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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... most abroad in the world , did fpeak far more agreeably to the true account of things , than fuch who only endeavoured by their own wits to improve or correct those principles which were delivered by the other philofophers ; which I ...
... most abroad in the world , did fpeak far more agreeably to the true account of things , than fuch who only endeavoured by their own wits to improve or correct those principles which were delivered by the other philofophers ; which I ...
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... most of the opinions of Pythagoras , and whence he derived them , without forcing the words of Mofes into fuch a fenfe , which the plainness and perfpicuity of the writings of Mofes argue them not capable to admit of . But I will not ...
... most of the opinions of Pythagoras , and whence he derived them , without forcing the words of Mofes into fuch a fenfe , which the plainness and perfpicuity of the writings of Mofes argue them not capable to admit of . But I will not ...
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... most beautiful , because it is God's workmanship . To which thofe expreffions of Plato , in his Timæus , come very near ( whose phi- lofophy was , for fubftance , the fame with the Pytha- Ed . Ficini . gorean ) , when he had before ...
... most beautiful , because it is God's workmanship . To which thofe expreffions of Plato , in his Timæus , come very near ( whose phi- lofophy was , for fubftance , the fame with the Pytha- Ed . Ficini . gorean ) , when he had before ...
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... most plaufible , not which were moft true , but which were moft defenfible , and which , like Des Cartes's fecond Element , had all the angles cut off , on which their adverfaries might have an advantage of juftling upon them ; and then ...
... most plaufible , not which were moft true , but which were moft defenfible , and which , like Des Cartes's fecond Element , had all the angles cut off , on which their adverfaries might have an advantage of juftling upon them ; and then ...
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... most evident that it was not fo much the truth , as the ferviceablenefs of this hypothefis , which hath given it entertainment among men of atheistical spi- rits . Epicurus himself , in his Epistle to Pythocles , urgeth that as a ...
... most evident that it was not fo much the truth , as the ferviceablenefs of this hypothefis , which hath given it entertainment among men of atheistical spi- rits . Epicurus himself , in his Epistle to Pythocles , urgeth that as a ...
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