving some monuments and general re- ports of the first ages of the world , when the Grecians wanted them : and ...
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... preserved among the elder and more knowing nations and al- though the nations they resorted to sought to advance their own reputation in the histories of their ancient times , of which we have already given a large account , yet they ...
... preserved among the elder and more knowing nations and al- though the nations they resorted to sought to advance their own reputation in the histories of their ancient times , of which we have already given a large account , yet they ...
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... senses , and men have it only Epicuri . one of these four ways . 1. By incursion , as the species c . 7. can . 7 . Nat . Deor . V.Gassend . de Logica Op . tom . i . III . BOOK of a man is preserved by the D 4 ORIGINES SACRÆ . 39.
... senses , and men have it only Epicuri . one of these four ways . 1. By incursion , as the species c . 7. can . 7 . Nat . Deor . V.Gassend . de Logica Op . tom . i . III . BOOK of a man is preserved by the D 4 ORIGINES SACRÆ . 39.
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... preserved by the sight of him . 2. By pro- portion , as we can enlarge or contract that species of a man either into a giant or pigmy . 3. By similitude , as we may fancy the image of a city by resemblance to one which we have seen . 4 ...
... preserved by the sight of him . 2. By pro- portion , as we can enlarge or contract that species of a man either into a giant or pigmy . 3. By similitude , as we may fancy the image of a city by resemblance to one which we have seen . 4 ...
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