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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... never at reft , but in continual diforderly motion and agitation : which is a full explica- tion , I fuppofe , of what Thales meant by his water , which is the fame with that ixus , or mixture of mud and water together , which others ...
... never at reft , but in continual diforderly motion and agitation : which is a full explica- tion , I fuppofe , of what Thales meant by his water , which is the fame with that ixus , or mixture of mud and water together , which others ...
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... to affert that the world never had a beginning , nor would have an end , but always did , and would continue in the state they were in . This opinion , though Ari- ftotle III . BOOK ftotle feems to make all before him ORIGINES SACRÆ . 11.
... to affert that the world never had a beginning , nor would have an end , but always did , and would continue in the state they were in . This opinion , though Ari- ftotle III . BOOK ftotle feems to make all before him ORIGINES SACRÆ . 11.
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... never faw any female of either man or beast ; fuppofe now this perfon to enquire of the first man he speaks with , how men are born , and how they come into the world ? The other tells him , that every man is bred in the womb of one of ...
... never faw any female of either man or beast ; fuppofe now this perfon to enquire of the first man he speaks with , how men are born , and how they come into the world ? The other tells him , that every man is bred in the womb of one of ...
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... never fo little , to live and move in the womb for fo many months , when it is fo clofe , and fhut up , and in the middle of the body ? If one of us , faith he , should fwal- low a little bird , it would prefently die as foon as it came ...
... never fo little , to live and move in the womb for fo many months , when it is fo clofe , and fhut up , and in the middle of the body ? If one of us , faith he , should fwal- low a little bird , it would prefently die as foon as it came ...
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... never have power upon each other , or with- out themselves ; which is a far greater abfurdity than the mere afferting a power to produce fomething out of nothing , which is implied in the very notion of infinite power ; for if it be ...
... never have power upon each other , or with- out themselves ; which is a far greater abfurdity than the mere afferting a power to produce fomething out of nothing , which is implied in the very notion of infinite power ; for if it be ...
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afferted againſt Anaxagoras Anaximander ancient animals anſwer Ariftotle atoms becauſe befides bodies BOOK Cartes caufe cauſe Chalcidius Chrift Chriftian Cicero confider Dæmon defign deftroyed Democritus difcourfe Diodorus Siculus Divine doth earth Egyptians Epicurus eſpecially eternal evil exift exiſtence extenfion faid faith fame feems fenfe ferve feveral fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt fome foul fpeaks ftill ftrange fubftance fuch things fufficient fuppofe give God's goodneſs greateſt Greece Greeks hath himſelf hypothefis impoffible infinite itſelf Lucretius mankind matter mind Mofes moft moſt motion muft muſt nature neceffary neceffity obferved opinion paffage particles Pelafgi perfons Phaleg philofophers Plato Plutarch poffible prefent preferved principles puniſhment purpoſe Pythagoras queftion reafon reft religion Scriptures ſeems ſenſe ſeveral ſome ſpeak Strabo ſuppoſe teftimony thefe themſelves thence theſe things thofe thoſe tion truth underſtand univerfe unleſs uſe whofe worship δὲ καὶ τὴν τῆς τὸ τῶν