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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... common opinion propounded and re- jected . The Hellens were not the first inhabitants of Greece , but the Pelasgi . The large spread of them over the parts of Greece . XII . Of their language different from the Greeks . XIII . Whence ...
... common opinion propounded and re- jected . The Hellens were not the first inhabitants of Greece , but the Pelasgi . The large spread of them over the parts of Greece . XII . Of their language different from the Greeks . XIII . Whence ...
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... common bank , so that there could be no certain and convictive evidence given to a shuffling philosopher that things were ever otherwise than they are ; they found it most defensible to assert that the world never had a begin- ning ...
... common bank , so that there could be no certain and convictive evidence given to a shuffling philosopher that things were ever otherwise than they are ; they found it most defensible to assert that the world never had a begin- ning ...
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... common notion of human nature , viz . ex nihilo nihil fit , which was the main argument used Vid . Laert . by them to prove the eternity of the world , and by mocriti . others , to prove the preexistence of matter . So Ocel- lus argues ...
... common notion of human nature , viz . ex nihilo nihil fit , which was the main argument used Vid . Laert . by them to prove the eternity of the world , and by mocriti . others , to prove the preexistence of matter . So Ocel- lus argues ...
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... common affections of matter , size , figure , motion , & c . he undertakes to give an account of the phenomena of the world . How far his principles do conduce to the giving men's minds satisfaction as to the particular phenomena of ...
... common affections of matter , size , figure , motion , & c . he undertakes to give an account of the phenomena of the world . How far his principles do conduce to the giving men's minds satisfaction as to the particular phenomena of ...
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... common phenomena of the world , have called in the help of a spirit of nature , which may serve instead of a man - midwife to matter , to help her in her production of things : or , as though God had a plurality of worlds to look after ...
... common phenomena of the world , have called in the help of a spirit of nature , which may serve instead of a man - midwife to matter , to help her in her production of things : or , as though God had a plurality of worlds to look after ...
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Anaxagoras Anaximander ancient animals appears argument Aristotle asserted atheistical atoms bodies BOOK called Cartes cause Chalcidius CHAP Christian Cicero concerning consider creatures Deity Democritus Diodorus Diodorus Siculus discourse Divine doctrine doth earth Egypt Egyptians Epicurean Epicurus eternal Euhemerus evident flood give an account God's gods Greece Greeks ground hath heathen heaven Herodotus Hierocles hypothesis imagine infinite Jews language laws lived Lucretius mankind manner matter men's mind Moses motion nations nature Noah observed opinion origin of evil particles Pelasgi persons Phaleg philosophers Phoenicians Plato Plutarch posterity preserved pretend principle produced prove Providence punishment Pythagoras reason religion saith Scriptures sect sense shew Socrates soul speaks STILLINGFLEET Strabo substance suppose tells testimony Thales thence things thought tion true truth ture understand universe Vossius whence wherein wisdom worship γὰρ δὲ ἐν καὶ τὰ τε τὴν τῆς τὸ τὸν τοῦ τῶν