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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... grounds this prin- ciple was took up by these philosophers , we have no reason to admit of it as an universal standard of na- ture . For we find by these naturalists , who thus as- serted this principle , that when they go about to ...
... grounds this prin- ciple was took up by these philosophers , we have no reason to admit of it as an universal standard of na- ture . For we find by these naturalists , who thus as- serted this principle , that when they go about to ...
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... grounds the philosophers proceeded , and from what they took them , and how insufficient any collections from the present order of the universe are to determine any thing concerning its production by . For supposing a production of the ...
... grounds the philosophers proceeded , and from what they took them , and how insufficient any collections from the present order of the universe are to determine any thing concerning its production by . For supposing a production of the ...
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... ground , I be not likewise bound to believe at least the souls of men eternal , if not the universe ? But how reconcilable the eternity of the world is to the Pythagoric cabala of the crea- tion , I am yet to understand . But if this ...
... ground , I be not likewise bound to believe at least the souls of men eternal , if not the universe ? But how reconcilable the eternity of the world is to the Pythagoric cabala of the crea- tion , I am yet to understand . But if this ...
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... ground ; on which account we are obliged more particularly to consider the reason of it . The hypothesis then of Epicurus is , that before the world was brought into that form and order it is now in , there was an infinite empty space ...
... ground ; on which account we are obliged more particularly to consider the reason of it . The hypothesis then of Epicurus is , that before the world was brought into that form and order it is now in , there was an infinite empty space ...
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... ground in reason for them ; and if they cannot give any sufficient ac- count of the phenomena of the world . I shall there- fore make it appear , that this hypothesis , as to the Nat . Deor . XII . III . BOOK origin of the universe , is ...
... ground in reason for them ; and if they cannot give any sufficient ac- count of the phenomena of the world . I shall there- fore make it appear , that this hypothesis , as to the Nat . Deor . XII . III . BOOK origin of the universe , is ...
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