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... cause of common errors ; the erroneous disposition of the people . 16 • Chap . 4 . Of the more immediate causes of ... cause of error : viz . obstinate adherence unto antiquity Of other more immediate causes of error : viz . credulity ...
... cause of common errors ; the erroneous disposition of the people . 16 • Chap . 4 . Of the more immediate causes of ... cause of error : viz . obstinate adherence unto antiquity Of other more immediate causes of error : viz . credulity ...
Page xiv
... cause must be super- natural : but life , thus explained , whatever it may have of miracle , will have nothing of fable ; and , therefore , the author undoubtedly had regard to something , by which he imagined himself dis- tinguished ...
... cause must be super- natural : but life , thus explained , whatever it may have of miracle , will have nothing of fable ; and , therefore , the author undoubtedly had regard to something , by which he imagined himself dis- tinguished ...
Page xxv
... CAUSED THIS MONUMENT TO BE ERECTED . Besides his lady , who died in 1685 , he left a son and three daughters . Of the daughters nothing very remarkable is known ; but his son , Edward Browne , requires a particular mention . He was born ...
... CAUSED THIS MONUMENT TO BE ERECTED . Besides his lady , who died in 1685 , he left a son and three daughters . Of the daughters nothing very remarkable is known ; but his son , Edward Browne , requires a particular mention . He was born ...
Page xxviii
... cause . 66 They that knew no more of him than by the briskness of his writings , found themselves deceived in their expectation when they came in his company , noting the gravity and sobriety of his aspect and conversation ; so free ...
... cause . 66 They that knew no more of him than by the briskness of his writings , found themselves deceived in their expectation when they came in his company , noting the gravity and sobriety of his aspect and conversation ; so free ...
Page xxxiv
... cause less invidious , by showing numbers on his side : he will , therefore , not change his conduct , till he reforms his principles . But the zealot should recollect , that he is labouring , by this frequency of excommunication ...
... cause less invidious , by showing numbers on his side : he will , therefore , not change his conduct , till he reforms his principles . But the zealot should recollect , that he is labouring , by this frequency of excommunication ...
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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.