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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... means of preserving some monuments and general re- ports of the first ages of the world , when the Grecians wanted them : and therefore we find that Greece , from its beginning , shined with a borrowed light ; and saw not by an ...
... means of preserving some monuments and general re- ports of the first ages of the world , when the Grecians wanted them : and therefore we find that Greece , from its beginning , shined with a borrowed light ; and saw not by an ...
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... means of his great industry and converse with the learned nations , might attain to far greater knowledge of many mysterious things in natural philosophy , and as to the origin of the universe , than any of the home- bred philosophers ...
... means of his great industry and converse with the learned nations , might attain to far greater knowledge of many mysterious things in natural philosophy , and as to the origin of the universe , than any of the home- bred philosophers ...
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... means of this liti- gious humour , philosophy , from being a design , grew to be a mere art ; and he was accounted the best phi- losopher , not that searched further into the bowels of nature , but that dressed and tricked up the ...
... means of this liti- gious humour , philosophy , from being a design , grew to be a mere art ; and he was accounted the best phi- losopher , not that searched further into the bowels of nature , but that dressed and tricked up the ...
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... means we must condemn many things for falsities which are apparently true , and believe many others to be true which are appa- rently false . For which Maimonides useth an excel- Maimon . lent similitude . Suppose , saith he , one of ...
... means we must condemn many things for falsities which are apparently true , and believe many others to be true which are appa- rently false . For which Maimonides useth an excel- Maimon . lent similitude . Suppose , saith he , one of ...
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... means in order to it , ( which on that account are written with all imaginable perspicuity in Scripture , ) and the mo- ment of all other controversies be judged by their re- ference to these , there would be fewer controversies and ...
... means in order to it , ( which on that account are written with all imaginable perspicuity in Scripture , ) and the mo- ment of all other controversies be judged by their re- ference to these , there would be fewer controversies and ...
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