Moral and Religious SouvenirN.S. Simpkins, 1828 - 288 pages |
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... reason sud- denly departed from him . This is no physical improbability . Thousands of similar cases may be found in the annals of medical experience , and produced from the same cause ; pride and vain- glory . They then tell us , that ...
... reason sud- denly departed from him . This is no physical improbability . Thousands of similar cases may be found in the annals of medical experience , and produced from the same cause ; pride and vain- glory . They then tell us , that ...
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... reason , propriety , and force of every transient sarcasm and sly allusion , by which the christian testimony is depreciated and traduced , and by which , nevertheless , he may find his persuasion afterwards unsettled and perplexed ...
... reason , propriety , and force of every transient sarcasm and sly allusion , by which the christian testimony is depreciated and traduced , and by which , nevertheless , he may find his persuasion afterwards unsettled and perplexed ...
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... reason ; is as for- midable to a true religion as a false one ; to a well grounded faith as to a chimerical mythology , or fabulous tradition . Neither , let it be observed , is the crime or danger less , because impure ideas are ...
... reason ; is as for- midable to a true religion as a false one ; to a well grounded faith as to a chimerical mythology , or fabulous tradition . Neither , let it be observed , is the crime or danger less , because impure ideas are ...
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... reason , di- rects us to promote our own interest above all things . It can never be for the interest of a be- liever to do me mischief , because he is sure , upon the balance of accounts , to find himself a loser by it . On the ...
... reason , di- rects us to promote our own interest above all things . It can never be for the interest of a be- liever to do me mischief , because he is sure , upon the balance of accounts , to find himself a loser by it . On the ...
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... reason , and the host of mighty passions , but must it also wage unnatural war with those very re- finements and sensibilities of our nature , which owe to it their purest nourishment and noblest elevation ? It has done that for man ...
... reason , and the host of mighty passions , but must it also wage unnatural war with those very re- finements and sensibilities of our nature , which owe to it their purest nourishment and noblest elevation ? It has done that for man ...
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