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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... suppose the world to have existed as it is from all eternity . 2. Such as attribute the formation of the world as it is to God ; but withal assert the preexistence and eternity of mat- ter . 3. Such as deny any eternity to the world ...
... suppose the world to have existed as it is from all eternity . 2. Such as attribute the formation of the world as it is to God ; but withal assert the preexistence and eternity of mat- ter . 3. Such as deny any eternity to the world ...
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... suppose Thales to flourish , ) the beginning of the world was no matter of dispute ; but , taking that for granted , the inquiry was , out of what material principle the universe was formed . Of which Thales Cicero de thus delivers his ...
... suppose Thales to flourish , ) the beginning of the world was no matter of dispute ; but , taking that for granted , the inquiry was , out of what material principle the universe was formed . Of which Thales Cicero de thus delivers his ...
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... suppose may be made evident to any con- siderative person , that those philosophers of Greece , who conversed most abroad in the world , did speak far more agreeably to the true account of things , than such who only endeavoured by ...
... suppose may be made evident to any con- siderative person , that those philosophers of Greece , who conversed most abroad in the world , did speak far more agreeably to the true account of things , than such who only endeavoured by ...
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... 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 of as the principle of the universe ; as Orpheus in Athenagoras , and the scho- liast on ...
... 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 of as the principle of the universe ; as Orpheus in Athenagoras , and the scho- liast on ...
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... suppose matter preexistent ; and from these short collections they form this universal maxim . And from hence , when they discoursed of the manner whereby God did produce the world , their imaginations ran presently upon that which the ...
... suppose matter preexistent ; and from these short collections they form this universal maxim . And from hence , when they discoursed of the manner whereby God did produce the world , their imaginations ran presently upon that which the ...
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