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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... proved that the world had a beginning , on foundations of the highest probability tradition can give , he stops short likewise ; because , in the nature of things , we can have no other proof of the fact . Not so the divine . His system ...
... proved that the world had a beginning , on foundations of the highest probability tradition can give , he stops short likewise ; because , in the nature of things , we can have no other proof of the fact . Not so the divine . His system ...
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... prove the unity of the first cause . That some made them , at least very early , can scarce be doubted . So that the orthodox belief and polytheism might grow up together , though the latter might spread wider and faster than the former ...
... prove the unity of the first cause . That some made them , at least very early , can scarce be doubted . So that the orthodox belief and polytheism might grow up together , though the latter might spread wider and faster than the former ...
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... prove that there is one , any more than the general consent of numberless nations in acknowledging several proves that there are several . He answers the objection by saying , that philosophers and wise men , in every nation and in ...
... prove that there is one , any more than the general consent of numberless nations in acknowledging several proves that there are several . He answers the objection by saying , that philosophers and wise men , in every nation and in ...
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... prove it , some verses of Lucretius , finely written , but very little to the purpose , because of no authority in this case . 66 Si nulla fuit genitalis origo Terrarum et cæli , semperque eterna fuêre ; Cur supra bellum Thebanum , et ...
... prove it , some verses of Lucretius , finely written , but very little to the purpose , because of no authority in this case . 66 Si nulla fuit genitalis origo Terrarum et cæli , semperque eterna fuêre ; Cur supra bellum Thebanum , et ...
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... prove ; I mean , that there was a time , when every one of these nations began to be civilised . Neither of these arguments is of weight against the atheist who asserts the eternity of the world . But they give him an advan- tage , such ...
... prove ; I mean , that there was a time , when every one of these nations began to be civilised . Neither of these arguments is of weight against the atheist who asserts the eternity of the world . But they give him an advan- tage , such ...
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