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... occasion of this discourse , and the proposition , • · 113 113 SECT . II . Of the origin of civil society ; the causes of its defective plan : that this defect can be only supplied by religion : that religion , under the present ...
... occasion of this discourse , and the proposition , • · 113 113 SECT . II . Of the origin of civil society ; the causes of its defective plan : that this defect can be only supplied by religion : that religion , under the present ...
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... occasion , and end , and substance of which work cannot be expressed in fewer , or clearer terms than his own . After a short historical view of religious parties in England , from the Reformation downwards ; of the discordant notions ...
... occasion , and end , and substance of which work cannot be expressed in fewer , or clearer terms than his own . After a short historical view of religious parties in England , from the Reformation downwards ; of the discordant notions ...
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... occasion to suspect him of a leaning towards infidelity . Mr Warburton was personally acquainted with him , and had a real esteem for him . He wished therefore , if possible , to draw his friend off from that bias , which his passions ...
... occasion to suspect him of a leaning towards infidelity . Mr Warburton was personally acquainted with him , and had a real esteem for him . He wished therefore , if possible , to draw his friend off from that bias , which his passions ...
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... occasion to acquaint Dr Middleton with the manner in which he meant to address the freethinkers , in his dedication to them , prefixed to the first volume of the ' Divine Legation , ' and with his purpose of making respectful mention of ...
... occasion to acquaint Dr Middleton with the manner in which he meant to address the freethinkers , in his dedication to them , prefixed to the first volume of the ' Divine Legation , ' and with his purpose of making respectful mention of ...
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... occasion they gave him of justifying an obnoxious friend , as well as explaining his own sentiments . I must now go back a little , to mention a circumstance in his life , which does the parties concerned too much honour to be omitted ...
... occasion they gave him of justifying an obnoxious friend , as well as explaining his own sentiments . I must now go back a little , to mention a circumstance in his life , which does the parties concerned too much honour to be omitted ...
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Page 341 - That Wisdom infinite must form the best, Where all must full or not coherent be, And all that rises, rise in due degree ; Then, in the scale of reasoning life, 'tis plain, There must be, somewhere, such a rank as Man: And all the question (wrangle e'er so long) Is only this, if God has placed him wrong?
Page 429 - Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. 32 IT And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.
Page 629 - ... true eloquence I find to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth; and that whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words, by what I can express, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command, and in well-ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places.
Page 429 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20. For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21. (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.) 22.
Page 411 - Who changed the Truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, Who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Page 392 - Stand by thyself, come not near me, for I am holier than thou.
Page 411 - Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves...
Page 313 - Nilotici calami inscriptam non spreveris inspicere. figuras fortunasque hominum in alias imagines conversas et in se rursum mutuo nexu refectas, ut mireris, exordior.
Page 511 - Nam Pythagoras, qui censuit animum esse per naturam rerum omnem intentum et commeantem ex quo nostri animi carperentur, non vidit distractione humanorum animorum discerpi et lacerari deum, et cum miseri animi essent, quod plerisque contingeret, turn dei partem esse miseram, 28 quod fieri non potest.