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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... proof of the fact . Not so the divine . His system drags him on . He attempts , most absurdly , to support , in the first case , a demonstrated truth by false arguments ; and , in the second , to make tradition vouch for VOL . III . - B ...
... proof of the fact . Not so the divine . His system drags him on . He attempts , most absurdly , to support , in the first case , a demonstrated truth by false arguments ; and , in the second , to make tradition vouch for VOL . III . - B ...
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... proof that this idea is innate in all men , or univer- sally proportioned to the conceptions of all men , and to deny that the almost universal consent of mankind , in the acknow- ledgment of several gods , is a proof of the contrary ...
... proof that this idea is innate in all men , or univer- sally proportioned to the conceptions of all men , and to deny that the almost universal consent of mankind , in the acknow- ledgment of several gods , is a proof of the contrary ...
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... proof that we have of the beginning of the world , let us grant , for argument's sake , that the most ancient traditions are the Mosaical , and that arts and sciences have not been invented more than four or five thousand years , or ...
... proof that we have of the beginning of the world , let us grant , for argument's sake , that the most ancient traditions are the Mosaical , and that arts and sciences have not been invented more than four or five thousand years , or ...
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... proof at all , instead of resting his proofs solely on the authority of uni- versal tradition : and into that of confounding traditions of opi- nion with traditions of fact . He insists not only on traditions which concur in affirming ...
... proof at all , instead of resting his proofs solely on the authority of uni- versal tradition : and into that of confounding traditions of opi- nion with traditions of fact . He insists not only on traditions which concur in affirming ...
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... proofs , which the archbishop brings to the begin- ning of the world . I will quote his own words , as they stand in Barbeyrac's translation ; for if I did not quote them , you would hardly believe that I make him say no more than he ...
... proofs , which the archbishop brings to the begin- ning of the world . I will quote his own words , as they stand in Barbeyrac's translation ; for if I did not quote them , you would hardly believe that I make him say no more than he ...
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