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 78
... saith he , the soul being of a more noble and immutable nature , while it is by itself , doth not partake of evil ; but it being of a nature apt to be joined with these terres- trial bodies , ( by the providence of the Author of the ...
... saith he , the soul being of a more noble and immutable nature , while it is by itself , doth not partake of evil ; but it being of a nature apt to be joined with these terres- trial bodies , ( by the providence of the Author of the ...
Page 82
... saith he , that no evil is in itself desirable , or to be chosen ; but withal , if this power of determining itself either way must be taken away , it must be either as something not good , or as some great evil ; and whoever saith so ...
... saith he , that no evil is in itself desirable , or to be chosen ; but withal , if this power of determining itself either way must be taken away , it must be either as something not good , or as some great evil ; and whoever saith so ...
Page 96
... ( saith he ) he else- where calls necessity , and in his de Legibus , plainly , ψυχὴν ἄτακτον καὶ κακοποίον , a disorderly and malignant soul ; which cannot be understood of mere matter , when he makes his hyle ἄμορφον καὶ ἀσχημάτιστον ...
... ( saith he ) he else- where calls necessity , and in his de Legibus , plainly , ψυχὴν ἄτακτον καὶ κακοποίον , a disorderly and malignant soul ; which cannot be understood of mere matter , when he makes his hyle ἄμορφον καὶ ἀσχημάτιστον ...
Page 103
... saith , that p . 1012 . what the Greeks received from the Barbarians , κάλλov τοῦτο εἰς τέλος ἀπεργάζονται , they put it into a better fashion , i . e . they disguise it , alter and change it as they please , and put it into a Greek ...
... saith , that p . 1012 . what the Greeks received from the Barbarians , κάλλov τοῦτο εἰς τέλος ἀπεργάζονται , they put it into a better fashion , i . e . they disguise it , alter and change it as they please , and put it into a Greek ...
Page 125
... saith Plutarch , in their punishments look at no- thing further than mere satisfying their revenge and malice , and that makes them pursue those that have offended them with so much rage and eagerness ; but God , saith he , aims at the ...
... saith Plutarch , in their punishments look at no- thing further than mere satisfying their revenge and malice , and that makes them pursue those that have offended them with so much rage and eagerness ; but God , saith he , aims at the ...
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