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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... preserve , to insist on particular traditions of a fact so complicated with circum- stances , that no tradition could preserve it . These circumstances might make the fact doubtful ; the fact will never make them . probable . Even that ...
... preserve , to insist on particular traditions of a fact so complicated with circum- stances , that no tradition could preserve it . These circumstances might make the fact doubtful ; the fact will never make them . probable . Even that ...
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... preserved . But his reasoning will not hold here neither ; for if these arts were ever known to the people , to whom they are now unknown , they may be totally lost , after having been once found : nay , they may have been found , lost ...
... preserved . But his reasoning will not hold here neither ; for if these arts were ever known to the people , to whom they are now unknown , they may be totally lost , after having been once found : nay , they may have been found , lost ...
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... preserve the truth of traditions , which must , for this ridiculous reason , have come down uncorrupted and unmixed . One can hardly imagine any thing so extravagant , and yet I can quote , from Abbadie , a way of reasoning that is more ...
... preserve the truth of traditions , which must , for this ridiculous reason , have come down uncorrupted and unmixed . One can hardly imagine any thing so extravagant , and yet I can quote , from Abbadie , a way of reasoning that is more ...
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... preserve them , and care is taken , in a good education , to destroy them . But the others are industriously re- newed , and the most superstitious credulity grows up along with We may laugh at Don Quixote , as long as we please , for ...
... preserve them , and care is taken , in a good education , to destroy them . But the others are industriously re- newed , and the most superstitious credulity grows up along with We may laugh at Don Quixote , as long as we please , for ...
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... , very readily , that these five books con- tain traditions of a very great antiquity , some of which were C * preserved and propagated by other nations , as well as A LETTER ON ONE OF ARCHBISHOP TILLOTSON'S SERMONS . 21.
... , very readily , that these five books con- tain traditions of a very great antiquity , some of which were C * preserved and propagated by other nations , as well as A LETTER ON ONE OF ARCHBISHOP TILLOTSON'S SERMONS . 21.
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