Origines Sacrae: Or, A Rational Account of the Grounds of Natural and Revealed Religion ... Together with a Letter to a Deist, Volume 2The University Press, 1836 - Apologetics |
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... speak far more agreeably to the true account of things , than such who only endeavoured by their own wits to im- prove or correct those principles which were delivered by the other philosophers ; which I impute not so much to their ...
... speak far more agreeably to the true account of things , than such who only endeavoured by their own wits to im- prove or correct those principles which were delivered by the other philosophers ; which I impute not so much to their ...
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... speaks in Diogenes Laer- tius , πρεσβύτατον τῶν ὄντων θεός · ἀγέννητον γάρ . κάλλιστον κόσμο ; ποίημα γὰρ θεοῦ . God is the eldest Being , because unbegotten ; the world the most beautiful , because it is God's workmanship . To which ...
... speaks in Diogenes Laer- tius , πρεσβύτατον τῶν ὄντων θεός · ἀγέννητον γάρ . κάλλιστον κόσμο ; ποίημα γὰρ θεοῦ . God is the eldest Being , because unbegotten ; the world the most beautiful , because it is God's workmanship . To which ...
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... speak of as the principle of the universe ; as Orpheus in Athenagoras , and the scho- liast on Apollonius , cited by Grotius and others . Which Grot . An- we have the more reason to believe , because the succes- de Ver . sors of Thales ...
... speak of as the principle of the universe ; as Orpheus in Athenagoras , and the scho- liast on Apollonius , cited by Grotius and others . Which Grot . An- we have the more reason to believe , because the succes- de Ver . sors of Thales ...
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... speaks in his Metaphysics , that the reason why Metaphys . Styx was made the oath of the gods , was because water was supposed to be the material principle of things ; which he saith was ἀρχαία τὶς αὕτη καὶ παλαιὰ περὶ τῆς φύσεως ἡ δόξα ...
... speaks in his Metaphysics , that the reason why Metaphys . Styx was made the oath of the gods , was because water was supposed to be the material principle of things ; which he saith was ἀρχαία τὶς αὕτη καὶ παλαιὰ περὶ τῆς φύσεως ἡ δόξα ...
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... 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 the same kind with ourselves , thus and thus formed ; and that while we are in the womb , we have a ...
... 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 the same kind with ourselves , thus and thus formed ; and that while we are in the womb , we have a ...
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Origines Sacrae; Or a Rational Account of the Grounds of Natural ..., Volume 1 Edward Stillingfleet No preview available - 2012 |
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