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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Page 31
... denied production of matter , μηδὲν ἐκ τοῦ μὴ ὄντος γίνεσθαι , μηδὲ εἰς τὸ μὴ ὂν φθείρεσθαι , that nothing could be produced out of nothing , nor could return into nothing ; which , as we have already said , was only taken up from the ...
... denied production of matter , μηδὲν ἐκ τοῦ μὴ ὄντος γίνεσθαι , μηδὲ εἰς τὸ μὴ ὂν φθείρεσθαι , that nothing could be produced out of nothing , nor could return into nothing ; which , as we have already said , was only taken up from the ...
Page 40
... deny the consequence ; for what though the composition of bodies be from the contexture of atoms , doth it therefore follow that these particles did casually produce these bodies ? Nay , doth it at all follow , that because bodies upon ...
... deny the consequence ; for what though the composition of bodies be from the contexture of atoms , doth it therefore follow that these particles did casually produce these bodies ? Nay , doth it at all follow , that because bodies upon ...
Page 51
... deny that his atoms , with all their occursions , would ever produce those things which are in the universe . run through the noted phenomena of the universe , and To III . BOOK to shew how insufficient an account the E 2 ORIGINES SACRE ...
... deny that his atoms , with all their occursions , would ever produce those things which are in the universe . run through the noted phenomena of the universe , and To III . BOOK to shew how insufficient an account the E 2 ORIGINES SACRE ...
Page 63
... assert a Deity , and deny Providence ; and in nothing did Epicurus more discover the weakness and puerility of his judgment than in this . Indeed , CHAP . III . I. III . BOOK if Epicurus had no other design in ORIGINES SACREÆ . 63.
... assert a Deity , and deny Providence ; and in nothing did Epicurus more discover the weakness and puerility of his judgment than in this . Indeed , CHAP . III . I. III . BOOK if Epicurus had no other design in ORIGINES SACREÆ . 63.
Page 67
... or there must be none ; and truly he might more suitably to his principles question his ex- istence , than supposing his existence deny his Provi- III . BOOK dence on such miserable accounts as these F 2 ORIGINES SACRÆ . 67.
... or there must be none ; and truly he might more suitably to his principles question his ex- istence , than supposing his existence deny his Provi- III . BOOK dence on such miserable accounts as these F 2 ORIGINES SACRÆ . 67.
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