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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... motion and life is gone : how is it then possible for one of us , though never so little , to live and move in the womb for so many months , when it is so close , and shut up , and in the middle of the body ? If one of us , saith he ...
... motion and life is gone : how is it then possible for one of us , though never so little , to live and move in the womb for so many months , when it is so close , and shut up , and in the middle of the body ? If one of us , saith he ...
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... motion which are in the world ; which things are all capable of such a mu- tation : yet we see no such thing in the universe : from whence he infers that the universe was always , and will be , as it is . Upon the same principle doth ...
... motion which are in the world ; which things are all capable of such a mu- tation : yet we see no such thing in the universe : from whence he infers that the universe was always , and will be , as it is . Upon the same principle doth ...
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... motion in things , which we deny , since God , by his infinite power , may give motion to that which had it not before ; and so all that can be proved is the necessity of some first cause , which we assert , but no necessity at all of ...
... motion in things , which we deny , since God , by his infinite power , may give motion to that which had it not before ; and so all that can be proved is the necessity of some first cause , which we assert , but no necessity at all of ...
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... motion in the world , and that the origin of the uni- verse should be from no wiser principle than the casual concourse of these atoms , is one of the evidences of the proneness of men's minds to be intoxicated with those opinions they ...
... motion in the world , and that the origin of the uni- verse should be from no wiser principle than the casual concourse of these atoms , is one of the evidences of the proneness of men's minds to be intoxicated with those opinions they ...
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... motion : but though that be easily answered by principles different from those of Epicurus , and more rational , yet that very way of probation fails him in this present hypothesis . For what is there evident to sense which proves a ...
... motion : but though that be easily answered by principles different from those of Epicurus , and more rational , yet that very way of probation fails him in this present hypothesis . For what is there evident to sense which proves a ...
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