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 2 |
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... especially when the humour of innovating in philosophy was got among them ; and they thought they did nothing unless they contradicted their masters : thence came that multiplicity of sects presently among them ; and that philosophy ...
... especially when the humour of innovating in philosophy was got among them ; and they thought they did nothing unless they contradicted their masters : thence came that multiplicity of sects presently among them ; and that philosophy ...
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... an academical way as to either of these opinions , the Hospes Eleatensis , who there acts the part of the philosopher , tells him , if he thought he were inclinable to the other opinion , νύν αν τώ λόγω μετά πειθούς αναγκαίας IU .
... an academical way as to either of these opinions , the Hospes Eleatensis , who there acts the part of the philosopher , tells him , if he thought he were inclinable to the other opinion , νύν αν τώ λόγω μετά πειθούς αναγκαίας IU .
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But however these Pythagoreans might be deceived , who thought the Unity itself became the Deity , yet it is evident by Numenius , that he looked on the undetermined and confused matter to have been coeval with God himself , and not ...
But however these Pythagoreans might be deceived , who thought the Unity itself became the Deity , yet it is evident by Numenius , that he looked on the undetermined and confused matter to have been coeval with God himself , and not ...
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So that though we conceive something superior , we must imagine nothing supreme ; and so on the conGassend . trary . Whereby it is evident , as Gassendus confesseth , Physic . that Epicurus thought the surface of the earth to be a 1.
So that though we conceive something superior , we must imagine nothing supreme ; and so on the conGassend . trary . Whereby it is evident , as Gassendus confesseth , Physic . that Epicurus thought the surface of the earth to be a 1.
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But because Lucretius may be thought to speak more impartially in the case , how rarely doth he describe it ! Crescebant uteri terræ radicibus apti ; Quos ubi tempore maturo patefecerat ætas Infantum fugiens humorem , aurasque petissens ...
But because Lucretius may be thought to speak more impartially in the case , how rarely doth he describe it ! Crescebant uteri terræ radicibus apti ; Quos ubi tempore maturo patefecerat ætas Infantum fugiens humorem , aurasque petissens ...
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