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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... less unity , as the learned say . * As little grounds are there , in any part of the New Testament , even in the epistles of St. Paul , for that impudent analysis which school divines and others have presumed to make of the Deity when ...
... less unity , as the learned say . * As little grounds are there , in any part of the New Testament , even in the epistles of St. Paul , for that impudent analysis which school divines and others have presumed to make of the Deity when ...
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... less moderation , and not less ambition , than the heretic ; that he had the spirit of in- trigue , as much as Eusebius of Nicomedia ; and that he was one of those churchmen , whom pride and obstinacy of temper , under the name of zeal ...
... less moderation , and not less ambition , than the heretic ; that he had the spirit of in- trigue , as much as Eusebius of Nicomedia ; and that he was one of those churchmen , whom pride and obstinacy of temper , under the name of zeal ...
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... less than a God , even the Supreme God . This circumstance might encourage Alexander , the bishop of Alexandria , or rather his prompter Athanasius ; and Arius might think it a victory not to be soon defeated . He might think , that if ...
... less than a God , even the Supreme God . This circumstance might encourage Alexander , the bishop of Alexandria , or rather his prompter Athanasius ; and Arius might think it a victory not to be soon defeated . He might think , that if ...
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... less , yet this held out more of the marvellous : and the marvellous in matters of religion , that is presumed to be revealed , will impose and affect more than truth and reason . This was an advantage which the ablest of the fathers ...
... less , yet this held out more of the marvellous : and the marvellous in matters of religion , that is presumed to be revealed , will impose and affect more than truth and reason . This was an advantage which the ablest of the fathers ...
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... less ambitious , nor more virtuous probably , than they were : and the same might be presumed of other ecclesiastical orders that had flourished in the East . But in all these orders , there had been particular men , and sects of men ...
... less ambitious , nor more virtuous probably , than they were : and the same might be presumed of other ecclesiastical orders that had flourished in the East . But in all these orders , there had been particular men , and sects of men ...
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