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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... opinions are built , which are so contrary to that account given of it in the very entrance of the books of Moses ... opinion to himself ; for when he inquires into the judgment of the philosophers who had wrote before him , he says ...
... opinions are built , which are so contrary to that account given of it in the very entrance of the books of Moses ... opinion to himself ; for when he inquires into the judgment of the philosophers who had wrote before him , he says ...
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... opinion ; for if the world had been eternal , how should it come to pass that the oldest phi- losophers should so readily and unanimously embrace that opinion which asserted the production of the world ? Was it not a strong presumption ...
... opinion ; for if the world had been eternal , how should it come to pass that the oldest phi- losophers should so readily and unanimously embrace that opinion which asserted the production of the world ? Was it not a strong presumption ...
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... opinion of Thales seems to have been part of CHAP . that universal tradition which was continued in the . world ... opinions out of the Scriptures , or have them conveyed to them in some secret cabala of the creation , as it is affirmed ...
... opinion of Thales seems to have been part of CHAP . that universal tradition which was continued in the . world ... opinions out of the Scriptures , or have them conveyed to them in some secret cabala of the creation , as it is affirmed ...
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... opinion , τοὺς παμπαλαίους , καὶ πολὺ πρὸ τῆς νῦν γενέσεως καὶ πρώτους θεολογήσαντας , that the most ancient and remote persons , and first writers of theo- logy , held this opinion of water being the first mate- rial principle of ...
... opinion , τοὺς παμπαλαίους , καὶ πολὺ πρὸ τῆς νῦν γενέσεως καὶ πρώτους θεολογήσαντας , that the most ancient and remote persons , and first writers of theo- logy , held this opinion of water being the first mate- rial principle of ...
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... opinions were accounted most pure , when they were so spherical as to pass up and down without interruption . From such a dege- neracy of philosophy as this we have now mentioned , arose the opinion of the eternity of the world ; for ...
... opinions were accounted most pure , when they were so spherical as to pass up and down without interruption . From such a dege- neracy of philosophy as this we have now mentioned , arose the opinion of the eternity of the world ; for ...
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