Origines Sacrae: Or a Rational Account of the Grounds of Natural and Revealed Religion ... Together with a Letter to a Deist, Volume 2Clarendon Press, 1797 - Apologetics |
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... near to that which we have the greatest reason to believe to have been the most certain account of the origin of the world . Cicero de Nat . Deor . 1. i . c . 25 . For II . this opinion of Thales feems to have been this + SACRE . ORIGINES.
... near to that which we have the greatest reason to believe to have been the most certain account of the origin of the world . Cicero de Nat . Deor . 1. i . c . 25 . For II . this opinion of Thales feems to have been this + SACRE . ORIGINES.
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... believe that the world had a beginning , and was corruptible ; that it was fpherical , and the ftars were of the nature of fire ; that the foul was of an immortal nature , and did pass up and down the world : which Laertius cites from ...
... believe that the world had a beginning , and was corruptible ; that it was fpherical , and the ftars were of the nature of fire ; that the foul was of an immortal nature , and did pass up and down the world : which Laertius cites from ...
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... believe many others to be true which are apparently falfe . For which Maimonides ufeth an excellent fimilitude . Suppofe , Maimon . faith he , one of exquifite natural parts , whofe mother dies 1. ii . c . 17 . as foon he is born , and ...
... believe many others to be true which are apparently falfe . For which Maimonides ufeth an excellent fimilitude . Suppofe , Maimon . faith he , one of exquifite natural parts , whofe mother dies 1. ii . c . 17 . as foon he is born , and ...
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... believe at leaft the fouls of men eternal , if not the universe ? But how reconcileable the eternity of the world is to the Pythagoric cabala of the crea- tion , I am yet to understand . But if this argument doth not at all infer the ...
... believe at leaft the fouls of men eternal , if not the universe ? But how reconcileable the eternity of the world is to the Pythagoric cabala of the crea- tion , I am yet to understand . But if this argument doth not at all infer the ...
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... believe a chaos to have gone be- fore the bringing the world into the order it is now in . And in that sense may those places in Plutarch be interpreted , ε γὰρ ἐκ τοῦ μὴ ὄντῷ ἡ γένεσις , αλλ ̓ ἐκ τῶ μὴ καλῶς καὶ ἱκανῶς ἔχοντ © · and fo ...
... believe a chaos to have gone be- fore the bringing the world into the order it is now in . And in that sense may those places in Plutarch be interpreted , ε γὰρ ἐκ τοῦ μὴ ὄντῷ ἡ γένεσις , αλλ ̓ ἐκ τῶ μὴ καλῶς καὶ ἱκανῶς ἔχοντ © · and fo ...
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