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... asserted that he wrote a treatise , entitled De Lucis Causa et Origine , in a letter to Isaac Vossius , with whom he had a dispute upon that subject ( printed at Amsterdam in 1663 , and criticising Vossius's work , De Natura et ...
... asserted that he wrote a treatise , entitled De Lucis Causa et Origine , in a letter to Isaac Vossius , with whom he had a dispute upon that subject ( printed at Amsterdam in 1663 , and criticising Vossius's work , De Natura et ...
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... assertion , that " his life has been a miracle of thirty years ; which to relate , were not history but a piece of poetry , and would sound like a fable . " There is , undoubtedly , a sense , in which all life is miraculous ; as it is ...
... assertion , that " his life has been a miracle of thirty years ; which to relate , were not history but a piece of poetry , and would sound like a fable . " There is , undoubtedly , a sense , in which all life is miraculous ; as it is ...
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... assertion attributed to Dr. Johnson : - " I remember the remark of Sir Thomas Browne , Do the Devils lie ? ' No ; for then hell could not subsist . " -Croker's Johnson , vol . iv . p . 152 . SUPPLEMENTARY MEMOIR . SCARCELY a trace ...
... assertion attributed to Dr. Johnson : - " I remember the remark of Sir Thomas Browne , Do the Devils lie ? ' No ; for then hell could not subsist . " -Croker's Johnson , vol . iv . p . 152 . SUPPLEMENTARY MEMOIR . SCARCELY a trace ...
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... asserting , on the one hand , his right to the free exercise of his understanding on those subjects of which it is the legitimate province of reason to judge ; but , on the other hand , submitting both intellect and feeling wherever the ...
... asserting , on the one hand , his right to the free exercise of his understanding on those subjects of which it is the legitimate province of reason to judge ; but , on the other hand , submitting both intellect and feeling wherever the ...
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... asserted his piety . The curious reader will find particulars of the controversy in Niceron , Bayle , Kippis , & c . " Dr. Aikin , in speaking of these m In his Zootomia , or Observations on the Present Manners of the English , 12mo ...
... asserted his piety . The curious reader will find particulars of the controversy in Niceron , Bayle , Kippis , & c . " Dr. Aikin , in speaking of these m In his Zootomia , or Observations on the Present Manners of the English , 12mo ...
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Page xxxviii - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions, hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Page 348 - And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Page 31 - Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, and saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down ; for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Page 433 - So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.