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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... tion , cabalistically understood , are fancies too extrava- gant and Pythagorean to be easily embraced . If Py- thagoras was circumcised , it was more for love of the Egyptians than the Jews , among whom he spent twenty - two years ; if ...
... tion , cabalistically understood , are fancies too extrava- gant and Pythagorean to be easily embraced . If Py- thagoras was circumcised , it was more for love of the Egyptians than the Jews , among whom he spent twenty - two years ; if ...
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... tion of watery mixtures , which they say was σropa C. 10 . κτίσεως , καὶ γένεσις τῶν ὅλων , the seed - plot of the creation , and the generation of things . Thus we see how Thales , with the Phoenicians , from whom he was derived , as ...
... tion of watery mixtures , which they say was σropa C. 10 . κτίσεως , καὶ γένεσις τῶν ὅλων , the seed - plot of the creation , and the generation of things . Thus we see how Thales , with the Phoenicians , from whom he was derived , as ...
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... tion , perfection . The other begins from better to worse , and from bigger to less ; and the conclusion of this is corruption and dissolution . But now , saith he , if the world had a beginning , there would be such a mu- tation in it ...
... tion , perfection . The other begins from better to worse , and from bigger to less ; and the conclusion of this is corruption and dissolution . But now , saith he , if the world had a beginning , there would be such a mu- tation in it ...
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... tion : but nobody hath ever observed such a mutation in the world , neither is there any appearance of it ; ἀλλ ̓ ἀεὶ κατὰ τ ̓ αὐτὸ καὶ ὡσαύτως διατελεῖ καὶ ἴσον ὅμοιον αὐτὸ EAUTOũ : but the world is semper idem ; it varies not , nor ...
... tion : but nobody hath ever observed such a mutation in the world , neither is there any appearance of it ; ἀλλ ̓ ἀεὶ κατὰ τ ̓ αὐτὸ καὶ ὡσαύτως διατελεῖ καὶ ἴσον ὅμοιον αὐτὸ EAUTOũ : but the world is semper idem ; it varies not , nor ...
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... tion , he proves it from Aristotle's own opinion , from the equal necessity of the existence of matter , as of Just . Mart . God . For , saith he , if God can produce any thing out of matter , which is as necessarily existent as him ...
... tion , he proves it from Aristotle's own opinion , from the equal necessity of the existence of matter , as of Just . Mart . God . For , saith he , if God can produce any thing out of matter , which is as necessarily existent as him ...
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