The Works of Lord Bolingbroke: With a Life, Prepared Expressly for this Edition, Containing Additional Information Relative to His Personal and Public Character, Band 3Carey and Hart, 1841 |
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... writings how , and how long ago , the world was created . If we bring a Chinese into the scene , he will assure us that the world had a beginning ; be- cause the cycles , of three - score years each , in the chronological tables of his ...
... writings how , and how long ago , the world was created . If we bring a Chinese into the scene , he will assure us that the world had a beginning ; be- cause the cycles , of three - score years each , in the chronological tables of his ...
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... writings ; and having refuted these , he may triumph , as if he had refuted all the rest , which is a practice very common among his adversaries the divines . If the divine had not more at heart to establish the credit of Jewish ...
... writings ; and having refuted these , he may triumph , as if he had refuted all the rest , which is a practice very common among his adversaries the divines . If the divine had not more at heart to establish the credit of Jewish ...
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... writings has never been contested by any of them , as Josephus maintains . " This is my text . I shall make some few remarks upon it , and this general remark in the first place . It has been said , truly enough , that the court of Rome ...
... writings has never been contested by any of them , as Josephus maintains . " This is my text . I shall make some few remarks upon it , and this general remark in the first place . It has been said , truly enough , that the court of Rome ...
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... writings , except to professed romances , nor even always to them . It was the pride of the Jews to believe themselves , and to make others believe if they could , not only that their nation was the elect people of God , but that it was ...
... writings , except to professed romances , nor even always to them . It was the pride of the Jews to believe themselves , and to make others believe if they could , not only that their nation was the elect people of God , but that it was ...
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... writings afford no historical evidence . Our archbishop assures us , that he could have added to the antiquity of this historian certain characters of a divine autho- rity , and have supported them by reasons which would give great ...
... writings afford no historical evidence . Our archbishop assures us , that he could have added to the antiquity of this historian certain characters of a divine autho- rity , and have supported them by reasons which would give great ...
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Seite 335 - Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things, ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Seite 431 - But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God . 4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.
Seite 126 - For example, does it not require some pains and skill to form the general idea of a triangle ? (which is yet none of the most abstract comprehensive and difficult) ; for it must be neither oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon, but all and none of these at once.
Seite 28 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, So that I come again to my father's house in peace ; then shall the Lord be my God : and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house : and of all that thou shalt give me, I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Seite 174 - ... years continued us in such a state, can and will restore us to the like state of sensibility in another world, and make us capable there to receive the retribution he has designed to men according to their doings in this life.
Seite 184 - That he should be in earnest it is hard to conceive ; since any reasons of doubt •which he might have in this case would have been reasons of doubt in the case of other men, who may give more, but cannot give more evident, signs...
Seite 463 - In principio erat Verbum et Verbum erat apud Deum ; et Deus erat Verbum : hoc erat in principio apud Deum.
Seite 174 - ... since we know not wherein thinking consists, nor to what sort of substances the Almighty has been pleased to give that power, which cannot be in any created being, but merely by the good pleasure and bounty of the Creator. For I see no contradiction in it, that the first eternal thinking being should, if he pleased, give to certain systems of created senseless matter, put together as he thinks fit, some degrees of sense, perception, and thought: though, as I think, I have proved, lib.
Seite 426 - These questions, and some others of the same kind, will not be easily answered, unless it be by men who are never at a loss to account for the absurdities that they impute to the divine conduct, by supposing it directed according to such partialities as are proportioned to the lowness of their minds: but the pertness, not to say the impudence, of these men deserving no regard, we must seek another solution of the difficulty, and endeavor to find what it was that distinguished St. Paul in this respect...
Seite 474 - Saviour taught, all this had been avoided; and supposing Christianity to have been purely a human invention, it had been the most amiable and the most useful invention that was ever imposed on mankind for their good.