The Works of Lord Bolingbroke: With a Life, Prepared Expressly for this Edition, Containing Additional Information Relative to His Personal and Public Character, Tom 3Carey and Hart, 1841 |
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... serve to show how ridiculous it is , whilst we receive on the faith of uni- versal tradition this fact , " the world had a beginning , " to go about to fix the era of it according to those of any particular nations . The negative ...
... serve to show how ridiculous it is , whilst we receive on the faith of uni- versal tradition this fact , " the world had a beginning , " to go about to fix the era of it according to those of any particular nations . The negative ...
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... serve to defend us against the inclemency of the air and the rigor of the seasons , by making clothes and building houses sufficient for this purpose ? These arts must have their place , surely , among those which Tillotson reckons so ...
... serve to defend us against the inclemency of the air and the rigor of the seasons , by making clothes and building houses sufficient for this purpose ? These arts must have their place , surely , among those which Tillotson reckons so ...
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... serve to vouch for one another in the manner they must do to become such collateral testimonies as are required ... serve to prove the authenticity of those histories , which the monk of Viterbo endeavored to impose on the world under ...
... serve to vouch for one another in the manner they must do to become such collateral testimonies as are required ... serve to prove the authenticity of those histories , which the monk of Viterbo endeavored to impose on the world under ...
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... served to commemorate the departure of the Israelites out of Egypt , and their transmigration into Palestine . But will they serve likewise to commemorate all the incredible circumstances which had been added to the tradition of a very ...
... served to commemorate the departure of the Israelites out of Egypt , and their transmigration into Palestine . But will they serve likewise to commemorate all the incredible circumstances which had been added to the tradition of a very ...
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... serve in time ; and by consequence , whether we re- gard the Jewish economy alone , or that of Judaism and Chris- tianity together , the whole system of law , history , and prophecy , must be exactly proportioned , as the means to all ...
... serve in time ; and by consequence , whether we re- gard the Jewish economy alone , or that of Judaism and Chris- tianity together , the whole system of law , history , and prophecy , must be exactly proportioned , as the means to all ...
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Strona 335 - Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things, ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Strona 28 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, So that I come again to my father's house in peace ; then shall the Lord be my God : and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house : and of all that thou shalt give me, I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Strona 431 - But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God . 4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.
Strona 126 - For example, does it not require some pains and skill to form the general idea of a triangle ? (which is yet none of the most abstract comprehensive and difficult) ; for it must be neither oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon, but all and none of these at once.
Strona 174 - ... years continued us in such a state, can and will restore us to the like state of sensibility in another world, and make us capable there to receive the retribution he has designed to men according to their doings in this life.
Strona 463 - In principio erat Verbum et Verbum erat apud Deum ; et Deus erat Verbum : hoc erat in principio apud Deum.
Strona 51 - Rather than creep up slowly, a posteriori, to a little general knowledge, they soar at once as far and as high as imagination can carry them. From thence they descend again, armed with systems and arguments a priori; and, regardless how these agree or clash with the phenomena of Nature, they impose them on mankind.
Strona 184 - That he should be in earnest it is hard to conceive ; since any reasons of doubt •which he might have in this case would have been reasons of doubt in the case of other men, who may give more, but cannot give more evident, signs...
Strona 174 - ... since we know not wherein thinking consists, nor to what sort of substances the Almighty has been pleased to give that power, which cannot be in any created being, but merely by the good pleasure and bounty of the Creator. For I see no contradiction in it, that the first eternal thinking being should, if he pleased, give to certain systems of created senseless matter, put together as he thinks fit, some degrees of sense, perception, and thought: though, as I think, I have proved, lib.
Strona 127 - Words are the Counters of wise men, and the Money of fools...