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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... sufficient prejudice against this opinion , that it was built on the same infirm conclusions which that of the eternity of the whole world was , viz . that maxim which Lipsius attributes to Democritus , but was embraced by all those ...
... sufficient prejudice against this opinion , that it was built on the same infirm conclusions which that of the eternity of the whole world was , viz . that maxim which Lipsius attributes to Democritus , but was embraced by all those ...
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... sufficient ground in reason for them ; and if they cannot give any sufficient ac- count of the phenomena of the world . I shall there- fore make it appear , that this hypothesis , as to the Nat . Deor . XII . III . BOOK origin of the ...
... sufficient ground in reason for them ; and if they cannot give any sufficient ac- count of the phenomena of the world . I shall there- fore make it appear , that this hypothesis , as to the Nat . Deor . XII . III . BOOK origin of the ...
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... sufficient grounds of reason ; secondly , that it cannot give any satisfactory account of the origin of things . 1. That it is a precarious hypothesis , and hath no evidence of reason on which it should be taken up ; and that will be ...
... sufficient grounds of reason ; secondly , that it cannot give any satisfactory account of the origin of things . 1. That it is a precarious hypothesis , and hath no evidence of reason on which it should be taken up ; and that will be ...
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... sufficient ; and that was , by proving that the bodies of the world are compounded of such insensible particles . Now granting the thing , I deny the consequence ; for what though the composition of bodies be from the contexture of ...
... sufficient ; and that was , by proving that the bodies of the world are compounded of such insensible particles . Now granting the thing , I deny the consequence ; for what though the composition of bodies be from the contexture of ...
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... sufficient account of their being indivisible . By this we see how far the atomists are from giving any ra- tional account of the origin of the motion of the atoms themselves without a Deity . 2. Supposing this motion to be granted them ...
... sufficient account of their being indivisible . By this we see how far the atomists are from giving any ra- tional account of the origin of the motion of the atoms themselves without a Deity . 2. Supposing this motion to be granted them ...
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