The Works of Lord Bolingbroke: With a Life, Prepared Expressly for this Edition, Containing Additional Information Relative to His Personal and Public Character, Tom 4Carey and Hart, 1841 |
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... existence , but that are inconsistent with it : notwithstanding which , the fathers of the church spoke of him sometimes , in such terms , that to make out any sense in what they said , we must understand them to have thought him ...
... existence , but that are inconsistent with it : notwithstanding which , the fathers of the church spoke of him sometimes , in such terms , that to make out any sense in what they said , we must understand them to have thought him ...
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... existence of an all - perfect Being : and to be thus accused by men , who presume to maintain that they have other objects of knowledge , besides the existence of an all - perfect Being , which exist by the necessity of their own ...
... existence of an all - perfect Being : and to be thus accused by men , who presume to maintain that they have other objects of knowledge , besides the existence of an all - perfect Being , which exist by the necessity of their own ...
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... existence of all that he created . * What I have been led to say on this occasion makes it necessary to ex- plain myself a little more fully ; for though I dare not assert , like metaphysical divines of your and my communion , that the ...
... existence of all that he created . * What I have been led to say on this occasion makes it necessary to ex- plain myself a little more fully ; for though I dare not assert , like metaphysical divines of your and my communion , that the ...
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... existence of God . I do not believe that he meant to weaken this great truth by employing a sophism to prove it ; but I believe that the affectation of novelty led him into paralogism , or an undesigned sophism . He assumed that he had ...
... existence of God . I do not believe that he meant to weaken this great truth by employing a sophism to prove it ; but I believe that the affectation of novelty led him into paralogism , or an undesigned sophism . He assumed that he had ...
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... existence , yet he knows them all to be truths as well as the theist . He knows that they result from the nature of things . He pronounces them therefore immutable and eternal , as he conceives that nature to be ; and can take no side ...
... existence , yet he knows them all to be truths as well as the theist . He knows that they result from the nature of things . He pronounces them therefore immutable and eternal , as he conceives that nature to be ; and can take no side ...
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