The semi-sceptic; or, The common sense of religion considered |
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... Philosophers as to the Perfectibility of the Human Species - Instances of Improvement - The Testimonies of the Philosophers themselves - Con- clusion 332 . 370 THE SEMI - SCEPTIC ; OR , THE COMMON SENSE viii CONTENTS .
... Philosophers as to the Perfectibility of the Human Species - Instances of Improvement - The Testimonies of the Philosophers themselves - Con- clusion 332 . 370 THE SEMI - SCEPTIC ; OR , THE COMMON SENSE viii CONTENTS .
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... instance around us there , the eagerness of would - be persuaded minds to pursue every sha- dow of a reason that can fortify them against the constantly recurring dictates of nature and of conscience . They do not wait for facts till ...
... instance around us there , the eagerness of would - be persuaded minds to pursue every sha- dow of a reason that can fortify them against the constantly recurring dictates of nature and of conscience . They do not wait for facts till ...
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... instances where any hints of sceptical ideas are displayed , and it seems pretty well understood that any insinuation of a tendency contrary to religion in works treating of indifferent topics , would be held offensive to the feelings ...
... instances where any hints of sceptical ideas are displayed , and it seems pretty well understood that any insinuation of a tendency contrary to religion in works treating of indifferent topics , would be held offensive to the feelings ...
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... instances of the different ideas which men form of what is right and good . We are not to suppose it possible that a writer of the ingenuity and acuteness which D'Alembert really possessed , should mistake notions like these ...
... instances of the different ideas which men form of what is right and good . We are not to suppose it possible that a writer of the ingenuity and acuteness which D'Alembert really possessed , should mistake notions like these ...
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... instance , have no possible connexion with its real principles . What fair reasoner would charge the extravagancies of John of Munster - the exhibition of an auto- da - fé - the ambition of a Gregory or a Julius- or the rapacity of an ...
... instance , have no possible connexion with its real principles . What fair reasoner would charge the extravagancies of John of Munster - the exhibition of an auto- da - fé - the ambition of a Gregory or a Julius- or the rapacity of an ...
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Página 80 - Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily , therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Página 289 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Página 36 - And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
Página 267 - THAT which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled of the word of life ; (for the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and show unto you that eternal life which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us...
Página 290 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Página 151 - There wanted yet the master-work, the end Of all yet done; a creature, who, not prone • And brute as other creatures, but endued With sanctity of reason, might erect His stature, and upright with front serene Govern the rest, self-knowing; and from thence Magnanimous to correspond with Heaven...
Página 43 - Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man ? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me...
Página 37 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Página 322 - European friends, that the superstitious practices which deform the Hindoo religion have nothing to do with the pure spirit of its dictates!
Página 289 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so.